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Do you turn off amber alerts on your phone?
- Thread starter Vaelic
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I turn them off. I don't feel guilty. I turn all kinds of alerts on my phone off. Don't feel guilty about those, either.
Because I don't want to be bothered in the middle of the night.
Nothing like this exists where I'm from.
I delete Peel Remote everyday, but the fucker comes back like Arnold in the Terminator..
I delete Peel Remote everyday, but the fucker comes back like Arnold in the Terminator..
Yeah I'm sure that missing child gives a flying fuck about you up in the middle of the night as they're trying to be found
lets be honest here are you really going to be remembering anything from a text you get in the middle of the night?
I don't get them for some reason. And I know there are cases, my work's TV like to screech when they're posting one
Missing child alert (usually followed by a description of the kidnapper)
Missing child alert (usually followed by a description of the kidnapper)
I barely remember the faces of people I've met multiple times or actors.
Unless the kid is literally knocking on my door within 30 sec of the alert I won't remember.
Same with the cars/plate. I've had the same plate number for ten years and I legit can't tell you without looking.
Also when I had the alerts on they were always for locations an hour away for some reason.
Absolutely, but only because Ohio feels it's necessary to send it out to the entire state at 4:30 in the morning. Sorry, but I'm not going to be much help in my bed 2 hours away. It's one thing if it was a simple text message, but they send it through like it's a nuclear attack warning.
Not the answers I was expecting at all. I just read comments on a Yahoo news story and had to check and see if I was still reading them and got mixed up.
Yeah I keep them on.
Yeah I keep them on.
I didn't know I could do that but... why would I?
Right!? Jesus.
Every time I've ever gotten an Amber Alert on my phone, it's always been for a couple of states away. I'm sure there are highways that pass through my state, but that still does me no good.
I turn off every notification except for voice after work or if I'm expecting a call. I use Mr Number to filter out 99% of spam.
I really don't care if a white pick up truck in San Antonio is involves in an abduction when I'm in a suburb of Austin. That's the kind of notifications I would get while presenting at meetings or driving in heavy traffic.
I really don't care if a white pick up truck in San Antonio is involves in an abduction when I'm in a suburb of Austin. That's the kind of notifications I would get while presenting at meetings or driving in heavy traffic.
I turn them off. I have insomnia, I don't ever interact with kids, and my memory is shit. I wouldn't be able to help even if I wanted to.
I'm also a piece of shit, so there's that as well.
I'm also a piece of shit, so there's that as well.
Nope, I also don't turn off the severe weather alerts. Sure it's inconvenient and sucks that it sometimes goes off in the middle of the night, but I can't help feeling that if I do turn them off I will miss an important one.
Plus if one ever puts me in a position to help I want to be able to.
Plus if one ever puts me in a position to help I want to be able to.
Yeah, I have them off. They're never even relatively close to my area and almost always go off while I'm at work so there's nothing I could do even if I tried.
Yes, I only leave severe threat alerts
I didn't appreciate that shit blasting my speakers
I didn't appreciate that shit blasting my speakers
Lucky they come up pretty often in the surrounding L.A. area
No because if it were one of my kids that was kidnap I would want as many people to see the alert as possible. You never know.
Sending an alert for plates is simply ineffective. Put plate scanners on interstates and highways and alert police and the FBI, not rando vigilantes. We have them on tolls in Texas.
How many amber alerts do you realistically gets a year?
Not sure how much of a nuisance it can be that would require it to be turned off.
Not sure how much of a nuisance it can be that would require it to be turned off.
Bingo. I don't seem to get any at night though, I wonder if DND overrides.
I did after a while because they would always be quite a distance away. I lived in Georgia but got alerts from places like Colorado and what not. If it was the greater southern region sure, close states and what not, but getting an alert from the other side of the country and no information saying they might be in the region, almost daily got annoying.