"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 09/05/2018 at 22:32 • Filed to: None

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Just got an amber alert on my phone. For a white Kia... FIVE HOURS FROM HERE.

Why yes I am quite sure I will be able to identify a white Kia among thousands of white kias that is in another fucking state and time zone when it’s 10:30 at night.

PS9 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/05/2018 at 22:50

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Pin pointed laser-like focus on the person(s) that might have seen the Kia is not the point of amber alert. Indeed if it were, Amber Alert would not be needed. The idea is if the Kia is or was somewhere in that area code, someone in it who is out and about might have seen it and, if we’re lucky, can give information leading to a rescued child. Right now, it just so happened that either you or the Kia, or both, are now no longer in the relevant area code, which is fine. It might be the case that someone else who also got the alert is closer to the Kia than you are right now .  

Being inconvenienced a tiny bit is the absolute least you can do to make the world a safer place for potential child victims. Seriously, just hit the okay button or whatever button it is for you that makes the alert go away and go about your day. It’s not like Amber Alerts take over your phone and prevent you from using it forever, and they don’t happen all the time. 

gin-san - shitpost specialist > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/05/2018 at 22:50

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So you must be EST? Maybe it’s just someone from the UK warning you about a kidnapping since they’re five hours in the future.

Coincidentally, I’m also in EST and own a white Kia, although I’m much too inebriated to be driving at this point which why I’m watching eurobeat compilation videos on youtube.

facw > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/05/2018 at 22:58

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Cars can move pretty far though, its sort of the point.

I wouldn’t be shocked if it was completely obsolete within 5 years though. No point bothering the public when you can just hit up the license plate reader database and find out where it is right away (or if we are very lucky regarding privacy, there won’t be a database, but you’d still be able to flag it and get an alert next time it goes by a camera.) Even without a license plate, there’s a good chance that AI will be able to flag make/model/color by that point.

My bird IS the word > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/05/2018 at 23:02

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I turned off amber alerts because they keep going off at 2 am, waking me up . Can’t crazies abduct kids during business hours?

DipodomysDeserti > My bird IS the word 09/05/2018 at 23:07

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I live in the “kidnapping capital” of the US and I’ve never been woken up by an amber alert. I can only remember maybe three ever going off on my phone in the last eight years and one was this weekend.

Sounds like you live in an area with nervous parents thinking their teenagers were kidnapped when they’re late for curfew.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > PS9 09/05/2018 at 23:11

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Don’t take it as a gripe, more a bafflement. I can’t even remember how long it’s been since I got one, during which time it’s a n ear certainty there have been incidents closer than that. Mostly I’m curious whether those running the system lit up the whole southeast as a hail Mary or whether some seriously weird techno logical gating is taking place. Like when I get Texas autoparts store results.

If it's technology weirdness, I might gripe, because I about drove off the road. Very tired, very surprised.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > DipodomysDeserti 09/05/2018 at 23:14

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I don’t even live in the area, which is what makes it so dang weird. There is next to no chance somebody in middle TN is going to head East unless they’re making for .. I dunno, DC by a circuitous route. Not an obvious route to big cities and disappearing.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > My bird IS the word 09/05/2018 at 23:20

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This is pretty sane hours compared to the last one, I think. Can’t really recall. I wonder what the breakdown for initial kidnap times actually is, since the alert is, I think, usually after other means have failed.

Of course, why these guys don’t forge a temporary tag or swap a tag and hunker down less than two hours away, I can’t imagine.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/05/2018 at 23:25

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Our amber alerts (and silver alerts) seem to run statewide. So, if there’s an alert that originates in Houston...twelve hours away...every phone in my band room goes off allllll the way in El Paso.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 09/05/2018 at 23:30

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Yeah, I wonder if it might be that a portion of my area code is only about two and a half hours away, and they’re just firing a shotgun. I have a suspicion it’s not an optimized system, but I haven’t been curious enough to ever research it.

12 hours... woof.

smobgirl > facw 09/06/2018 at 00:01

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I mean, once cars are self-driving...just disable it? How will that change crime, I wonder?

My bird IS the word > DipodomysDeserti 09/06/2018 at 12:11

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Generally speaking it’s alot of trash class dads abducting their kids from their moms in a drunken stupor or somesuch. Not pedos, so the kids are usually found ok.

My bird IS the word > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/06/2018 at 12:13

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Mostly because it’s domestic abuse dads (or crazy moms i guess) that take their kids , with some kind of drugs I guess. T hankfully it seems abductions by psychos are in the minority.