Broadmoor alarm test

[greeneggsnsam]

I work in Bracknell and can see the Broadmooor alarm tower from my desk. The last 2 weeks I've not heard it go off at all (it should have gone off just now in fact at 10am Monday) and my co-worker says he hasn't heard it for ages either.

Anyone know what's going on?

[BerksJack]

How fast can you run?

No seriously, I'd be grabbing my keys and heading for the exit, even a heavily sedated physco could cover 2 miles in 20mins.....

[greeneggsnsam]

And by the sounds of it they've had one escape every week at the same time for ages...

[NormanD]

I used that as my alarm clock to get out of bed

I've now over slept for the last few weeks

[baron bashoneov]

greeneggsnsam said:

I work in Bracknell and can see the Broadmooor alarm tower from my desk. The last 2 weeks I've not heard it go off at all (it should have gone off just now in fact at 10am Monday) and my co-worker says he hasn't heard it for ages either.

Anyone know what's going on?

government cuts

[CypherP]

greeneggsnsam said:

I work in Bracknell and can see the Broadmooor alarm tower from my desk. The last 2 weeks I've not heard it go off at all (it should have gone off just now in fact at 10am Monday) and my co-worker says he hasn't heard it for ages either.

Anyone know what's going on?

Definitely did go off yesterday as I was at home yesterday morning (Jennetts Park) and was able to hear it for a good minute or so. Pretty loudly too.

[greeneggsnsam]

Perhaps the sound proofing has improved at the business...

[anonymous-user]

Yeah it definitely went off yesterday morning. But I couldn't hear it with the windows shut at all, maybe that's what's happened? I think it used to be louder but as I've been at university for 4 years and just got back I barely hear it anymore, so not sure about that one.

[CypherP]

Wind speed and direction makes a huge difference too. Some Mondays I can barely hear it, and yet others like yesterday sounds like it is just round the corner.

[flimper]

I haven't noticed it go off in Camberley for ages

[Ozmira]

I'm sure I heard it in blackwater yesterday, I live close to the meadows where theres a siren. At least I think I heard it, I'm so used to hearing it at 10am on a Monday if it stoped I'd probably still hear it.

[SVTRick]

flimper said:

I haven't noticed it go off in Camberley for ages

I normally does on Friday & Saturday nights in the Town Centre....

[PaddyZulu]

SVTRick said:

I normally does on Friday & Saturday nights in the Town Centre....

Town planning to be proud of

[flimper]

SVTRick said:

I normally does on Friday & Saturday nights in the Town Centre....

[Wycombe83]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2WU9qwDI_Y

Here's one of them.

[cod man]

I don't know why they bother with the siren anymore. If I was an inmate I would plan to escape at 10am on a Monday. That'd fool 'em.

[anonymous-user]

cod man said:

I don't know why they bother with the siren anymore. If I was an inmate I would plan to escape at 10am on a Monday. That'd fool 'em.

That's why there's an all clear tone after the test. Though admittedly I didn't know that's what the constant tone is until about 10 minutes ago. It would also go off for a lot longer if someone did escape.

[JW911]

cod man said:

I don't know why they bother with the siren anymore. If I was an inmate I would plan to escape at 10am on a Monday. That'd fool 'em.

They rely on them all being too nuts to work that out.