Did your phone go off ?

[robbie]

Not sure if the Alarm was to do with that though?
Most of my neighbours are too ugly to have children

There's plenty round here like that. You see them with 2 kids and think surely they're twins because no one would tup then twice!!!!!!

 

[Rich_ard]

And if your neighbour’s child is abducted, you don’t care?

Who decides the level of emergency?

 

[Rich_ard]

I very much doubt it as they can’t find people as it is police and judges are more interested in river crimes.

We might get constant alerts as to the events of the river lugg

 

[Dry Rot]

gov,uk has just announced that there has been a nuclear attack which is why we all got the alert.

We are all dead, and this is heaven. Make the best of it because it doesn't get any better.

 

[essex man]

This alert was done because the government think it will be popular.
It's a "we're all in it together" thing, thankfully easy to turn off beforehand and forever.

 

[Cowabunga]

15.50 and mine has not gone off. It is in my pocket and with a great signal through the house ultra fast fibre wi-fi . No notification of it either.

 

[Kidds]

That’s what I’ve seen the alert system used for elsewhere - rapid messaging to a geographic area for abductions and escaped prisoners.

It’s already used like that in other places.

Firstly I do not trust whoever is in charge of it to be competent enough for it to be of any use to anyone, nor do I trust them not to use it for other self serving purposes such as making the threats that they do about TV licenses for example.
Secondly abductions, escaped prisoners, flash floods, earthquakes, forest fires etc etc are not something that ever happens here never mind often enough to warrant an alert system to warn you of such things. It will only ever be like the Road Closed signs everywhere when the road isn't even closed, the 40mph warnings on motorways for non existent debris, accidents, workers in road etc. Most often they are false alerts and in a short space of time are universally ignored.

I can only think that one of Boris's mates has had him convince someone the country needs to invest billions in such a thing and Boris gets a cut/favour/bung etc out of the deal. Whatever the reason it's a complete waste of time and stop using the "abducted neighbours children" as a reason because for the most part that would be a cause for celebration.

 

[Lofty1984]

Does it go off if a sheep dies on a footpath on a Sunday?

Only yours after you’ve been hounded on fb obviously

 

[Kidds]

p.s. 6 phones in this house and not one has gone off, shows how effective it is already.

 

[Tarw Coch]

There's plenty round here like that. You see them with 2 kids and think surely they're twins because no one would tup then twice!!!!!!

Much of a drink problem in your area?

 

[faircomment]

My phone vibrated as I was ratching around under the sprayer, I thought who the hell is that calling me now……
No notifications or messages, my phone just vibrated (had air pods in to )

 

[Highland Mule]

and stop using the "abducted neighbours children" as a reason because for the most part that would be a cause for celebration.

How disappointing to read this, whether written in jest or not.

Worth pondering Who is my neighbour ?

 

[Tarw Coch]

stop using the "abducted neighbours children" as a reason because for the most part that would be a cause for celebration.

I don’t think we should make light of missing kids, I ain’t got children but can well believe it would be any parents worst nightmare.
That said I have more faith in local communities passing the word around than a central government alert.

 

[Netherfield]

There's plenty round here like that. You see them with 2 kids and think surely they're twins because no one would tup then twice!!!!!!

Some of them tups aren't exactly pedigree though.

 

[Highland Mule]

I don’t think we should make light of missing kids, I ain’t got children but can well believe it would be any parents worst nightmare.
That said I have more faith in local communities passing the word around than a central government alert.

Thank you, that's the point I was trying to make. Local communities can't get the word out to everyone within 10/15/20 miles though, certainly not as quickly as electrons and radio waves can.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Thank you, that's the point I was trying to make. Local communities can't get the word out to everyone within 10/15/20 miles though, certainly not as quickly as electrons and radio waves can.

Yet if the opinions expressed on this forum are typical of the wider population, and I suspect they are, many will ignore the alerts and others will have switched them off somehow, I’m sure I’ve seen reference on here to the fact it can be done

 

[Kidds]

I am a parent and grandparent, of course if it genuinely happened to my neighbours I would be horrified but I am comfortable joking about it because it just doesn't.
It is yet another of these "what if" scenarios that are designed purely to put you in fear of something that almost 100% of the time simply does not happen. There is nothing that warrants such a system being put in place.
In the last 60 years I can not think of a single abduction, escaped prisoner, flood, fire, nuclear attack etc etc happening locally. Maybe that's why the system seems not to have been turned on around here as there is absolutely no need for it.

 

[warksfarmer]

Neither of mine did , oh well

Opted out days ago. We did it across 6 phones.

 

[Tamar]

When you hear the air attack warning.........you and your family must abandon no till farming, and revert to proper plough based agriculture......

Why ? To plough the radiation into the ground........ or to release carbon to counter act said radiation !?!

 

[robbie]

Much of a drink problem in your area?

No that's what makes it worse!!!!