Government alert?!?!

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Omg? First use of the government phone alerts, i think??

Yeah, was driving and listening to a podcast and the abrupt change in subject and time was a bit startling. Does she have to sound quite so horror movie-ish? I think if I'd been driving in silence or maybe even just listening to music it might have startled / distracted me to the extent of it increasing the chance of an accident... As it was I spent a moment thinking it was a poorly-edited segue into an ad and then caught on...

People in our locality are randomly lighting fires on footpaths. Apparently it’s a TikTok thing

WTAF???? 😡

Well I am just glad it worked lol. All previous times my phones been too old.

Nobody in my household got the alert

@Forfogsake oh my goodness, some people can be so stupid!!

The siren needs to go. I was at a live recording of an event with an audience and the majority of the audience had their phones on silent, but it still went off. No option on iPhone to get the alert but no siren, so I’ve turned it off completely, which pretty much defeats the point, no?

Why did you turn your cooker off? Is it in your garden?

Earlier this afternoon DHs phone wouldn't connect to the internet. Were v rural and need to use it for calls etc. So muggins is sitting there transferring his stuff to the spare phone cos he has v important cricket stuff this weekend and can't possibly be without his WhatsApp group!! The govt thingy went off only on the phone that supposedly couldn't connect to he internet. Mine and his new one got nowt. Oh and he came running cos he thought it was a cricket msg. 😅

😂😂😂😂

Having been in France - good on the govt. Yea a surprise but glad we got it as we are really rural with no signal 😳 so at least we get them!

I disagree. It is an emergency situation.

Why so scared…!? Where I live we get these a couple pf times a month, nearby car accidents, fires etc. We’ve had the app for years, it’s excellent.

Or if this is a brand new thing in the UK i can understand.

Stupid time for it to go off and why did I get it three times on my phone. Alerts now switched off

No, I feel the same.

It should be for “immediate risk to life” situations only. Using it for things like “don’t start a fire” just makes people mutter “FFS”, potentially disable the alerts and then possibly miss something really important.

"heart attack"
"Shitting myself"
"Lost ten years of my life"

FFS get a fucking grip. It made you jump, it didnt give you are heart attack or make you shit yourself.

"I dont need it"
"I have common sense" (do you?)
"Why do we need to tell people not to do stupid things?"

Think it through..........
The world is full of fuckwits, its full of thoughtless, stupid, selfish tossers who DO need reminding. So a mild jump at a noise on your phone that might stop such tossers causing loss of life and/or property is worth it. If you can't see that then you are on the same intellectual level as the morons who need reminding.

You don't have much contact with the general public do you. Yes, there are some absolute stupid idiots who walk amongst us. I have just had to get my washing in because there is a strong smell of bonfire, FGS.

Yes, the majority of normal people understand the risk but I think it is a good use of the system because it will reach people, especially youngsters, who don't watch the news or read newspapers.

There is one theory that the fire in Stourbridge may have been started by those celebrating A Level results with BBQs.

I was terrified! I do think the emergency alerts have been used before though. I think they were used back when we had a load of floods in 2023.

Only stupid people.

Been loads round our way recently, notably at 2am this week.

Poor dog nearly had heart failure!

The amount of people having a strop and turning them off just proves how little common sense is out there.

Well maybe if it gets through to 1 person with no common sense it might save a couple of lives or a few thousand acres of land.

I wasn’t too bothered. It was all in Welsh and I just thought that if it was that important, they’d have sent both languages at the same time. Either that or they thought I was robust enough to fend for myself 😅.

This.

Its a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted though! Sending out the message 3 weeks ago would have been more sensible

Darwinism in action!