I pay attention to them to make sure I don't happen to be driving the same make/model/color vehicle they're looking for.
I usually assume it's the state trying to kidnap a child from their own parents. Usually it's one of the parents, a 'non-custodial parent', who is wanted in those Amber Alerts. Not always, some kids are taken from their parents. If the Amber Alert is about a non-custodial parent I'm gonna mind my own business...
This is my biggest complaint. This system should be used for actual abductions, not when a parent who loves and cares for their child panics and runs off with them.
If you have a Samsung phone you can disable all the alerts. Get the free Android Messages app from the store and make it the default messages app. Revoke all permissions and block notifications from the original app. This worked on my S10 to get rid of the doom siren at 2 am for the missing children hundreds of kilometres away.
setting>notifications on the bottom of the page on an iphone
Amber alerts exist to tell police that there is a pedophile delivery in progress and to stay away from said vehicle.
Only when it's a white kid.
Should I?
If I gave a fuck about the society I lived in, maybe. They were fine back when people cared about their neighbors. Before diversity ruined that.
Me and a group of about 8 friends when ever there is an amber alert we get in our cars and drive around town going about 110 MPH and yell out the windows for the missing person. We run lights and honk and have our own fake police lights and sirens we go wild as long as possible just trying our darndest to save these people that lost abducted what ever. We have not found anyone yet but we will keep trying
I got one from 400 miles away in the middle if the night. Shut then off after that.
Once a cop pulled my dad over thinking he had kidnapped my sister and I just because he was driving a unmarked white work van.
That's was pretty wild and stupid. Scared the crap out of us.
Not when they're nigglets
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