‘The Purge’ Siren Used to Signal Curfew in Louisiana, Police Apologize

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Police in Crowley, La., had to apologize after using the siren from the horror franchise “The Purge” to signal a curfew during the city’s quarantine. In order to stop the spread o…

, the city has implemented a 9 p.m. curfew for residents, but many found the noise chosen for the siren eerily familiar.Crowley police drove around the city’s Acadia Parish playing the noise to alert people to the nightly curfew, which lasts until 6 a.m.

Jimmy Broussard, the city’s police chief, told KATC that he didn’t know the noise was from “The Purge” movies, and doesn’t plan to use any other type of siren in the future. “Last night a ‘Purge Siren’ was utilized by the Crowley Police Department as part of their starting curfew. We have received numerous complaints with the belief that our agency was involved in this process. We were not involved in the use of the ‘Purge Siren’ and will not utilize any type of siren for this purpose,” Acadia Parish sheriff K.P. Gibson said in a statement to the news station.

All “The Purge” horror movies feature a 12-hour window of time where all crime, no matter how violent, is made legal in the U.S. The siren is used to signal the beginning of the Purge. It can be heard in most of the franchise’s trailers, including the most recent movie, “The First Purge.”

 

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Does this mean we have 24 hours to purge on soyboy pussies and make the world a less bitch place to live in? A man made natural selection. The weak shall parish leaving the world to the strong.

Lufc1203

Just practicing.

Boy some people almost... That all I'm gonna say!!!!

deray TheOnion is going to go out of business for sure

DavidAFrench a practice run for the actual purge still to come?

DavidAFrench Actually a siren used to be used for correct purposes in times past. Anyone remember the siren for the practice to run hide from a bombs in the 50's and 60's. Small towns still use them for fire alerts.

DavidAFrench

deray That might be the coolest thing ever!

Acab

Hahahahahahahahahaha

brianstelter That's eerie alright.

Another Republican edition of “Let’s do something completely unacceptable then apologize like we didn’t mean it.”

brianstelter cenkuygur JayarJackson EmmaVigeland have y’all seen this

Why do they even have the purge siren on their system?

JoshMankiewicz Assholes

liamstack That's actually brilliant, have some sense of humor, world.

brianstelter That's so clean

brianstelter I wouldn't apologize

brianstelter That's hilarious🤣🤣🤣

LOL

Apologize why? If it gets the job done, no sorry's needed 🤫

*Accidentally used.

🤣

They weren't apologising to anyone who may have found it inappropriate, they were apologising to anyone who'd been misled into believing all crime was now legal. Imagine getting their hopes up like that!

natpassamau

That means it's legal to resist right

brianstelter I think this is the humor people need right now.

brianstelter Oh do...not...f**k...around...with ...that!

brianstelter 😂

chickmcgee1

Seriously?

“Whoops we said the quiet part out loud ‘as a joke’ again”

WHAT

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh snap

😳

Lol. Why do they even have the purge siren at the ready. Something theyee not telling us?

That's actually awesome 😂

🤣

What

Ain't no way that was an accident. 😂

This is an awesome American headline!

That’s not even the slightest bit believeable. Some ass knew exactly what they were doing.

Different places here in the Philippines actually~ use this to announce the start of curfew

Least it wasn’t the Silent Hill one.

Not a mistake

I’m purging tonight

Why do they even have that siren?

🚩

Whoops

Accidental my ass! Lock em up

Imagine taking a nap and the signal for the purge pulls you out from your dreams I don't know about you but I'm gonna start crying on the spot

cteedatsme I need to know if they knew and if I’m going to Hell for cackling when I read this

'Accidentally'

Omg that is funny as hell. Someone knew what it was. Haha I wouldn’t complain.

if i had heard this siren i would be like: run bitch, just run lol

meu deus o plot

😂 omg.

CrownRoyal22 Why the fuck is there even a purge siren lol

lmv55

Sorry, that’s for later..🤔

I would have been done

Well damn.

DarkMattersProj Apologize? That really feels like terrorism to me. gaslighting Resist

Hell, now they're just rubbing it in our faces.

The same thing happened in Argentina

I’d have a heart attack

😂😭🤣

Wow...

🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

Big fan of governments apparently wanting people to be scared and cause civil unrest potentially sure it'll all be fine

GraceRandolph

Now...that's FUNNY !!!.... ')

Me thinking that siren is a movie then & realizing it's real life:

😅😅😅😅😓

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM TF DEAD.

RichNice2k1 🥴

😭😭oouff

As cruel as it sounds... put that shit on blast every day until they lock their asses down.

WTF Louisiana! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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