Public Safety Alert Last Night?

Did anyone else get a Public Safety Alert Last Night on their iPhone? The message stated “Missing Vulnerable Adult Found” This was at 10:15PM. (TC Metro MN area)

The strange thing about this alert is it overrode all of my iPhone settings. I have alerts turned off and silence my ringer at the end of the day. This alarm was at full volume on both my phone and my wife’s phone with a never heard before screeching/bleeping sound!

You would have thought we were being bombed by Russia. But no, useless information that got me up and out of bed to see WTF was going on.

Anyone else?

-J.

Jon Jordan wrote:

The strange thing about this alert is it overrode all of my iPhone settings.

I didnt get it, but that isnt strange at all. Those public service announcements do that such as Amber Alerts etc. There is a planned one coming on oct 4th as a National test so dont be alarmed when that happens.

Didn’t get the one you are talking about but got an amber alert last fall about 9am while I was sitting in a tree bow hunting. Started scrambling digging through layers trying to shut it off. Thankfully there wasn’t a buck standing in front of me.
I get the point of it but it should not override my settings.

Red Eye wrote:

I get the point of it but it should not override my settings.

I guess I am going to be that guy here, so sorry. What if the amber alert was about your daughter or grand daughter. Wouldn’t you want the message to get out no matter if you screwed up someone’s hunt. I do understand why it would upset someone, but in the big picture I guess I think its a good thing.

John Rasmussen wrote:

I guess I am going to be that guy here, so sorry. What if the amber alert was about your daughter or grand daughter. Wouldn’t you want the message to get out no matter if you screwed up someone’s hunt. I do understand why it would upset someone, but in the big picture I guess I think its a good thing.

I agree with this 100%. It might be an inconvenience or irritating for a couple seconds but in the grand scheme of things its a good thing.

While I can agree with the above scenario… (I remember the alert I received when my cousins grand daughter, Alayna Ertl went missing ) …. Alerting about an adult, that you didn’t know was missing in the first place in the middle of the night is a stretch and abuse of the system and its intended use.

I hope they found your cousins grand daughter Big G. I agree there probably was not a need to blast an alert about a found missing adult even though vulnerable, I assume they had the family’s contact and were just letting people that may have been searching for them to stop and that could have waited until the morning at the very least.

They did, but it was a terrible outcome.

Alayna

big_g wrote:

They did, but it was a terrible outcome.

OMG Big_g! They should have just put a bullet in that SOB

John Rasmussen wrote:

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I get the point of it but it should not override my settings.

I guess I am going to be that guy here, so sorry. What if the amber alert was about your daughter or grand daughter. Wouldn’t you want the message to get out no matter if you screwed up someone’s hunt. I do understand why it would upset someone, but in the big picture I guess I think its a good thing.

I’m not saying the notification should not be used. I think it is a great thing. But I can still fell the vibration in my pocket when my phone is set to silent. And as far as the notification that day. It was from the south metro if I remember right and I was in northern MN.

I didn’t get it but if I did often in the middle of the night I would start powering my phone down when I went to bed.

big_g wrote:

They did, but it was a terrible outcome.

Wow thats horrible and disgusting. Agree with CaptainMusky bullet in the head is what he deserves and that would be the nice thing to do

crappie55369 wrote:

Wow thats horrible and disgusting. Agree with CaptainMusky bullet in the head is what he deserves and that would be the nice thing to do

They should be doing a lot more of that IMO. Waste of our hard earned money to keep them around.

Red Eye wrote:

I get the point of it but it should not override my settings.

You can turn off Amber Alerts, Public Safety Alerts, and System Test Alerts in your notification settings.

big_g wrote:

They did, but it was a terrible outcome

Sorry to hear that bud. We really need to have capitol punishment in cases like these. What a piece of garbage.

Damn Big G. I’m sorry you and your family had to go through something that awful. I can’t imagine having to deal with something like that.

I never get the vulnerable adult and sometimes don’t get Amber alerts, but I always get the Silver Fox alerts for old people and their missing Buicks.

Bullet in the head…… X10

So very sorry for you and your family big g. That is just tragic.
That pervert should of been executed but before that he should of been castrated with a pair of dull scissors.

Big-G, I remember when that happened.

There is a special place in hell for people like that, and an even more special place in heaven for children.

If I could give you a hug right now I would

To hell with a bullet in the head!

Castration without anesthesia and weekly “five minute alone” sessions for everyone affected who wants to participate, for life.

Sorry G

And yeah I got the alert. Made a (bad) joke to my buddy right then, saying, “you can relax, they found me.”