Heavy metal fans have been told to take off smartwatches at UK festival.
That’s because, as well as black T-shirts, a lot of the metal heads at the festival wear smartwatches and other devices that automatically make 999 calls to police because “the tech assumed that people in moshpits had been in a collision,” according to Leicestershire police.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360724034/why-heavy-metal-fans-have-been-told-take-smartwatches-uk-festival
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