No Kafka Error when no Server

[Joe San]

Is this strange or wierd? I had no Kafka or Zookeeper running on my local
machine and I was expecting an exception, but for some strange reason, I do
not see any errors:

try {
  logger.info(s"kafka producer obtained is ${producer}")
  producer.send(
    new ProducerRecord[String, String](producerConfig.topic, jsonMessage)
  )
} catch {
  case x: Throwable => logger.error(s"shit happened ******* ${x.getMessage}")
}