Horror-ble Mistake: Texas DPS Accidentally Pushes Amber Alert For ‘Chucky’ Doll

AUSTIN, Texas (CBSFW.COM) – The Texas Department of Public Safety sent out a mistaken Amber Alert like no other on Friday, Jan. 29.


The message published from the Texas Alerts system with an Amber Alert for Chucky the doll and his child, Glen.


The alert listed Chucky from Child’s Play horror movies as a suspect.



He was described as a 28-year-old with red, auburn hair, blue eyes, stands at 3’1″, and weighs 16 pounds. He was described as wearing blue denim overalls with a multi-colored striped long sleeve shirt and wielding a kitchen knife prior to his disappearance.

(credit: Texas DPS)

The alert also listed Glen as an abducted child who is 5 years old, weighs 6 pounds, stands at 2’3″, and also has red, auburn hair and blue eyes. Glen was described as wearing a blue shirt and black collar prior to his “disappearance.”


The alert was emailed out three separate times to subscribers of the Texas Alerts System Friday.


Multiple media outlets contacted DPS for comment and received this response:


“This alert is a result of a test malfunction. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused and are diligently working to ensure this does not happen again.”

Horror-ble Mistake: Texas DPS Accidentally Pushes Amber Alert For 'Chucky' Doll

The alert was emailed out three separate times to subscribers of the Texas Alerts System last Friday.

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[Sped Xing]

The Department of Public Safety is as insane as the Committee of Public Safety.

Striped-legged Roadroaches.

 

[Screw Danlon]

It was probably just a system test with an obviously fake child so that if, as it appears is the case, something wasn’t working correctly, it wouldn’t cause an actual panic.

the fact that multiple news outlets tried to make a story out of this just proves that more journalists need to be fired.

 

[That_Guy]

What that guy said.

Maybe it's a bad joke that got fired off unintentionally, But it's a really good idea. It's a dummy load that can get set up like the real thing and used for testing in places where a broadcast accidently going out might happen. It looks bad, But nobody got cuffed-and-stuffed for matching a description on a less silly looking set of test data.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

It was probably just a system test with an obviously fake child so that if, as it appears is the case, something wasn’t working correctly, it wouldn’t cause an actual panic.

I've seen jails use a broom (or other object) as a stand in for an actual prisoner when testing if their booking system is functioning properly, From the taking of a mugshot, to the records system, to actually publishing the info online. If journalists ever ran across it, I have no doubt that they would try to make a story out of a common testing procedure.