Crying wolf is crying for help when there is no danger not when there is a danger just at different place.

That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom.

fc417fc802 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection.

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croes an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

But this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected.

	▲	weird-eye-issue 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It was a false alert in that particular place. I doubt those residents who were alerted had felt like they were previously in immediate danger.

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weird-eye-issue an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is real life there's always a danger just at a different place.