The Herald Bulletin, Anderson, Indiana

Did anyone else notice something odd on Saturday? At about 11 a.m.?

The warning sirens went off. The sirens that usually go off at noon.

An hour later.

Now, a glitch like this might be explainable by factoring in the annual expiration of daylight-saving time.

Except that, as far as Uncle Rod can surmise, the sirens would STILL be set to go off at noon. So even if the clocks did "fall back" to 11 a.m., the only way they would've gone off at that time would be if someone rang them, personally, using a clock set to the wrong time.

Regardless, such a mistake isn't just odd or embarrassing. Sounding a siren at the wrong time might make some citizens think that an emergency was occurring. (One reader did actually call the newsroom Saturday night to report that he also heard the siren.)

So why did the sirens go off prematurely? We may never know.

Although Anderson IS an older city. Sometimes these things happen ...