In the US, my state had a spate of sending amber alerts at 2am, mostly for old people escaping from old people homes.

I’m sure a ton of people just turned them off. They did ridiculous damage to the system.

I thought about starting an Amber Alert Milita; so any amber alert gets a fully armed response from the kind of people who join militias. That would have probably made the cops think twice about sending stupid alerts for stupid things.

Brenda escaping the memory care center yesterday morning (!) does not mean you should warn us all to watch out for her the next morning at 2am. Unless she’s found an axe and is going door to door chopping people up. That’s the only reason to send that alert.

I bet they killed a few people with heart attacks by setting off sirens in every bedroom in the county.