Amber alert madness
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
We have that here in Sydney. Australia, and missing person alerts.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Oh dear. It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through. I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself. When we were in L.A. last week someone "thought she smelled smoke" and pulled the hotel fire alarm at 04:00 one morning. :mad:
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
They broadcast this in the entire state?!? I think we have them only in the specific area/county of the emergency.
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
soon
3PM this Sunday for the test. Hopefully slightly less chance of being woken up at that time! :laugh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
THe UK government plan to force this on us soon. It's nice to know they have nothing important to work on.
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They broadcast this in the entire state?!? I think we have them only in the specific area/county of the emergency.
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
That's the reason they did it at 4 - most are in the bed still :-)
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I've disabled emergency notifications
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've disabled emergency notifications
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Can't disable it? I can turn off all of these with the exception of 'Presidential Alerts', like I wanna see those X| .
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Can't disable it? I can turn off all of these with the exception of 'Presidential Alerts', like I wanna see those X| .
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy. We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
at 80 on the motorway
I assume you mean 80kph - you wouldn't want to be seen encouraging illegal behaviour, after all. :laugh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy. We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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In Florida we only really need them when a hurricane is imminent.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I power my phone off during sleeping hours. Making oneself accessible to notifications 24/7 is nonsensical.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I power my phone off during sleeping hours. Making oneself accessible to notifications 24/7 is nonsensical.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
