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Originally Posted by rousseau
It scared the shit out of me the first time it happened. It was about 3 am, and it sounded like an alarm for something very, very serious: carbon monoxide overload, mass cyber attack, impending nuclear armageddon. When I finally figured out that it was my fugging cell phone that was going off with klaxons and that it was an alarm for a suspected kidnapping report in Sudbury or wherever it was, I got very angry and said many bad words.
But you can't turn them off on an Android phone. Sigh.
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Lol. Reading this thread, this seems to be Ontario's alert system in a nutshell: alarms befitting imminent nuclear armageddon, at 3 am, to inform you of an abducted kid 1,500 kilometers away.
Everyone's stories about it match perfectly!