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Emergency Phone Numbers
Inspired by the parents home phone number
1. Who has an emergency phone number registered on their mobile that you've put there just in case you get found injured in a ditch or summat and whoever finds you needs a number to call?
2. If you had to go through someone's phone to find a number to call, how would you find one to pick?
2 anecdotes:
My friend Dan from uni once accidentally set of the emergency text message facility on his phone while he was on holiday. The message said something like: "I have been kidnapped or am in danger. Please call the police." and got sent to a few of his close friends. Everyone flipped out and he wasn't able to put things to rest right away because he was on holiday. What a plonker.
My mate John got a call from someone at a club , on the phone of a guy he was seeing saying that the guy was parasitically drunk and covered in sick and that my friend should come and pick him up.
Emergency phone calls!
1. No
And if I did, I have a password so someone wouldn't be able to get it.
2. I'd go to their texts and tell from there if they have a partner
Oh yeah, I forgot about phoen passwords. Kind of pointless to a have an emergency number as everyone has a password.
who has a password/code/shape
not me.
Getting parasitically drunk
is a lot cheaper.
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911 works too!
no worries
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Oh are we posting our passwords so other DiSers can unlock our phone if they find us in a ditch.
ICE
but yes, pointless if the phone is locked.
what's ICE?
y'know, Vanilla Ice. If ya got a problem, yo he'll solve it.
MC Hammer fan, eh
It was something the emergency services recommended
In Case of Emergency. Presumably not many people know anyone called Ice unless they know Mr Cool Ice
Under both party planner and bounty hunter?
:D
A phone I used to have had an 'SOS Message' on it.
Read something like *I am in an emergency. Please send assistance* or words to that effect.
If you turned the feature on, pressing the 'volume down' button 5 times whilst the phone was locked would instantly bombard a contact(s) of your choice.
Was great fun spamming my mates with it.
Yeah that was exaclty it. What a ridiculous feature.
What did you bombard people with?
It would send them that message over and over again until you turned the option off
I doubt anyone ever used it for any other reason than irritating their mates.
1. No, but I have a card a carry around in my wallet.
Work gave it to me, I think if you ring it whoever answers would probably help though.
2. Parents or home. When I left my phone in a taxi once the guys who found it called my mum, who called my girlfriend who told me who'd found it and I was reunited with my phone within an hour.
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1. In the favourites section of my contacts there are two entries (Home & gf) with (I.C.E.) after the name.
2. Home would be the first thing I'd look for. Then what meo said about texts.
But what if you call the person that they're sending flirty txts to and it turns out to be their mistress/whatever the female equivalent is?!
i reckon if i went through someone's phone to find someone to call
i'd just use the most recently called number