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UK emergency alert system causes more chaos after it goes off again in the middle of the night

Isaac Crowson
The Sun
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:44 UTC

THE emergency phone alert system caused more chaos yesterday when it went off again in the early hours.Some users were woken up in a panic while others got a fright on their Monday morning commute.

It came despite government assurances the test would only sound at 3pm on Sunday.

Danny Wisniewski, of Slough, Berks, was woken by the alert at 2.22am.

He said: "It scared the life out of myself and my wife as we were fast asleep and wondered what was going on.

"It was the same alert I had on Sunday."

Plumber Mark Peters, 54, of Derby, got the alert at 8am.

He said: "It doesn't bode well if this is supposed to be keeping us safe and alert."

Sources suggested the problem was caused by mobile phone masts continuing to broadcast the message after the end of the test.

The Cabinet Office said it is reviewing the results of the UK-wide test after a "very small proportion" of mobiles did not get Sunday's alert.

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Lemuel Gulliver · 2023-04-28T03:10:28Z

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country . - Hermann Goering

Ethan · 2023-04-28T04:15:01Z

Because they just delivered their uranium ammunition to Ukraine, they need a diversion

Baybars · 2023-04-28T04:18:23Z

Keep it up. Nobody will believe the alerts by the time a real emergency happens.

Or, is that the plan?

codis · 2023-04-28T08:39:53Z

OMG, the government claiming to provide a service to "warn of life-threatening events" nearby.

Have they forgot the last life-threatening event, which they caused themselves, and deliberately ?

Questioneverything · 2023-04-28T12:41:15Z

They need more fear in their diets it seems..

Gator ·

Questioneverything

· 2023-04-28T16:40:00Z

Artex · 2023-04-28T13:48:28Z

Sources suggested the problem was caused by mobile phone masts continuing to broadcast the message after the end of the test.

That's not how antennas work. If the message packets were still being broadcast long after the test, then it suggests a network problem. An antenna/mast is dumb. It is not a switch or a router (which contain logic). This is either a problem with the software used to broadcast, a very serious problem with the emergency broadcasting network, human error, or done on purpose and all the excuses a lie.

When you're talking about message packets, it's not like flotsam in a stream that might release a bit at a time. If there's packet being blocked, then when the block is cleared, they all come at once. Not hours apart. And all other traffic on that network would experience the same thing. It honestly sounds like an spanning-tree or broadcast storm, which is a serious network issue that's not actually hard to fix. But while it's occurring, the network is more or less unreliable and useless. In that case, then the traffic loops back on itself and clogs the network, and it could explain the different times people received the alerts.

But for that to go unrecognized (and unacknowledged) almost 24 hours later should have you questioning the qualifications of the people running that network.

The source suggesting masts sounds like someone who had this explained to them but has such little comprehension of the issue that they reinterpreted it and told it wrong to the public.

Demore · 2023-04-28T13:57:41Z

Artex '' An antenna/mast is dumb.''

That's what I thought, the story doesn't make sense. An antenna is a relay of sorts. No input no transmission. ''They'' really do think all people are as dumb as s**t.

Robotech · 2023-04-28T14:06:58Z

Artex Very true. That's an outright lie and only those that have any knowledge of Telecom will know the truth. They are conditioning us so that this becomes normal to the regular population. Getting us ready for the next "big event."

Artex · 2023-04-28T14:29:27Z

Robotech Try to remember that reporters aren't experts in anything. They repeat what they are told, and if they don't know enough to ask for clarification, this is the kind of garbage that ends up reported. There's a lot of fuckery in the media and government, but also, "don't attribute to evil what can be explained by stupidity."

JTF Truth · 2023-04-28T16:42:43Z

Artex or said what they were told to say.

Lemuel Gulliver · 2023-04-29T03:49:03Z

Artex Demore JTF Truth Robotech This simply illustrates the extent of the contempt with which they view us "unwashed masses." Their arrogance is insufferable. May their balls catch a nasty disease and fall off.

Artex · 2023-05-01T14:15:56Z

Lemuel Gulliver May their balls catch on a hook while they are pulled in the opposite direction.

ReRan · 2023-05-02T01:28:26Z

Artex Now, that's more like it!

TBoris · 2023-05-02T01:38:35Z

Artex Not only that but it was incredibly funny!

JTF Truth · 2023-05-02T17:40:55Z

Lemuel Gulliver What most people have forgotten in their fear. There are thousands of times more of us, than the few making the edicts.

Any form of government never likes to talk about that plain and simple fact. We the people can pull the rug out from any of them anytime we want. To stop us from doing that, they keep us distracted with lies, fear, BS, etc. The big lie being, we do need them to lead us, when we don't.

The first king was an alpha male bully and we've been oppressed ever since.

TBoris · 2023-04-28T15:01:33Z

"cow bells"...Run to your slave phone for what to do next...

JTF Truth · 2023-04-28T15:09:24Z

I've turned mine off. Problem solved.

ReRan · 2023-04-28T16:54:58Z

"government assurances the test would only sound at 3pm on Sunday."

It was 3pm somewhere. Did they specify?

JTF Truth ·

ReRan

· 2023-04-28T17:18:43Z

Lemuel Gulliver ·

ReRan

· 2023-04-29T03:52:28Z

Jason · 2023-04-29T01:33:04Z

These emergency texts are a joke.

Recently in Napier nz. Cyclone gabriel flooded the area i was working in. By the time i got the emergency text to evacuate i was already surrounded by deep water. Had to be rescued by boat.

Below is the text.

Emergency alert

Tue, Feb 14, 10:16 am

Hawkes Bay Civil Defence advise

residents of Taradale & those

residents on the south side of the

Tutaekuri River to evacuate to higher

ground immediately.

Flood protection systems on the

Tutaekuri river are failing to contain

water. Go immediately and take grab

bags and animals and get to high

ground asap

For further information refer to Civil

Defence or local radio stations

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