Poll of the Day > I've had Amber Alerts disabled for years

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The last time went off, I had my phone under my pillow and on (we were filming night shoots and while I wasn't :working", I'm usually on call to a certain degree).

Shit went off at it's typical max volume. I jolted out of bed at 3:40AM because, fuck I don't know, I thought a nuke warning was going off and was getting an alert or something. I just started running out of my room and down the hall, not even really awake. I hurt my leg pretty badly, pulled a muscle that took weeks to work out. Couldn't go back to sleep and had to work a 12 hour day.

After that, I said fuck it, I'm turning this off. Come at me. I ain't doing the below (and yes, I know Amber Alerts actually help and work):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Ek1nWndTg

I turned all alarms off on my phone.

If I could turn hem off I would.

__starsnostars posted...

If I could turn hem off I would.

I had to google to figure out where to go, but I'm pretty sure you can turn off everything except maybe the presidential one?

I am Canadian, as far as I know there isn't any way to turn them off.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I had to google to figure out where to go, but I'm pretty sure you can turn off everything except maybe the presidential one?

This, that's the only one that can't be disabled. But I guess different counties may have different requirements.

I assume most amber alerts are for parental disputes, but I could be wrong.

Am I supposed to dawn my cape and search for the red grand caravan?

Same. Got tired of the random alarms i did not ask for. The fact that most of them were located in places over 2 hours away or places i had never even heard of didnt help either.