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Breaking News: We Screwed Up

We're human, and we sometimes make mistakes. Technology isn't human, but sometimes it errs, too.

Technology is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?

Yes – except when something goes haywire and readers end up with multiple news alerts in their inboxes. That’s what happened Tuesday when we sent out a news alert to our Oakland County Patch sites.

Some Patch readers got the same alert, gulp, six times.

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We’re sorry. We’re sorry. We’re sorry. We’re sorry. We’re Sorry. And, yes, we’re sorry.

Our engineers have resolved the problem. Thanks for understanding.

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