# "Multicolored bear with ruffles": Amber Alert hack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648 "2024-10-11T01:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/1 "2024-10-11T01:09:25Z")
I just got an Amber Alert on my phone for a “multicolored bear with ruffles”. Anyone have any idea what that was about? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/2 "2024-10-11T01:13:03Z")
Turkey trots to water… the world wonders. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/3 "2024-10-11T01:18:32Z")
I understood that reference. @Chronos, could it have been a reference to a toy ? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/4 "2024-10-11T01:19:14Z")
I mean, yeah, it does sound like a description of a teddy bear… but that doesn’t explain anything. Why would there be an amber alert for a lost toy? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/5 "2024-10-11T01:19:39Z")
Might that be a description of what the child was believed to last be wearing? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/6 "2024-10-11T01:21:20Z")
> **[Cleveland Amber Alert: 3-month-old girl allegedly abducted by presumed father](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/cleveland-amber-alert-3-month-old-girl-allegedly-abducted-by-father/95-f1001939-645c-4a16-b410-e91c6b787d80)** > > Three-month-old Chyla Smiley was allegedly abducted from 1892 Mannering Road by Jackeel Kemorian La Priest Taylor, 28, who police say is believed to be her father. > She has brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a multi-colored Care Bears outfit with ruffles. ETA, there’s a few other news reports out about it and at least one reddit thread asking the same question. I’m guessing something get screwed up and the wrong snippet of the alert is what got sent out to everyone. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1g0y8tq/amber\_alert\_for\_a\_bear/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1g0y8tq/amber_alert_for_a_bear/) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/7 "2024-10-11T01:25:00Z")
Here’s the actual Amber Alert. > **[Have you seen this child? Chyla Smiley](https://www.missingkids.org/poster/AMBER/31435/14960/screen)** > > Missing From: Cleveland, OH. Missing Date: Thu, Oct 10 2024. AMBER Alert: Chyla Smiley, age 3 month last seen wearing a multicolor bear with ruffles. Be on the lookout for a silver 2016, Chevy Cruise OH plate KBJ6916. Suspect, Jackeel Kemorian La... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/8 "2024-10-11T01:38:42Z")
OK, that explains it, then. I guess someone was trying too hard for brevity. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/9 "2024-10-11T03:03:12Z")
Yeah, it’s all over the Cleveland reddit. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/10 "2024-10-11T03:18:00Z")
Reading the thread, I see that it’s not the case, but based on the OP, I was actually picturing the Grateful Dead bears: [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDI2WDE1OTk=/z/8RMAAOSwZ1BXfEjx/$_57.JPG?set_id=8800005007) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDI2WDE1OTk=/z/8RMAAOSwZ1BXfEjx/$_57.JPG?set_id=8800005007) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multicolored-bear-with-ruffles-amber-alert-hack/1008648/11 "2024-10-11T15:41:46Z")
Which are on the t-shirt I am wearing under today’s Hawaiian shirt. The front has Jerry bears frolicking in a forest. The caption says “What do you do if you see bears in the woods?” The back of the shirt has the answer: “Play Dead.”