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Imagine a million people buy these and take them seriously. One day they all have a false positive, how many crimes are committed?
by robonerd 4y ago
Imagine a million people buy these and take them seriously. One day they all have a false positive, how many crimes are committed?
- jvanderbot 4y agoWhen an "Incoming nuclear ICBM attack" alarm went off in Hawaii, there was no public hysteria and no crimes were committed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler... Edit: Remove "Nobody panicked" as that does seem very unlikely.
- sodality2 4y ago> nobody panicked That's definitely false, I know people who panicked. Not sure about the crimes though. But plenty of people genuinely believed they were spending their last moments alive.
- PaulHoule 4y agoThere's a genre of Youtube video where somebody goes to visit relatives and pops a USB stick into into the TV with a fake Emergency Broadcast System message.
- SamBam 4y agoCould you imagine thinking it's your last few minutes on Earth, and deciding to spend them committing a crime? I don't understand why people always imagine other people would do this.
- dylan604 4y agoBecause we've all seen TV
- sodality2 4y agoFor some, the only thing stopping them from committing crimes is the threat of punishment. In a situation like that, that element no longer exists. I don't imagine it'll be many, though.
- effingwewt 4y agoNot that hard to imagine. Some kid dreams about his dream car, finds out it's all ending and decides he's going out in a Ferrari happy. In a world ending event none of us really knows how we'd react. We only know how we'd like to think we'd handle it.
- tresqotheq 4y agoYea, every body has a plan until they get punched in the face..
- ASalazarMX 4y agoSome people don't commit crimes because they fear punishment, and end-of-the-world scenario would free them of consequences. I'm over 50, so I would try to receive the end in peace with as much of my family as possible, but 30 years ago I might have taken the car and race on the highway because it's a fun way to go.
- jvanderbot 4y agoYou're right. I was thinking "public riots / hysteria" but typing "nobody panicked" foolishly.
- hug 4y agoThe article you linked contains the literal quote "fear and panic quickly spread through the residents of Hawaii", so I'm not sure why you linked it in support of the statement "nobody panicked".
- dylan604 4y agoman, you're not supposed to read the links. that's totally playing unfairly
- jvanderbot 4y agoAppropriately chided! I edited OP.
- cyounkins 4y agoNobody panicked? I panicked just reading the freaking article!
- tailspin2019 4y agoI believe the crime part but even your linked article describes the panic! > Fear and panic quickly spread through the residents of Hawaii.
- gerdesj 4y agoI lived in West Germany for about 10 years back in the 19[78]0s as a British Army brat. Even back then, far more people died in RTAs or of smoking fags than ever were associated with exploding thingies. My dad was in EOD - RAOC 321 Coy (lol and bang!) before he did rather large logistics for the entire UK military, eventually as a full Col. His jumper had a flaming grenade on one sleeve and the other had a para jump badge on it. My hero. Oh, ICBM etc: We had bomb threats roughly weekly. At age six or seven, I knew how to frisk a car for bombs. Now I'm 52.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoI suppose that's because the deadline is too soon. If they knew the world was going to end in a week, some people would lose any incentive to behave since the consequences would be the same for everyone. Even if the world didn't end, who is going to prosecute thousands of rioters?