Police are warning festival attendees to leave smart watches at home for unexpected reason
Police have warned smart watch users heading to festivals this summer to check their devices, after an uptick in the number of accidental emergency calls...
That's because Apple Watches have a safety feature that can detect when a user is in a 'car crash' and automatically alerts the police - however, it's also apparently been going off while music lovers are getting thrown around in a mosh pit.
Having led a sheltered and somewhat innocent life, I had to look up 'mosh pit' in order to make sense of this story.
A zero click search tells me -
A mosh pit is an area in front of a stage at a rock concert where high-energy, volatile dancing takes place. Participants push or slam into each other, often to aggressive styles of live music such as punk rock and heavy metal.
Fine, it now makes sense in a technical sense, but doesn't make sense in an enjoying the music sense, so I'm heading back to that sheltered and somewhat innocent life. Assuming I can find it again.
9 comments:
Weren't they originally called 'head-bangers'?
Times have changed ...
(Note to self - must wind up my H.Samuael Ever-right watch tonight...)
Jings crivvens, help ma boab! Punk rock?
Have you never taken part in an enthusiastic, good old fashioned, ceilidh eightsome reel. After as few wee drinks and a band that just gets faster and faster.
Hilarious mayhem. Next dance please.
Little boy, Saturday mornings, Scottish Country Dancing class. Who could resist? We even used proper swords to prance around.
It’s quite a surprise to find mosh pits still happen - I'd have thought officialdom would have banned the whole business, especially given the experience of a nephew who was thrown out of a mosh pit for over-enthusiastic pogo-ing; he says he wasn’t doing anything the others weren’t but, at somewhere north of six feet tall, his antics were unfortunately rather more conspicuous.
(If you’ll forgive the link, documented here: https://newgatenews.blogspot.com/2010/09/elf-n-safety-in-mosh-pit.html)
Here's a time and labour saving tip for the police. Instead of putting out a public request that few will see, why not just remember to not turn out to any multiple car pile-ups in front of the stage at your local festival.
Oh AKH, have you never revelled in the mud and cacophony of Glastonbury, searching for a loo or bin? 😎
Scrobs - 'head-bangers' is the name I remember, better than 'mosh pit'.
Doonhamer - no I've never been to a ceilidh. Peace and quiet are my preferences, although I'm happy enough watching others hurtle around for a while.
dearieme - proper swords would make a difference.
Macheath - your post does suggest that they have become heavily monitored for safety reasons, maybe it's one of those nothing stories based on not very much.
Sam - good idea, it might be possible to tell if emergency calls come from Glastonbury, so an automated system could sort it. "Press 1 if you are in a mosh pit, Press 2 if you are stoned..."
James - no, it sounds horrible, never understood it, probably never shall.
And there's me thinking a 'mosh pit' was a sort of silage clsmp!?
Tammly - probably close by the end, especially if it rained.
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