Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC 382
New submitter SkiTee94 writes "Many people, perhaps millions, in and around NYC were loudly awoken shortly before 4am this morning by an activation of the Wireless Emergency Alert system. As the New York Times is reporting, the alert was related to an ongoing search for a missing child. Given that the alert asked people to look out for a 'Tan Lexus ES300' with NY Plate 'GEX1377,' many New Yorkers are questioning the logic of waking up the whole city to ask them to look for a car. Normally such alerts are reserved for road-side signs. While emergency authorities have yet to give a precise reason for why the decision was made to wake up the city, many have taken the step of deactivating these alerts to avoid future jolting mid-slumber alarms (likely not the intended result of last night's exercise)."
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
I got a new girlfriend, she is much easier to inflate, so I've been getting laid more. Mellowed me out some.
Re:Phone alerts (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did they find the Lexus? (Score:5, Funny)
Amber keeps getting into strangers cars. When will she ever learn?
Re:Title is correct but didn't clarify. (Score:5, Funny)
Which you'd have known if you had bothered to read some of the messages above you before whining to all of us about how you're an ignorant little git.
Wow, someone's cranky. Did you not get enough sleep last night?
Re:Did they find the Lexus? (Score:4, Funny)
But the candy's so good!
-- Amber
Re:Phone alerts (Score:5, Funny)
Why do the sirens take so long? Are they run by Slashdot?
Slashdot Tornado alarms would ring 2 weeks after the town was devistated, and then a dupe alarm 2 weeks after that. That is if the Javascript loaded at all.