Amber Alert

The other day, I was working at the computer, listening to the radio, and the "beep-beep-beep" that precedes that Alberta Emergency Warning System came on over the radio. I was surprised because it's not tornado season! But no... they were using the system to issue an amber alert for a missing 12 year old boy who hadn't come home from school and was apparently "abducted" by his mother. It really is a great system... To think that everyone listening to the radio or to the television is instantly informed of the make and model of the car with the license plate... All of a sudden there are millions of vigilant eyes in the province looking for exactly the same thing... Definitely a valuable tool for the RCMP and other police forces... Eventually, I could see that being extended so that an alert text would be sent to all cell phone holders in the province... Talk about wide-spread coverage...