People really complained!

[laterbloomer]

There are things that annoy me but I realise I'm being petty and selfish so I keep my mouth shut. Am I the only one with this kind of awareness?

If we ever find ourselves concerned about police overreactions, one would think it would involve invasive searches of homes or vehicles not whether our cell phones buzzed and woke us late in the evening.

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[Tennesseer]

If you don't want your phones going off at night, turn them off.  Real simple.

[laterbloomer]

Feb 16, 2019 17:17:16 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

If you don't want your phones going off at night, turn them off.  Real simple.

No, they want people in their own lives to be able to reach them in the middle of the night. They just don't want to be disturbed by anyone else's misfortune.

[laterbloomer]

They ended up being too late to save this young girl, but they found her because of a tip from the Amber Alert.

[Tennesseer]

Feb 16, 2019 17:21:47 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

They ended up being too late to save this young girl, but they found her because of a tip from the Amber Alert.

I read they found her. Sad. Parents can often be the monsters who live under our beds.

[TheOtherMe]

I have notifications turned off on my phone at night.  

My family can get through to me but the alerts are turned off at that time.

[wyouser]

There are certain situations that arise here where the PD will robo call everyone in town. DW gets called whenever something trips the security system at the country club. Then too, the siren system will go off with different sets of wailing wake up noise depending upon whether we have a tornado warning, fire alarm, escaped prisoner, or some other kind of toxic disaster due to a rail or refinery mishap. Although the noisiest middle of the night , raise you from the dead (sleep) incident I can recall from 45 years living in the same house was the night the caboose on a coal train snapped it's axle and proceeded to cut every tie between the rails in half for the 1 1/4 miles it took for the train to stop.

[thyme4change]

Feb 16, 2019 17:17:16 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

If you don't want your phones going off at night, turn them off.  Real simple.

Some people use their phones as their alarm, or they play music or white noise from their phone.

[billisonboard]

Feb 16, 2019 20:08:40 GMT -5 wyouser said:

... Although the noisiest middle of the night , raise you from the dead (sleep) incident I can recall from 45 years living in the same house was the night the caboose on a coal train snapped it's axle and proceeded to cut every tie between the rails in half for the 1 1/4 miles it took for the train to stop.

Mine wasn't middle of the night. Early in the morning I was just trying to wake up in my cot on a small wooden minesweeper off the coast of California when the alarm went off. I remember thinking "That isn't the fire alarm. It isn't general quarters. What is that one? Oh yeah, that is the collision alarm. Weird". Dense fog - we were headed up the coast - the officer on deck saw an ocean freighter heading out to Hawaii at the last minute and turned us out of its path - keeping it from hitting us mid-ship (about where my bunk was located.

[sesfw]

Ouch ……….. glad the collision was averted.

That's enough to give nightmares for a while.

Glad you are with us ………. and your shipmates safe

[kadee79]

The only alerts I allow on my phone are weather alerts.  I want to know if a tornado is going to hit!