Amber Alert For Killer Doll 'Chucky' Goes Out In Texas By Mistake

AUSTIN, TX — Amber Alerts are serious, often issued in life-and-death situations when children under 17 are missing. No one laughs. But when the Texas Department of Public Safety tested its Amber Alert system, it tickled the funny bone of what seems like the entire World Wide Web delighting in the absurdity of it all.

The suspect was Chucky. Chucky — the creepy, scary, make-you-wet-your-pants-in-fright doll from the 1988 horror film “Child’s Play.” The alert said the killer doll kidnapped his evil spawn, 5-year-old Glen Ray, featured in “Seed of Chucky.”

And watch out. The 3-foot, 1-inch doll in blue denim overalls and a multi-colored long-sleeved shirt was wielding “a huge kitchen knife,” the emailed alert said. His race was listed as: “Other: Doll.”

Both Chucky and Glen were described in great detail.

How in the name of holy terror did this happen isn’t the question.

The question is, how did the Chucky Amber Alert go out a second time?

And the question also is, how did this happen a third time before someone put a stop to it?

It’s like this, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in an apology: The system malfunctioned.

“This alert is a result of a test malfunction,” the agency said in a statement to news station KENS. “We apologize for the confusion this may have caused and are diligently working to ensure this does not happen again.”

It’s unclear how many Texas Department of Public Safety subscribers received the alert.
But the internet was grateful.

And so was Don Mancini, the creator of Chucky, who implored on Twitter, PLEASE FIND THEM.”