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The parents of a Texas boy whose eardrum was 'ripped open' when a screeching Amber Alert came through his AirPods while he was watching a Netflix movie are suing Apple for the boy's permanent hearing loss.
'He loved his hearing,' the boy's mother Ariani Reyes, of San Antonio, said. 'It affected him as an athlete and a student.' The youngster has only been identified as BP in the lawsuit, although pictures of him receiving treatment were included.
Reyes and her husband, Carlos Gordoa, filed suit in Northern California federal court on Monday, claiming their son's athlete future and his academic suffered after suffered permanent hearing loss from blaring alert over the Apple device.
Last year, on May 17, while the 12-year-old boy was watching Netflix on his smartphone with his wireless AirPods in his ears. He had them on low volume, but an Amber Alert was broadcast of a missing child in the area, according to the lawsuit.
Amber Alerts, used to try and track down missing children, emit high pitched screeches to catch phone users'
