Hieronymus' Blog

If you were to "demonstrate" a unit designed to alert people in the case of an emergency AND you knew people were stationed at various distances to report if they could hear it, would you send an underpowered, crippled version?

For a "demonstration" of an alert system, is not the very POINT of the demonstration the kind of warning it gives?  If you wanted to demonstrate the lifting power of a crane would you send a partial-capacity version?  If you wanted to demonstrate the effectiveness of a fire engine's water pump would you send one with 1/2 the PSI?

It matters NOT whether you are "demonstrating" or "testing" an alert siren, the very point is to showcase the effectiveness of the unit.  Whelen's excfuse just doesn't hold up to the most basic logic...!

The officials at Whelen are either counting on the public's stupidity to buy such a story or they are incompetent themselves.  Either way - it doesn't bode well for them.