diff --git a/classes/Notice.php b/classes/Notice.php
index 482bc550b9..ae7e2e5402 100644
--- a/classes/Notice.php
+++ b/classes/Notice.php
@@ -90,7 +90,13 @@ class Notice extends Memcached_DataObject
 
     function getProfile()
     {
-        return Profile::staticGet('id', $this->profile_id);
+        $profile = Profile::staticGet('id', $this->profile_id);
+
+        if (empty($profile)) {
+            throw new ServerException(sprintf(_('No such profile (%d) for notice (%d)'), $this->profile_id, $this->id));
+        }
+
+        return $profile;
     }
 
     function delete()
diff --git a/lib/apiaction.php b/lib/apiaction.php
index 16dd878142..01985f0db3 100644
--- a/lib/apiaction.php
+++ b/lib/apiaction.php
@@ -462,10 +462,6 @@ class ApiAction extends Action
     {
         $profile = $notice->getProfile();
 
-        if (empty($profile)) {
-            throw new ServerException(sprintf(_('No such profile: %d'), $notice->profile_id));
-        }
-
         $entry = array();
 
         // We trim() to avoid extraneous whitespace in the output
@@ -798,7 +794,7 @@ class ApiAction extends Action
                     $entry = $this->twitterRssEntryArray($n);
                     $this->showTwitterRssItem($entry);
                 } catch (Exception $e) {
-                    common_log(LOG_ERR, "Error with notice {$n->id}: " . $e->getMessage());
+                    common_log(LOG_ERR, $e->getMessage());
                     // continue on exceptions
                 }
             }
@@ -808,7 +804,7 @@ class ApiAction extends Action
                     $entry = $this->twitterRssEntryArray($notice);
                     $this->showTwitterRssItem($entry);
                 } catch (Exception $e) {
-                    common_log(LOG_ERR,  "Error with notice {$n->id}: " . $e->getMessage());
+                    common_log(LOG_ERR, $e->getMessage());
                     // continue on exceptions
                 }
             }