Amazon's Alexa is on the fritz, bungling alarms and timers and leaving some UK users trapped in an endless wake-up call.

Reports from outage tracker DownDetector show a surge of complaints from UK users on Thursday. The complaints started to roll in at around 0800 local time, right as many morning alarms were blaring and, for some, refusing to be silenced.

Reddit is already awash with grumbles, some from folks who've had to yank the plug on their Echo to stop the racket. One poster said this worked – at least until they powered it back on and the alarm picked up where it left off.

"I'm about to throw my Alexa at the wall, it is driving me insane especially because I know I have another alarm in 18 minutes," one Reddit user groans. Another claimed the glitch made them rock up to work an

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