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Late night Amber Alert shows Ontario’s worst side
- Thread starter UnpopularBlargh
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With an alarm that my entire home can hear unless I turn off my phone.
If there were any reasonable complaints, this would be one of them. Hope your moms doin alright.
It's really not, though. It technically arrives on your phone as a text message, but the sound that accompanies it is the same sound that something like a mandatory evacuation alert comes with.
Your Wife missed a nights sleep, on the other hand a Mother is now missing her Daughter for the rest of her life.
People really need some fucking perspective before being ''pissed'' about something than can literally be a matter of life and death for a child.
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Can't even check your phone while your driving either.
So you have to be not in a car, around Peel region, at 11PM
She is scared of having her cell phone next to her now. I don't know what to do. I want it near her to call the hospital or me, but its this ticking bomb that can go off at any fucking time.
Her phone is set to have calm tones and to slowly raise the volume for calls and alarms.
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No. They found them over an hour/hundred kilometres away from the original location.
It not being a stolen car doesn't even matter. Don't know why you brought that up.
And you don't think inconvenience is worth saving kids? The only argument I've seen in this thread that merits any sort of consideration is Mikey Jr.'s about his mother having a poor heart. But everyone else is just complaining about inconvenience.
It really isn't, at least not the default alarm.
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I am referring to an Amber alert I received. Not the one in the OP.
I've already stated in this thread that it is worth the inconvenience to save kids. I'm just pointing out that you're severely underselling what this alarm sounds like. I would describe it as being on the same level as a smoke alarm going off, except it is actually way more jarring and scary because it has a unique sound. You are jolted awake by the smoke alarm and you know what it is. You are jolted awake by an Amber Alert and all you can think is "oh my god, what is that and where is it coming from."
Also, the specific one that people are complaining about did nothing to save anybody. It was alerting everyone that the kid had been found and that they could stop looking.
Someone posted earlier in the thread about changing options so that the amber alerts are just a vibration and visual alert I think? Is it possible to change the settings so that doesnt happen again?
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Repeating this for everyone:
The whole point is to get it seen by as many people as possible in a short amount of time within a certain area/radius.
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Only time I've ever been annoyed at Amber Alerts was when I'd be in an airport of a city I don't live in and my phone would all the sudden go off. Happened at DFW, and at least one other time. But I'd just acknowledge the alarm and go on my merry way.
the person who found the car was in their car and was on the phone with 911 following the guy (and not in peel region btw)
If this was in Southern California, the person would have been thanked for their service and then presented with a ticket for using their phone while driving.
The end to this story was so sad. I was so happy to see kid was found and then the news hit......
Anyway my only complaint about the alert was that it was pretty damn loco. I'm not mad, 100% necessary, but they need to distinguish amber alert from nuclear bomb alert cuz this shit was nuclear bomb level lol.
I think I got it at 10pm, people are such whiners. I did what any normal person would do and noted the info provided in case somehow I come across it.
edit: with that said, maybe there is a different sound for nukes, guess we'll find out some time!!
Anyway my only complaint about the alert was that it was pretty damn loco. I'm not mad, 100% necessary, but they need to distinguish amber alert from nuclear bomb alert cuz this shit was nuclear bomb level lol.
I think I got it at 10pm, people are such whiners. I did what any normal person would do and noted the info provided in case somehow I come across it.
edit: with that said, maybe there is a different sound for nukes, guess we'll find out some time!!
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I was making a joke about how untrusted our authority figures are here
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Whoops, confused my Canadian provinces. Quebec is the shithole.
On iPhone you cannot change the alarm tone. Only turn the alerts off.
Yeah this sound should be reserved for nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon attacks, and/or immediate natural disaster (tsunami where applicable, tornado in direct vicinity, etc).
Amber Alerts and other emergency alerts are absolutely helpful and necessary. Still worth looking into tweaking them, such as having different levels for different emergencies. I've never heard anything like the video lunarworks posted earlier, possibly due to phone settings (I'm on silent almost all the time, so I get crazy vibrations but no siren noises). I could certainly see an alarm like that causing problems for people with weak hearts or other medical issues. The people complaining only because they were woken up but otherwise had no medical issues that could have been complicated by this (and those calling 911 to complain) are jerks. I wish they had found the girl before it was too late. :(
This x1000. There are ZERO grounds for complaints on this one and anyone put into this family's shoes would be expecting this same alert to be sent out regardless of the time.
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Nope. It's very possible. I travel from Montreal to Toronto for work once a month which is pretty much in that range.
Exactly. Dude could've been in Detroit by the time the alert went out.
I get that being woken up by a startling alarm is annoying but like, it's you losing sleep compared to someone losing their child.
I guess going on social media to complain about it reveals how shitty you are to everyone though.
I guess going on social media to complain about it reveals how shitty you are to everyone though.
The whole point in the doomsday alarm sound is to get as many people as possible to actually look at the message and see suspect details instead of brushing it off as just another text message and not looking at it until later. The sound is fine.
Bro, I'm sure if it was your 5 month old missing you'd be hoping the alert gets to as many people as possible regardless of time frame. It's a minor inconvenience if anything, and rarely even happens often in the same region throughout the year for that sound at night to be considered a nuisance.
Bro, I'm sure if it was your 5 month old missing you'd be hoping the alert gets to as many people as possible regardless of time frame. It's a minor inconvenience if anything, and rarely even happens often in the same region throughout the year for that sound at night to be considered a nuisance.
I just put my phone in airplane mode. No reason to turn it off.
To those complaining, this is not a new thing. Go and disable them on your phones if you are so inconvenienced.
And you don't necessarily have to be in that region. One of the premises behind an amber alert is that the child's whereabouts is unknown and could be very far away depending on how much time has passed.
Pull over? Or check once you're pulled over? Unless I misunderstand you, that isn't a valid point.
And you don't necessarily have to be in that region. One of the premises behind an amber alert is that the child's whereabouts is unknown and could be very far away depending on how much time has passed.
I'm not saying don't do it.
I'm just responding to someone saying that's not even late. If a massive alarm went off on our phones at 11PM we'd fucking die, but yeah obviously I'd appreciate it if it were my child.
Phones should have more options for these things though for cases where your child is in bed and your phone could wake them up at that particular moment and there's literally no way you could help find someone at that time because you're at home in bed. And for something like what someone else said where their older family member needs soothing sounds on their phone.
Anyway, post was just basically saying "You don't know someone's life. Don't assume 11PM isn't for everyone."
This isn't just about annoyance. If they keep using a doomsday klaxon for amber alerts people will become desensitized to it or find a way to disable it, which will be a serious issue in a disaster scenario.