This comment has the test timing backwards, but is otherwise correct that these alerts are used way too often and are set to make phones behave way too severely. I completely disabled them after I got woken up by some garbage AMBER Alert at 3 AM, and some other time when my phone deafened me to alert me to some road flooding across town. Feels crummy to disable what could be a genuinely useful feature, but you blew it, boy who cried wolf. They're all off now and will be for the rest of my life.
In Texas they send "Blue Alerts" whenever a criminal shoots a cop or something.
Terrible as it is in reality, getting one of these for an event over a THOUSAND MILES away boils my blood so fast that I feel the desire to absolutely ruin the life of the person who chose to send it out and everyone who enabled them along the way.
Just wait until you find out that the child in that garbage amber alert was never in any danger, and was merely stuck in a custody dispute between two quarreling parents. Most amber alerts are just one parent taking their own child from the other parent. I have no reason to believe that the police are on the right side of such a custody dispute so I will never participate in an Amber alert.
