Wireless Amber Alerts

HOW TO SAVE A CHILD FROM MURDER IN UNDER 10 SECONDS

My precious little man is nearing his second birthday. He and I are very much in tune with each other. I know what his busy little mind is thinking most of the time. I also know I feel what he feels when he feels it. So, God forbid any fool ever tried to harm Daddy’s best buddy. The first thing he or she would have to do is take my last breath.

So, please talk to me like I’m a two-year old, okay? I’m a veteran of the creative industry. I know good ideas from bad. But right now I’m dialed in on a major disconnect over why one amazing idea is wallowing in mediocrity.

Many people sign up to receive text messages like sports scores and stock quotes on their cell phone. Many others pay to text votes to their favorite TV shows. Still, many more buy industrial strength plans so they can send and receive thousands of texts, and not burn minutes using their cell phone to actually talk with other humans.

So pass me a juice box and help me to understand why more people haven’t signed up to have FREE wireless Amber Alerts sent to their cell phone? The first three hours following abductions are the most critical in rescuing a child before some severely disturbed soul chooses to commit the heinous acts that severely disturbed souls do.

CTIA, the wireless association estimates that 257 million Americans are wireless subscribers. However, only a paltry 437,000 are signed up to get the FREE text that puts them in the heroic position to save the innocence or life of a precious little boy or girl. I’ll do the math for you…1 in every 588 Americans. On the surface, that is one pitiful statistic. But it’s even worse when you know that the wireless industry and the federal government launched this service in 2006 with a goal of only one million. If the bar were set any lower it wouldn’t even be at limbo height. Still, we’re not even halfway!

It couldn’t be easier to do what you hope someone would have done were it your child in danger. Log onto www.wirelessamberalerts.org. Type in your cell number on the home page. Done. That’s it! It takes longer to log onto eBay for heaven’s sake. You’ll only get an Amber Alert message if it’s in your area. We’re talking one or two a year.

I’ve met John Walsh through work for “America’s Most Wanted.” I told him I don’t know how he does what he does after losing his son, but I’m sure grateful he does it. There’s an average of 250 children abducted every year. You don’t have to do all that John Walsh does to potentially be the hero that helps save one of them. Something is wrong with this picture, but it’s a no-brainer to see how easy it is to fix.

Again, talk to me like I’m a two-year old, okay? Please post a response boasting that you’ve signed up to get FREE Wireless Amber Alerts (and that you’re getting others to sign up too)! Or post a response explaining to me how you could read this blog and not sign up your cell number to get FREE Amber Alerts. Or post a response telling me to stick a binky in my mouth and shut up because it’s just not your problem. Or better yet, try explaining it to parents like John Walsh.

Thank you in advance for taking a chance to be a child’s hero.

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