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  • #3316
    It seems like every single Amber Alert involves a non-custodial parent taking a kid. And it seems like they're all resolved within a very short period of time without the Amber Alert being of any help. Last night at around 4AM an Amber Alert was issued by South Salt Lake that went to the ENTIRE state. The thing is, the police neglected to actually put any information into the alert. They must have known I forgot to put my phone on silent last night.

    While I know that non-custodial parent abductions take place around 1000x more often than a true stranger kidnapping, wasn't the stranger kidnapping the real impetus behind the Amber Alerts? A few years ago, they sent out an Amber Alert when a parent who has partial custody was an hour late turning a kid back over to the other parent. This kind of shit has to stop or people are just going to ignore these things or turn off the notifications, if possible.
    Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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    • #3317
      Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
      It seems like every single Amber Alert involves a non-custodial parent taking a kid. And it seems like they're all resolved within a very short period of time without the Amber Alert being of any help. Last night at around 4AM an Amber Alert was issued by South Salt Lake that went to the ENTIRE state. The thing is, the police neglected to actually put any information into the alert. They must have known I forgot to put my phone on silent last night.

      While I know that non-custodial parent abductions take place around 1000x more often than a true stranger kidnapping, wasn't the stranger kidnapping the real impetus behind the Amber Alerts? A few years ago, they sent out an Amber Alert when a parent who has partial custody was an hour late turning a kid back over to the other parent. This kind of shit has to stop or people are just going to ignore these things or turn off the notifications, if possible.
      My phone was on silent and still went off. I'm gonna have to find the setting to fix that.

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      • #3318
        Originally posted by Bo Diddley View Post
        My phone was on silent and still went off. I'm gonna have to find the setting to fix that.
        I have the Do Not Disturb function on my iPhone between midnight and 5:00 am, and my phone did not make a sound. My wife does not, so hers did go off and scared us both.

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        • #3319
          Originally posted by Bo Diddley View Post
          My phone was on silent and still went off. I'm gonna have to find the setting to fix that.
          You can always power it off. That is guaranteed to work.

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          • #3320
            Originally posted by chrisrenrut View Post
            I have the Do Not Disturb function on my iPhone between midnight and 5:00 am, and my phone did not make a sound. My wife does not, so hers did go off and scared us both.
            That's what I had on as well. I think settings are programmed in from the carrier. All I could do was turn off Amber Alerts altogether. And good riddance!

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            • #3321
              Originally posted by Scott R Nelson View Post
              You can always power it off. That is guaranteed to work.
              I was using it to monitor my pork roast and the smoker. If the smoker were to go out (I've only ever had that happen once) I want to know so i can fix it. Also, if i overslept and the roast reached temperature (more likely) I'd want to know that as well.

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              • #3322
                Reading the comments in KSL, the last three Amber Alerts in Utah have been the following:

                1. Last night's which had NO information attached to it;

                2. One that included merely "gry tyt" in the description;

                3. No information in the alert other than to dial 511.

                What a bunch of idiots. I turned the Amber Alerts off altogether on my phone.
                Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                • #3323
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                  • #3324
                    Does anybody know - am I safe from receiving Amber Alerts if my phone number has an area code from a different state?

                    My wife and I never bothered changing our cell numbers when we left California. It seems that about 25% of people in our area have phone numbers with different area codes than the local area code. And will someone with an 801 area code receive these Amber alerts if they now live in Idaho?

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                    • #3325
                      This is from the last idiotic Amber Alert. I have no idea who Damon Talbot, but this makes sense.

                      Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                      • #3326
                        Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
                        Reading the comments in KSL, the last three Amber Alerts in Utah have been the following:

                        1. Last night's which had NO information attached to it;

                        2. One that included merely "gry tyt" in the description;

                        3. No information in the alert other than to dial 511.

                        What a bunch of idiots. I turned the Amber Alerts off altogether on my phone.
                        A little girl is with her biological mother!!

                        Let’s send an alert to every phone in Utah and surrounding states at 3:30 AM.

                        (Haven’t they studied Swampfrog’s data?! The kid is just fine statistically speaking.)

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                        • #3327
                          Originally posted by CardiacCoug View Post
                          A little girl is with her biological mother!!

                          Let’s send an alert to every phone in Utah and surrounding states at 3:30 AM.

                          (Haven’t they studied Swampfrog’s data?! The kid is just fine statistically speaking.)

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                          • #3328
                            You can turn off amber alerts. I haven’t received one in a long time.
                            "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                            • #3329
                              Until yesterday, I didn't know low voltage wires do not have polarity. Or they probably do to some extent, just that it isn't important when you connect an outdoor light fixture. Don't @ me, I can't remember the physics equations.
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                              • #3330
                                Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
                                It seems like every single Amber Alert involves a non-custodial parent taking a kid. And it seems like they're all resolved within a very short period of time without the Amber Alert being of any help. Last night at around 4AM an Amber Alert was issued by South Salt Lake that went to the ENTIRE state. The thing is, the police neglected to actually put any information into the alert. They must have known I forgot to put my phone on silent last night.

                                While I know that non-custodial parent abductions take place around 1000x more often than a true stranger kidnapping, wasn't the stranger kidnapping the real impetus behind the Amber Alerts? A few years ago, they sent out an Amber Alert when a parent who has partial custody was an hour late turning a kid back over to the other parent. This kind of shit has to stop or people are just going to ignore these things or turn off the notifications, if possible.
                                I slept through it, which is amazing because I am a relatively light sleeper and the alerts are loud as hell. What good is an Amber Alert with no information?

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