Won’t somebody please think of the children?
Emergency Broadcast System message today:
EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
Issued an alert for the following counties… Alameda County… Effective until 10/17/2006 18:57:00
Broadcast Station
or Cable System
Issued aChild Abduction Emergency
Less than thirty seconds afterward, they issue it again, this time adding Contra Costa, Sonoma, and Santa Clara counties. There’s no information provided about the names or descriptions of those involved. Despite television being a visual medium, no pictures. Useless. And not to dismiss the seriousness of kidnapping or anything, but is it really an emergency? Most of these kidnapping emergencies usually are child custody disputes anyway, where the children aren’t in any imminent danger.
Also, apparently the Emergency Broadcast System on cable television also cuts off cable Internet access. What the heck?
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So, did you give the child back?
— Kevin @ October 17, 2006, 7:09 pm (PT)
After they interrupt my television show and disconnect me from the Internet? Hell no.
— James @ October 17, 2006, 7:14 pm (PT)