Here at the Fortress of Ineptitude on Friday night, Andrea and I were fast asleep when our phones began bleating with a blaring and insistent alarm.
What the hell is going on?
We checked our phones and saw this:
Well, nice of the Greensboro PD to let us know the danger was over and we can go back to sleep.
...
...
Wait! What Danger?
Where the hell is Oakswest anyway?
OK, so elsewhere in Greensboro, some shit was going down on Creekwood Drive in the Oakswest neighborhood which is nowhere near the Fortress of Ineptitude.
Apparently a family disturbance was going off the rails big time, necessitating the presence of police, firefighters and EMTs.
An alert was sent out to the residents of the Oakswest community to chill, stay in their homes and away from the scene of the disturbance on Creekwood Drive.
Eventually, everyone got a handle on whatever was going down on Creekwood which took a very tragic turn. It seems the horrible incident at the home ended with a murder-suicide.
Meanwhile....
Someone was tasked with sending all clear message out to the residents of the Oakswest community.
Except...
That someone hit the wrong button or something because....
The message went out to the whole damn county!
The Greensboro PD issued an apology....
Well, fuck their apology!
People were going online to complain about it!
It scared the shit outta me, mainly because it almost woke my kid up. A toddler awaken at 2:00AM, I would have politely went and dropped him off at the GPD. You woke him, now he’s your problem!
Yeah WTH was that about? Violently woke my me and my wife up.
When you have a system that can go out to tens of thousands of people you double check that shit before pressing the button. Mistakes on this scale are unacceptable and it suggests whoever sent the alert doesn't appreciate the number of people this could affect
Now they’re on their Facebook page telling people to “chill” about it and that it was a mistake lol. Like no you scared the crap out of everyone and now I can’t fall back asleep ðŸ˜
Others were more sanguine about it.
Well, all of y’all would be fired too if you’ve never made a mistake in your life. Oh wait you totally have made a mistake before you just don’t have a meaningful job that impacted everybody. It’s OK to make a mistake. Move on in life. You’ll be OK.
I’m just going to turn off all my emergency alerts. I’m never going to rescue an abducted child and if I’m sleeping, let whatever emergency that’s happening, happen. I’m asleep. I clearly don’t give a fuck.
It woke me up and I laughed and went back to sleep. Sometimes things happen.
Which was pretty much our reaction here at the Fortress.
I rolled back over to go back to sleep but not before checking my phone for any breaking news.
What? Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress?!?
Well, that merits some comment.
In another blog post.
Later, dudes!
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