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First, there were tears.

And then there was fury.

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As the country woke up to the heartbreaking news that an 11-year-old girl had been murdered — allegedly at the hands of her father — the Amber Alert system came into the spotlight.

Cops in Peel say their switchboard received phone calls after the alert was issued around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.

But it wasn’t the welfare of Brampton girl Riya Rajkumar the callers were concerned about.

It was their sleep.

“Last night was a gross misuse of the #emergencyalert… not only was I bolted awake for the amber alert… I was then jolted two more times for an update and then the the ending if the alert at 12:30 AM… we really needed the alert for updates?” tweeted @jmlovelock.

And @oG_seNseii tweeted:

“I thought my Samsung was going to explode when I got that Amber alert. But to be honest, shouldn’t it take some level of investigation before sending out a city wide “Emergency” Alert.”