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The
Four Minute Warning is a sounding of sirens in the United Kingdom to
warn of a nuclear attack four minutes before impact. Many sirens were
dismantled at the end of the Cold War but most cities still have them.
I
came across some forums on the internet where people say what they would
do in the event of the Four Minute Warning:
"I
would light up my one and only gen-u-ine cuban cigar (which I am saving
for a life changing occasion and I guess this would count as one) then
take me place in my deckchair in the front lawn and await the impending
doom."
"I'd
take the bike out and wring the guts out of it after first ingesting
the entire content of both drinks cabinet and medicine chest. then find
out that RV's pigeon has set it off accidently.."
"I
live in a tenement. Due to having downstairs neighbours I have never
been able to turn my Hi Fi system more than a quarter of the way up
(borderline police calling volume) So guess what I would do if the nuclear
warheads started dropping? Yeah you guessed right that Marantz PM 4200
amplifier is going all the way up to to the halfpast six postion! Some
"badass rock n roll" from the Soledad Brothers would do the trick nicely
before the gigantic nuclear shockwave scattered my atoms around a 50
mile radius."
"The
"telephone prefence service" can cut off about 95% of britain`s
phones in a few seconds to allow the system to cope in a attack or emergncy
situation. It has been used in some cases Hungerford for example. Also
mobile phones have the same style system which is mainly used in disaster
sitations as they don`t want loads of people saying the same thing cloging
up the system. BTW.. If you suspect that the above has happened use
a call box these are catgory 1 and are not cut off..."
"The
UK telephone preference service (also know as one2one! Allegedly) allows
emergency services to use the phones. I must find out about this as
it sounds like great fun. Ms Lumley I am sure does the gig. Does she
get royalties?"
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