UK users did you get your government warning siren?

[purplepoppy]

Apparently across the uk today the government is testing a warning system that will send a siren and a message to your phone. Kind of like the "duck and cover" messages of the olden days.

So two questions
have you had a siren today
What danger to life message should it be? Escaped tiger, zombies, covid maskless man?

[electromagnetic]

I got nothing. But I’m currently on vacation in Wales so I may have missed it whole in a no service zone.

[goaded]

But you repeat yourself! (Wales, no service zone).

[purplepoppy]

In Wales WiFi stands for where is fucking internet

[electromagnetic]

🤣🤣

[goaded]

"Duck and cover" was the American one, the UK had "Protect and Survive", which was more like "don't clog the roads, and die somewhere we can easily pick up the bodies".

[Lliam]

Godzilla, with Putin believed to be riding in it's back, has been spotted heading toward the English coast.

[Jessica405]

None of us 5 have heard a peep! No sirens, no messages, nowt!

It is probably to warn us Boris is coming to town, giving us time to emigrate.

[ohshee]

Well there's only one or two scenarios that would be happening for them to do that

[Kaneki05]

The government cannot even call me when they said they would Nvm schedule danger to life message. We would all be dead before it got to us, then after they would say "We tried to contact you".

[ChrisMaster69]

got to be Zombies or escaped rabid ferrets,

I never got mine, however I am on different alert thing for active reservist stuff lol

[2ndTryatThis]

We use those in the USA for missing children and they usually send a description of suspected vehicles, license plates, etc.. it works

[Red_Arrow]

I have been all over the USA and sirens are never used for those. Electronic signs on the highways ands radio announcements instead.

[2ndTryatThis]

@Red_Arrow it’s called an amber alert. They happen a lot in California

[Red_Arrow]

The signs and radio announcements are amber alerts. Not accompanied by sirens here. And I lived many years in California, both San Diego, and the SF Bay area, and we never had sirens. Must be new.

[2ndTryatThis]

@Red_Arrow nooo.. phone sirens..

[Bean2thousand]

Funny, we did get one in America. Said something like 'Operation Fake British Siren is underway.'

[purplepoppy]

According to one newspaper it'll inform you if there's been a huge explosion close to you. That's handy because they're easy to miss

[Bean2thousand]

It's too bad you can't customize it. I would want to listen to Metallica if there were huge explosions in my neighborhood.

[Bean2thousand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom3gf57Yw

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a socialist thing in your country, mate.

[InfobotLives]

Lmao, we can't afford a siren 🙄

[karaspara]

I got nothing feel really let down

[ToastyOats]

Danger! Stupid people in government run amok.

[jimmy2]

Oh my is it that bad there