Remember the Joker push alert? Here are 6 faux alerts we imagine could be sitting in a drafts folder

Illustration by Elias Stein

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Our 2022 bingo card had no square for “emergency push alert warning of Joker on the loose” but that’s our bad, because earlier this year, the Missouri Highway Patrol inadvertently sent precisely those words to cell phone users statewide. “GOTHAM CITY MO PURPLE/GREEN 1978 DODGE 3700GT MO UKIDME” read the alert. It prompted some of us (Hi!) to Google where exactly Gotham City, Missouri, is located. Maybe you thought the mistake was embarrassing. Maybe you pitied the poor movie buff who, uh, seemingly pushed the wrong button. Maybe you thought, like one local Twitter user, that it was “the coolest thing to happen to Missouri since I moved here.”

Whatever the case, we’d love to know more about what’s inside the drafts folder of the emergency alert system. Here’s what we imagine could be in it.

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