F*** Blue Alerts

[SteveGrabowski]

Ugh 4:45AM this morning and my phone starts beeping at max volume like it's an EAS alert and I'm thinking oh shit, did Israel just nuke Iran and now Putin is retaliating against us? Go to check my phone and it's this stupid shit from Memphis, Tx 7 hours away:

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Fuck you Rick Perry for instituting this system for Texas and I can't turn off these stupid alerts.

 

[Indus]

Ugh 4:45AM this morning and my phone starts beeping at max volume like it's an EAS alert and I'm thinking oh shit, did Israel just nuke Iran and now Putin is retaliating against us? Go to check my phone and it's this stupid shit from Memphis, Tx 7 hours away:


View attachment 108670

I think if you have a Samsung.. you can turn off every alert except a PRESIDENTIAL Alert.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I think if you have a Samsung.. you can turn off every alert except a PRESIDENTIAL Alert.

I'd just like to turn these off as they're completely useless, as (1) I'm not doing the police's work for them at my own personal risk in the 1 in a trillion chance I see said suspect just walking down my street at 4:45AM and (2) I don't like cops anyways. But I don't want to turn off say tornado alerts.

 

[Indus]

I'd just like to turn these off as they're completely useless, as (1) I'm not doing the police's work for them at my own personal risk in the 1 in a trillion chance I see said suspect just walking down my street at 4:45AM and (2) I don't like cops anyways. But I don't want to turn off say tornado alerts.

Then just turn off everything except EXTREME alerts.. the rest are garbage anyways.

I don't know if you can do it on ios.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Then just turn off everything except EXTREME alerts.. the rest are garbage anyways.

I don't know if you can do it on ios.

This was an EXTREME alert.

 

[purbeast0]

Am I the only person on the planet that doesn't sleep with their phone in their bedroom?

If I got an alert at 4:45am on my phone I wouldn't know about it until I wake up and go downstairs.

 

[HomerJS]

Fuck you Rick Perry for instituting this system for Texas and I can't turn off these stupid alerts.

Think Texas included a feature to do a name search and not send texts to those phones. Seth Altman now changes his clothes and works on a facial disguise.

No guarantee but could be helpful

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Was in a big training session with about 30 other people yesterday when a silver alert went off and EVERYONE'S PHONE starts making a loud chime.

I'm was like "Shit, who's the Hezbollah member in here that is going to get us all killed" but it turned out someone kidnapped someone else so...

 

[Paratus]

Is that WTF it was? Woke all of us up too.

 

[Drach]

I turned all that stuff off after the first time it went off. 4:45 am.

"According to the Texas DPS frequently asked questions about emergency alerts, statewide AMBER and Blue Alerts are supposed to only be sent between the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m."

 

[zinfamous]

If someone injures a police officer, I will only ever assume that it is self defense. Don't these states already have insane right of defense and castle laws? Why are cops immune for liability for this?

Fuck if I'm ever going to help a cop find someone just so that they can kill them.