> Amber alerts are bad. We get them now and them in Ontario at 3am, sent to the entire (rather large) province. This is idiotic. The probability that someone wo

> Amber alerts are bad. We get them now and them in Ontario at 3am, sent to the entire (rather large) province. This is idiotic. The probability that someone would be awake and in a position to observe an abducted child at 3am is negligible. The probability that someone woken at 3am will not be able to get back to sleep, drive to work in the morning when drowsy, and consequently get into an accident that kills someone, is not negligible. That's why I disable them totally. In my experience, they're always just a description of a car, and realistically there's literally nothing I can do with that information. When I'm at home, I'm not going to check license plates, and when I'm driving I'm not going to check my phone (nor remember a random license plate number for more than 10 seconds to check anything). They're also always "non-custodial parent took the kids," and I'm pretty sure the police in that case can quickly discover much better information than I could ever give them. There was one recently in my area that a friend of mine received. Later I read in the paper that they just tracked the guy's cell phone to find him.