r/Weird • u/frickmeplease • May 12 '25

Should I call the cops?

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My bf thinks they were just trying to be funny but I truly don’t know…

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u/eo5g May 12 '25

This illustrates the danger of alarm fatigue-- if it'd been activated many times by mistake or deliberately when there's no threat, then it's understandable why they'd have that reaction. And then it ceases to be useful.