I have a friend in a retirement home. She is 85 years old. And like me every now and then she has to contend with her phone scaring her out of her wits with a loud siren like a French police raid. Why the hell does she have to be exposed to an Amber Alert? Why do any of us have to put up with it when we have no intentions of going out in search of the abductor? Who is the moron who came up with this system? It is one thing to have a lighted highway sign to inform motorists that they might cross paths with a child abductor, but there is no reason in the world to alert every phone in Christendom, especially if you insist on alarming every resident with a high-pitched screaming alarm.