Used correctly, voice broadcasting is a powerful life-saving technology. Automated telephone alert systems allow authorities to contact thousands, or even tens of thousands in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, voice broadcasting can be an annoyance to folks who receive erroneous calls. When’s the last time you ticked off 20,000 folks with the push of a button? Today’s installment of telephone technology gone awry features an ill-timed voice broadcast from Ann Arbor, Michigan …
As told by WZZM 13 News …
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Somebody punched the wrong buttons on Ann Arbor’s Code Red emergency notification system … sending out a call to locate a missing senior citizen, after the 94-year-old Alzheimer’s victim wandered off, presumably without a medical alert system.
Rather than send the voice broadcast message out to the immediately surrounding neighborhood, the well-meaning employee blasted over twenty thousand homes with the distress call, as the song goes, just around midnight.
Suffice to say, the late night voice broadcast upset more than a few residents. Thankfully, the AWOL senior was located within half an hour… before enciting an angry yet sleepless mob …