Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC

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)."

Comments

Re:WTF?

[Lord Apathy]

Yes. My sleep is more important than getting woken up at 4am with an alert telling me about a missing child in a city the size of NYC. Who is going to be looking out their window at that time of the morning?

Oh horse shit. Your just trying to justify your own selfcenteredness and lazyness. They are not asking you to look out the window at 4 am or go looking for a missing child. They are putting the information out there so you will know a child is missing. So maybe sometime during your travels you will be aware of it and perhaps might notice it.

Fuck the child. No wait. Forget the child, it's going to be fucked anyway (presumably that's why it got kidnapped?).

Fuck the child? No, fuck you. Go back to sleep you self centered bastard.