Texas authorities apologise for repeatedly putting out accidental ‘amber alert’ for Child’s Play’s Chucky
Department of Public Safety put it out while running a test on server
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Your support makes all the difference.Texas authorities have apologised for issuing an emergency Amber Alert featuring killer Child’s Play doll Chucky.
The Texas Department of Public Safety accidentally sent out the message last week featuring the horror series villain and his fictional child, Glen.
In the message it described the suspect Chucky as wearing “blue denim overalls with multi-colored striped long sleeve shirt wielding a huge kitchen knife."
His race was listed as "Other: Doll.”
"Thank you for contacting us. This was actually a test we were running on a dev server and it accidentally went out," said Ruben Medina of DPS.
"We appreciate you reaching out to us to verify this. We do apologise for this inconvenience.”
Glen Ray, the main character in the 2004 movie Seed of Chucky, was listed as the abductee, and was described as having a "blue shirt and black collar."
After the alert mistakenly went out, Don Mancini, the director, and writer who created the Chucky character took to Twitter and wrote, ”PLEASE FIND THEM.”
The nationwide Amber Alert system was named after a Texas girl, Amber Hagerman, who was abducted and killed in January 1996.
Officials say that as of December 2020 1,029 children had been recovered using the alert system.
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