AMBER Alert Coming Soon to iPhone

[emt1]

This is stupid.

https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp

The text messages are free, too.

 

[portishead]

There's no difference according to the law. Unless they have custody of the child, abducting the child is illegal, no matter the relation. Even parents are capable of causing their children great harm.

Maybe you should read my other posts before you quote me. To think a parent taking a child will do more harm than a stranger kidnapping is naive. I hope this law is eventually changed so that it only involves strangers. Until then, it's a joke.

 

[lowbatteries]

Oh really? How about minding your own business? Ever hear of that?

1. Dying animals - Get over it, are you serious? Worry about your human life

2. Other road hazards - Nice and specific Either stop and move it yourself, or move on

3. Suspected Drunk Driving - WONDERFUL. So this is your responsibility is it? So now when someone cuts you off, you could simply text in their license plate and the next cop to see them will have "probable cause" to violate the 4th amendment. Great idea.

4. Possible Wildfires - (as opposed to...impossible? ) - This is called an EMERGENCY and there is already a 3 digit phone number. We do not need a "slightly more impersonal" version of emergency reporting.

There is serious cultural problem with people who want to affect something, but have no idea for an appropriate (or constitutional) way to do so.

1. Dying animals need to be put down, and removed from the road. They are suffering and are a road hazard. I'm pretty sure cops not only have probably cause, but that

2. Let me get out of my car on a windy mountain road and move this half ton boulder ... or try calling 911 and letting them know there is a boulder on the road on turn #62 near Mudflap, Idaho ... or I could hit a button and they could pinpoint it within 5 meters with my GPS.

3. I'm talking about swerving all over the road, throwing beer cans out the window type of drunk driving. I'd try to run the sons of bitches off the road myself, but this is why we have emergency reporting - so I don't have to.

4. Dying animals need to be put down, and removed from the road. They are suffering and are a road hazard. I'm pretty sure cops not only have probably cause, but that's what we PAY them for.

5. Let me rephrase that. Fires that possibly are wildfires. Farmers burn their fields. People burn their trash piles. People have campfires. It would be nice to know the right number to call (and no, its not always 911). Wildfires aren't house fires, often they are NOT an emergency - local agencies will just tell you they are aware of it and that the terrain is such that it will burn itself out.

Also, an app for reporting these types of things would be nice if you could save the GPS coordinates and info when you are out of service (which 1, 2, 4, and 5 usually happen in the middle of nowhere) and they are reported when you get connection.

Thank you for the opportunity to better express myself

 

[lowbatteries]

Wow, I really botched that post. Report my drunk forum ranting please. Here is hopefully a more coherent edit:

1. Dying animals need to be put down, and removed from the road. They are suffering and are a road hazard.

2. Let me get out of my car on a windy mountain road and move this half ton boulder ... or try calling 911 and letting them know there is a boulder on the road on turn #62 near Mudflap, Idaho ... or I could hit a button and they could pinpoint it within 5 meters with my GPS.

3. I'm talking about swerving all over the road, throwing beer cans out the window type of drunk driving. I'd try to run the sons of bitches off the road myself, but this is why we have emergency reporting - so I don't have to.
I'm pretty sure cops not only have probably cause, but that's what we PAY them for.

4. Let me rephrase that. Fires that possibly are wildfires. Farmers burn their fields. People burn their trash piles. People have campfires. It would be nice to know the right number to call (and no, its not always 911). Wildfires aren't house fires, often they are NOT an emergency - local agencies will just tell you they are aware of it and that the terrain is such that it will burn itself out.

Also, an app for reporting these types of things would be nice if you could save the GPS coordinates and info when you are out of service (which 1, 2, and 4 usually happen in the middle of nowhere) and they are reported when you get connection.

Thank you for the opportunity to better express myself

 

[hogo]

welcome to the police state...

Have you ever wondered what the policies are for "confirmation?" This app should be called iPolice, or iSnitch. I'm all for saving kids, but what happens when they get a situation wrong? Just like child pornography cases, even if the accused is innocent, once the accusation is made there are huge consequences. The whole amber alert thing has always bothered me in the sense that it seems like a scene from every futuristic movie where the public is easily manipulated into a high-tech mob. Anyways, enough ranting, I just think we should look at the possible downsides to mobilizing a huge demographic of people with the intent on capture.


my 2 cents