Okay, thanks, I guess.
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I think / hope there was supposed to be a /s at the end of that . . . I long ago learned the hard way that sarcasm isn’t so recognizable in print, by people who don’t know me. Hence emojis and other signals.
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Yep, I slept blissfully through the night, too.
I understood the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” lesson in grade school.
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Most of the ones I’ve seen are almost completely useless. Looking at an example I just found:
“Riverhead, NY AMBER Alert: LIC/(NY) Grey Hyundai Santa Fe SUV Sep 6, 7:24 AM”
Okay, so this one actually includes a municipal area, but that’s not always useful. (Chicago, you say? Well that narrows it right down …) No license plate on this one beyond a state, but even when one is included, I’m not going to remember that in 5 seconds.
Finally, a vehicle description, which might be useful for some people, I guess. I know this one is an SUV because it says so, but I have no idea what that looks like beyond that. For many of us, make and model doesn’t really mean much, and you may as well say “car,” it would be almost as useful.
I’m curious about the number of false reports these things generate and who gets to spend time weeding those out.
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Yeah, those are the sorts I’ve gotten, at best. The kind where the vehicle in question, with the passenger in question, could parade right past me and I’d be none the wiser, even if I was on the lookout. Which I wouldn’t be, at 3am in a different city for something that happened six hours earlier. It seems spectacularly counter-productive to randomly spam out insufficient information (over a broad area at bad times).
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That county is 500 fucking miles away from here; it is located in the Panhandle, SE of Amarillo.
Ah, now it is clear. They are running a Fifedom over there.
Dumb bastards.
Exactly the sort of attitude one expects from the State Brownshirts.
About 40 years ago I ran into a little racket a couple of 'em were running; it didn’t improve my opinion of those that wear a cop costume to work.
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