Submitted by The_Waxies_Dargle t3_zvm848 in baltimore
Not sure who is responsible for how amber alerts are handled, but waking up the whole house at 4:29AM, including the kids, is a good way to get the service blocked.
There's got to be a better way than scaring the fuck out of sleeping families.
So this is embarrassing. Turns out someone staying here set off a smoke detector right after the amber alert came in. Which is what woke us all up. So yes, my phone was on DND. It wasn't the Amber Alert that woke me, but a smoke alarm, which I thought was the AA, which is why I found it intrusive.
Anyhow, I'll take my lumps for a shitty hot take. And yes, if it was my child, I'd want the world to stop. I was under the impression the smoke alarm in my house was the amber alert.
Me = moron.
Respect for owning a bad take lol
Exactly! Props for owning it…
You = owner = good person!!!
Lol it’s ok
You’re right they should just wait until hours after a child is taken to issue it /s
Lol fuck that missing kid and their family then huh
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What actions do you take when you are sleeping and an alert pops up? Do you head outside and look for the vehicle? If not, fuck that kid huh?
Seriously. I want to be alerted if ya know, a tornado is rolling though at 4:30am. That same alert for a missing child multiple counties away from me seems a little questionable. I feel for the kid/family but nothing I can do at 4:30am. Hope they find the kid safe and healthy.
Why is your phone not in do not disturb mode when you sleep?
Teenage kids out driving after I'm in bed.
You can create exceptions for individual contacts. For example my phone is set to automatically go into Do Not Disturb mode after 10pm, but my wife, my mother, and my best friend will always make a ringtone no matter what.
This is Reddit, which is representative of people in real life. Everything is black and white and nuance that doesn’t absolutely follow the circle jerk is blindly downvoted. How many people who upvoted these comments actually thought about it like that?
I know I totally hop out of bed at 4:30 am and join the search party with my neighbors. Or at least commit the plate number to memory, then go back to bed for a few hours, and perfectly recall the plate when I leave the house 5 hours later. Just like everyone here upvoting… right people?
Look, it's human to be annoyed at a loud notification going off in the night, but take a moment to reflect before you post my man
You can turn off the sound for emergency alerts when your phone is in silent mode.
Settings > Notifications > Emergency Alerts
Seems also like an opportunity for phone manufacturers to improve. The default option should not be a loud notification in the middle of the night. If a phone hasn’t moved in a certain amount of time and it’s between like 10pm and 6am, have it delivered silently and then have it take up a full screen when the phone is finally unlocked. There’s zero value in waking people up to look for a car but people already out and about could get notified in real time. And when people start to wake up they can be notified first thing.
you can set a bedtime, and not get notifications during that time
Not an ideal solution. There are certainly alerts you might want to get at 4:30am - weather related, as an example. If a very active storm is producing a ton of tornadoes and is heading my way I want to know about it. Or some sort of riot broke out. Because I will take action upon this information at 4:30 am.
But there’s other stuff that isn’t helpful at 4:30 am. I’m not hopping out of bed and looking for a car, just like EVERYONE on here. But if I got in the car at 5:00 am it would be helpful to receive a notification then, even if it’s delayed.
This is the best answer here: use this as an opportunity to refine how these alerts are issued and handled - not just because you don't wake up half a million people in the middle of the night, but because by figuring out how to target the alerts to those devices owned by people in the best position to do something about it, instead of being a nuisance, the alerts are helpful and people don't just go into their settings and turn them all off.
100% this. You want to maximize the signal to noise ratio. Otherwise, like you said, people will just turn them off and then they’ll never get the notifications at all. People fast asleep at 4:30am are useless in a vehicle search. It’s strictly negative value to notify them.
It was totally startling I agree OP but if it’s to save a kid, then so be it.
If it were your kids,would you care what time? Miss me with this entitled b s
With all due respect, be grateful that your children were in your house getting woken up to the amber alert and not the reason an amber alert is being sent out.
you know you can turn your phone on do not disturb or silent, right?
Seems petty to be mad about a missing child. How would you feel if it was a child you knew that was missing and people were mad they got woke up over the alert
lol
It's always a Kia Optima.
Or a silver 2011 Acura.
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Don’t be that guy
I got that alert on my way to work. I didn’t see one white Kia but I thought how great everybody is looking for the kid
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That noise is the scariest noise ever man. Something about that static and those beeps with the computerized voice wake u up and leave u cold and shaken
I remember driving at night thru the mountains on i81 when a major storm came and the warning came on the radio. I was in the middle of nowhere. I think since then it’s traumatizing so i have to turn the ambers off but I wish I didn’t have to
You can put your phone in silent mode before going to bed. Am I missing something?
Well, the child was found unharmed. I don't know if it was due to the 4am alert or the one in the afternoon. Either way, it sounds like the system worked.
That truly does suck about your fire alarm though. But again it's another system designed to alert you to the emergency.
Waiting until the morning would likely be more effective.
For the downvoters, I'm pretty sure the poster is being sarcastic.
Typenamehere_ t1_j1ptdly wrote
Do you think you’d feel like that if it was your kids?