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(56,582 posts) Sun Mar 17, 2013, 09:20 PM Mar 2013

Silver alert? This is a thing? [View all]

I mean, it certainly seems like a good idea, I'd just never heard of them until one was on the traffic advisory sign on the beltway.

Do they not happen often, or have I just been missing them?

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Silver alert? This is a thing? [View all] Recursion Mar 2013 OP

Less common than Amber hootinholler Mar 2013 #1

Is that like an amber alert, but at the other end marybourg Mar 2013 #2

A Code Silver is an active shooter in a healthcare setting rustydog Mar 2013 #3

For those not aware, silver alerts are amber alerts for elderly people. Kurska Mar 2013 #4

I have never seen or heard of them. Thanks for sharing the info. I'm a senior and it's good to southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #9

20 states currently do Kurska Mar 2013 #10

Thank you for sharing. I'm headed to the site. southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #18

Good idea! Like it. rustydog Mar 2013 #15

Very common jehop61 Mar 2013 #5

I thought that it meant trouble at Skyfall Orrex Mar 2013 #6

this is an offshoot of the project lifesaver i believe loli phabay Mar 2013 #7

I thought Nate was comming out with a new set of predictions. HubertHeaver Mar 2013 #8

We get them all the time down here in South Florida kdmorris Mar 2013 #11

AKA "God's waiting room" dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #14

ROFL n/t kdmorris Mar 2013 #16

Didn't know they were called Silver Alerts dem in texas Mar 2013 #12

we have it in Suffolk County ny Danmel Mar 2013 #13

Less publicized. n/t AngryOldDem Mar 2013 #17

We seem to have one at least once a month or so. CBGLuthier Mar 2013 #19