RSSWhat is Wrong with People? Could Some Possibly be More Selfish and Self-Absorbed? … Complaining About an Amber Alert!
There are some people in Arizona who should be ashamed of themselves. You know who 
you are. An Amber Alert was issued on Monday in Arizona for the abduction of 1 year old Isidro Ramirez and his mother 20 year old Noemi Ramirez. The Amber Alert was broadcast on local Arizona TV. Believe it or not, people actually called the TV station to complain that their programming had been interrupted. Unbelievable.
Heaven forbid it be their child. How could a stupid TV show be that important to anyone over a missing person? When did people become some rotten and self-centered. The president & CEO of that station said the complaints fell on deaf ears … should have told them to suck eggs.
An Amber Alert interrupted prime-time television Monday, cutting into such popular shows as 24 and Heroes, much to the chagrin of viewers, many of whom complained.
The alert was issued for 1-year-old Isidro Ramirez, who was abducted along with his mother around 4:30 a.m. Monday.
To Art Brooks, the president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association and the state coordinator for Amber Alert, the complaints fall on deaf ears.
“If you’re the parent of that child, don’t you want it on as quickly as you can get it on?” he said. “End of story.” Viewers can see last night’s episode of 24 at myfoxphoenix.com; Heroes can be seen at nbc.com/Video/rewind. (AZ Central)
Posted February 2, 2007 by Scared Monkeys Amber Alert, Child Welfare, Missing Persons, WTF | 6 comments |
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So disheartening how many in our country have chosen to be selfish Consumer’s rather than caring American’s.
Apathy is a dangerous state of being & it appears to be on an alarming increase within our current population regardless of it’s consequences to us ALL.
You know I like “24″ just like everyone else… BUT….breaking in for an Amber alert is important!!!! It not some trash “politico” stuff that can wait until the news. People who complained — draw a deep breath and remember what is real and what is fiction — besides in a few months you will be able to buy this season “24″ and enjoy it “uninterupted” if you so chose.
Oh those complainers are the same people who won’t get their asses off the couch in front of the Tv, when their own kids need help.
I hope none of these people live in my neighborhood.
there are 2 kinds of people in the world. Movers and shakers and those that only move when they are awaken by a shake.
GO BEARS
Excerpt: To Art Brooks, the president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association and the state coordinator for Amber Alert, the complaints fall on deaf ears. “If you’re the parent of that child, don’t you want it on as quickly as you can get it on?” he said. “End of story.”
It was reported that the abduction occurred at 4:30AM and that the witness to the abduction, Noemi Ramirez’s roommate, told Noemi’s mother. But Noemi’s mother did not report the abduction of her daughter and grandson to the police until 2:00PM, almost 10 hours after the abduction, “because she only spoke Spanish and was trying to find a translator,” though it is common knowledge that Maricopa County 911 operators are multilingual. So something is askew there. It certainly was not reported “quickly.”
It was also reported that the Amber Alert aired about 8:30PM, 4 and 1/2 hours after the abduction was reported and 16 hours after the abduction occurred. Something is askew there too. The Amber Alert was certainly not aired “quickly.”
But there is something else that is not reported about airing this Amber Alert, something grievously amiss. The TV program “Heroes” was interrupted when the Amber Alert aired, but, before the Amber Alert aired in it’s entirety, the Amber Alert was interrupted by a commercial break and then the Amber Alert resumed airing from the beginning of the alert broadcast after the commercial break ended.
And if all that does not rattle your cage, here is another tidbit that is reported. “It appears there wasn’t an abduction after all.”
http://tinyurl.com/2co83v
Although it is questionable, at this point, whether there was an abduction. The reaction of some to an Amber Alert being broadcast during their favorite show, is insensitive
to the needs of others. Television is a form of entertainment but it is also a means to broadcast public information in the case of emergercy. Shame on those that think that their entertainment is more important than the many emergencies that effect the lives of many in our world, today.
I hope the mother and her child are safe in California. I pray that one wouldn’t use the emergency systems, that have been put in place to protect our families, as a control mechanism by a mother against her unruly daughter.
But, then again, I can certainly understand that a mother
may consider her daughter in danger if she is last seen
saying that she is going to California with someone that
is known to be violent or uses drugs. You just never
know about people these days… he could be a rapist or a murderer and our daughters think everything is all right
even when it’s not.
Mothers, where are your daughters?