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Cake day: March 23rd, 2026

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  • Don’t feel too sorry. For most Amber alerts, the child was never in any real danger (often some custody battle thing where a parent “stole” the kid, often to try to protect them), or, by the time the alert went out, it was already too late. I went and looked it up and it’s not clear if there’s ever been a case where Amber alerts actually helped to save a kid. If there has been, it’s extremely rare. In some ways, they actually hurt because the police get flooded with a bunch of reports that are just wrong.