Potential Life Saving Procedures

"chilly" wrote in message news:tojGe.62856$5V4.61208@pd7tw3no...
> Why on earth, would I have an entry labeled "Home" on my cell phone?

To call your significant other who might be at your home?

To call home to check messages on your answering machine?

To help you find the damn portable phone while you are at home, but before
it's batteries run down?

"chilly" wrote in message news:5sjGe.64643$s54.18557@pd7tw2no...
> I think these people are trying to ensure that if they get blown up by
> terrorists in a train tunnel, it will be easier to identify their little
> bits.

No, they're trying to ensure that whatever is left of their bits gets routed
to the right person...

In article <tojGe.62856$5V4.61208@pd7tw3no>, chilly
<slarson@shaw.canada> wrote:

€ "Grumman-581" <grumman###@gmail.com> wrote in message
€ news:QSiGe.219005$nG6.97089@attbi_s22...
€ > "chilly" wrote in message news:IGiGe.62813$5V4.50271@pd7tw3no...
€ > > My thoughts exactly.
€ >
€ > If you have an entry labeled 'Home' on your cell phone, then it might be
€ > possible for someone to do a reverse lookup on it and find out where you
€ > live... If you are attacked at your home, it is unlikely that it will be
€ > because someone found your cell phone, it's more likely to be because you
€ > were followed after having attracted attention some other way -- flashy
€ car,
€ > flashing cash, wearing a gold Rolex, or just a Scarlet V on your
€ forehead...
€
€ Why on earth, would I have an entry labeled "Home" on my cell phone?
€

Because the phone uses the caller ID data and the phonebook information
to identify an incoming caller. Calls from my home landline show up as
"HOME" on the caller ID window. These calls almost always get
answsered, lest I incurr the wrath of my wife or daughters when I get
home .

Alan

"Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:280720052348402547%agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com ...
> In article <tojGe.62856$5V4.61208@pd7tw3no>, chilly
> ?
> ? Why on earth, would I have an entry labeled "Home" on my cell phone?
> ?
>
> Because the phone uses the caller ID data and the phonebook information
> to identify an incoming caller. Calls from my home landline show up as
> "HOME" on the caller ID window. These calls almost always get
> answsered, lest I incurr the wrath of my wife or daughters when I get
> home .

My point was, assuming that I'm not one to be blown up in a London Metro
tunnel, there's no reason for me to have all that info available on my cell.

Me, I rarely carry my cell around with me, especially when I'm out
socializing. My friends OTOH, almost always carry their cells with them and
I can't even count how many times they've lost them.

About a year (and probably a bit) ago, a friend of mine left her purse with
cell behind in one of our favorite watering holes. Within 24 hours, a bad
guy had presented her cell to get it reassigned to him. The bad guy was not
arrested nor suffered any penalty for his attempt at bad behavior. The cell
company just took the phone from him and advised my pal that it had been
recovered.

I'm single and so are the majority of my friends. Ergo, there's a lot of
single behavior that goes along with that. I'm still confused as to why
most of them have to keep that cell phone thing going on. Just about every
one of them has lost (or had borrowed, stolen) the cell phone more than
once. Not me, if I'm already hanging out with my crew, why do I need to have
my cell sitting out on the bar?

But all that said, obviously I'm an old fashioned gal, and it still seems to
me that if anyone needs to get hold of me that badly, they'll already have
called before I go out for the evening.



>
> Alan

"Grumman-581" <grumman###@gmail.com> wrote in
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> "chilly" wrote in message news:5sjGe.64643$s54.18557@pd7tw2no...
>> I think these people are trying to ensure that if they get blown up
>> by terrorists in a train tunnel, it will be easier to identify their
>> little bits.
>
> No, they're trying to ensure that whatever is left of their bits gets
> routed to the right person...
>
>
>
>

Yup, it's not life saving it's identifying your next of kin so that they
get a valid address for the for the bag of mush they've collected.

--
Stef the pragmatist

Hope for the best
Plan for the worst

Sometimes the glass is half-full; most of the time I’m waiting for a
refill.

Stef wrote:
> "Grumman-581" <grumman###@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:TAjGe.218872$xm3.116921@attbi_s21:
>
>
>>"chilly" wrote in message news:5sjGe.64643$s54.18557@pd7tw2no...
>>
>>>I think these people are trying to ensure that if they get blown up
>>>by terrorists in a train tunnel, it will be easier to identify their
>>>little bits.
>>
>>No, they're trying to ensure that whatever is left of their bits gets
>>routed to the right person...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Yup, it's not life saving it's identifying your next of kin so that they
> get a valid address for the for the bag of mush they've collected.
>

And they can declare you offically dead (important for the insurance).

--
Michael Wolf

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"chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message
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> My friends OTOH, almost always carry their cells with them and
> I can't even count how many times they've lost them.

Must be a woman thing, I guess... Probably has something to do with not
using your pockets for what they were intended...

> About a year (and probably a bit) ago, a friend of mine left her purse
with
> cell behind in one of our favorite watering holes. Within 24 hours, a bad
> guy had presented her cell to get it reassigned to him. The bad guy was
not
> arrested nor suffered any penalty for his attempt at bad behavior. The
cell
> company just took the phone from him and advised my pal that it had been
> recovered.

Back when I was in the New Orleans area, I was driving down one of the
streets near my home and a car pulled out from a side street... Something
slid off the top of the car and landed in the center left-turn lane... As I
was driving past it, I saw that it was a cell phone... I did a U-turn, came
back and picked it up before anyone had run over it... By the time I got it,
the original car had disappeared... I scanned through the entries a bit and
picked one of them that looked likely, called the person... His caller ID
showed who was calling and I explained what had happened... Turns out she
was there right now... It was only a couple of blocks away from where I was
at, so I drove over there and gave her phone back to her... She said that
she new that she lost it, but had no idea where... Apparently she had set it
on top of her car when she was getting in and forgot about it... Like I said
previously, it must be a woman thing... If she had had some type of passcode
on the phone, I wouldn't have been able to use this method of returning
it... Maybe she would have been smart enough to call her cell phone from
another phone and if the phone didn't prohibit it, I could have answered it
with the same basic end result...

Ya' see, there are some times when you might lose your phone and the person
who finds it is not interested in identity theft or even keeping the
phone...

Grumman-581 wrote:

>
> Back when I was in the New Orleans area, I was driving down one of the
> streets near my home and a car pulled out from a side street... Something
> slid off the top of the car and landed in the center left-turn lane... As I
> was driving past it, I saw that it was a cell phone... I did a U-turn, came
> back and picked it up before anyone had run over it... By the time I got it,
> the original car had disappeared... I scanned through the entries a bit and
> picked one of them that looked likely, called the person... His caller ID
> showed who was calling and I explained what had happened... Turns out she
> was there right now... It was only a couple of blocks away from where I was
> at, so I drove over there and gave her phone back to her... She said that
> she new that she lost it, but had no idea where... Apparently she had set it
> on top of her car when she was getting in and forgot about it... Like I said
> previously, it must be a woman thing... If she had had some type of passcode
> on the phone, I wouldn't have been able to use this method of returning
> it... Maybe she would have been smart enough to call her cell phone from
> another phone and if the phone didn't prohibit it, I could have answered it
> with the same basic end result...
>
> Ya' see, there are some times when you might lose your phone and the person
> who finds it is not interested in identity theft or even keeping the
> phone...
>
>

I don't know if this is universal or just particular to this area, but I
have taken cell phones to a cell phone company and they were ultimately
able to tell me who it belonged to or assist me in getting it back to
them whether the service was with that company or not.


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In article <ecpGe.53890$rb6.44943@lakeread07>, nitespark@cox.net says...
> I don't know if this is universal or just particular to this area, but I
> have taken cell phones to a cell phone company and they were ultimately
> able to tell me who it belonged to or assist me in getting it back to
> them whether the service was with that company or not.

I found a cell phone once outside of where I work, and in scrolling
through the contact list, saw the name and cell phone number of a
coworker. I called him, and immediately identified the owner with the
name that came up on his caller ID.