And the late JC wept!

The outrage and nashing of teeth both here and in other media outlets baffles me! It's as if one wake-up in the middle of the night is the end of the world for these people. Lucky they're not volunteer firefighters! There are New Zealander's overseas at the moment who, at the sound of a siren like that, leap out of bed and sprint to concrete bunkers to await the incoming rockets/mortars - and yet all you had to do was press a button on your phone and roll back over. There are yet others, here in NZ who, at the sound of a similar alert, leap out of bed at any hour, deep sleep or not, and madly dash to put themselves iin harms way to save life and property from fire or other such incident - and yet you would think the vocal majority of this country had their first-born killed by this message!

I think @mikeB4 nailed it when he mentioned outrage at being woken to your house on fire.

/rant