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Police are informing stone fans astatine this weekend's Download festival astir the imaginable for accidental calls portion successful the mosh pit.
Leicestershire Police issued an alert up of the lawsuit astatine Donington Park, which begins connected Friday.
Posting connected Facebook, the unit said, successful erstwhile years, they received "a emergence of astir 700 other 999 calls" caused by energetic dancing astatine Download.
"The tech assumed that radical successful mosh pits had been successful a collision, causing 999 contacts and abandoned 999 calls," said the post.
Police person blamed mobiles and wearable gadgets featuring exertion which alerts exigency services erstwhile it suspects determination has been an accident.
The exertion tin inadvertently activate erstwhile hardcore rock, dense metal, oregon punk fans are progressive successful assertive styles of dancing - sometimes called "thrashing", "slam dancing" oregon "pogoing".
Certain iPhone and Apple Watch models run a "crash detection" diagnostic - turned connected by default - which is designed to place a terrible car clang and link radical to exigency services.
Even if radical are unaware that the diagnostic has been activated, the instrumentality volition telephone the exigency services automatically aft a 30-second countdown.
Some Android mobiles run a akin work called "car clang detection".
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"All those calls had to beryllium assessed, with 3 outbound telephone attempts completed to guarantee determination is nary threat, hazard oregon harm, taking our interaction handlers distant from answering existent exigency calls," constabulary added.
They recommended switching connected airplane mode oregon disabling exigency alerts connected wearable tech, arsenic good arsenic answering immoderate callbacks truthful officers cognize fans are safe.
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Some of the reactions to the station included "don't mosh excessively hard" and "be wary of the mosh pit".
But different idiosyncratic commented: "Avoid mendacious alarms and let constabulary to absorption connected crime."
Headline acts astatine Download are Green Day connected Friday, Sleep Tolken connected Saturday and Korn connected Sunday.
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