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Texas DPS mistakenly sends out Amber Alert for Chucky doll
- walrus01 6y agoAt least it's not a ballistic missile inbound alert for a Chucky doll
- astura 6y agoLooks like some test data made it into production.
- Scoundreller 6y agoOne of the better “oops, this was production?” mistakes: https://time.com/5763472/nuclear-warning-ontario-canada/ https://time.com/5763472/nuclear-warning-ontario-canada/
- olliej 6y agosigh, and there go another bunch of people disabling amber alerts on their phones.
- rlt 6y agoMaybe they shouldn’t make Amber Alerts preempt Do Not Disturb then fewer people would disable them. It’s unlikely anyone woken up by an Amber Alert would be useful in that moment. At least defer it until they turn off Do Not Disturb.
- sterlind 6y agoso I have do not disturb set up all the time because I'm too dumb to figure something out: I need to hear phone calls at night in case I get paged, but I want all notifications to vibrate. on Android the same slider is used for notification volume and ring volume. switching the phone to vibrate mode makes both vibrate. the only thing I've been able to figure out is 24/7 Do Not Disturb, with notifications muted but calls allowed to ring. is there some obvious workaround I'm missing? this seems like the most common way to use a phone, so I feel like a ditz.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoWe use pagerduty, and it's pretty handy that I can use DND because their mobile app will turn it off if it needs to. I think it also creates a phone contact so that incoming calls bypass DND.
- SargeZT 6y agoThat sigh may be unnecessary. The only non-governmental study I've ever found carried out on amber alerts' effectiveness showed them to be largely ineffective, if not counter-productive. The study is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242221179_A_preliminary_examination_of_AMBER_alert's_effects https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242221179_A_prelimi...
- casselc 6y agoFrom the article, it's not clear this ever went out as a wireless AMBER alert, just to people subscribed to an email alert system. The wireless alerts and highway signage are part of the secondary distribution system, so might not have actually been triggered.
- threatofrain 6y agoIt’s really not obvious what I’m supposed to do about vague government alerts; watch out for black car of this model with suspicious male... okay... And to imagine that the extreme supermajority of amber alerts are regional or statewide.
- meowster 6y agoI would like to receive Amber Alerts without the obnoxious noise. If there was just a middle-ground option of just having the pop-up and no noise, then I would leave it enabled.
- slim 6y agothey should be grateful it is a properly designed test that can't be mistaken for real data
- icefrakker 6y agoChrist can you imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this? Absolutely ridiculous - Jesus told Peter with great power comes great responsibility and its maddening how irresponsible American government at every level is.
- coderintherye 6y agoIf anyone else was interested in Amber Alert statistics: https://amberalert.ojp.gov/statistics https://amberalert.ojp.gov/statistics