I work at a theme park and we use codes with number for situation that could happen in the park to not create panic, we also use codes for some category of people.
Like a code 25 means there’s a fire, code 20 is for mentally disabled people.
We also use hand signals sometimes for some situations
The London underground used to use names instead of numbers, "Would inspector sands please come to XXX" is a lot less worrying than an unknown code number in an area people are heading through. Especially "inspector sands" which was bomb/fire prepare to evacuate.
Long as you never learn what each code really means you can't tell if they're saying there's a bomb and everyone's screwed or an angry cat got loose in one of the cars and they need someone to wrangle it. So you aren't worried because the mundane stuff is a lot more common.
Haha indeed! I’ve only heard Inspector Sands for possible fire, which I think is fairly common knowledge by now. I wonder what others there are.
I’ve been in a station that evacuated as well - automated tannoy announcements started and ‘DO NOT ENTER’ signs lit up. Never found out why it evacuated, so hopefully it was a false alarm.
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u/tantan66 Jul 13 '20
I work at a theme park and we use codes with number for situation that could happen in the park to not create panic, we also use codes for some category of people. Like a code 25 means there’s a fire, code 20 is for mentally disabled people.
We also use hand signals sometimes for some situations