Put a "Home" entry in your phone book

The Ghost of General Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2007 23:48:23 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Brian
> Gordon) wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>>>
>>>> I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
>>>> too.
>>> Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
>>> guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
>>> has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)
>>>
>> Worse, 100% of the EMTs and Paramedics I talked to said they would be fired
>> on the spot if they were found messing with a patient's cellphone directory.
>> Invasion of privacy and all that ...
>
> In my experiences, it's not medical personnel who try to determine the
> identity of the patient. They let law enforcement do it.
>


Speaking of law enforcement, allowing a street bugging stranger to have
unfettered access to your address book seems like a really spiffy idea.
With a few reverse lookups on the net, they'll have telephone numbers,
addresses, names, who really knows what else. No sir, keep your rat
***** paws off my phone unless you want to lose really important
appendages. My phone stays locked for all the right reasons. Law
enforcement knows what to do and how to do it.

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SMS wrote:
> Unfortunately the owner did not have any entry in the phone book for
> "home," "wife," "ICE" (in case of emergency), etc.

As SMS pointed out in a following post, putting a sticker on your phone is
effective.

I have my office phone number on a sticker covered with clear tape that
lasts about six months before I starts to peel off. Trimming the squared
off edges of the tape helps.

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On May 5, 12:43 pm, Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>
> > I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
> > too.
>
> Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
> guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
> has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)
>
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Our local and state (Florida) are trained to look for the ICE on
people's cell if the person is unable to ask for help or give any
contact info.

On May 5, 2:19 pm, Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
> SMS wrote:
> > Yesterday I was driving down a street near my house and I saw a cell
> > phone in front of me at an intersection I had just stopped at. I jumped
> > out and retrieved it.
>
> > Unfortunately the owner did not have any entry in the phone book for
> > "home," "wife," "ICE" (in case of emergency), etc.
>
> > I called someone in his phonebook and explained the situation and this
> > person was able to contact the owner. The owner called me, and arranged
> > to pick up the phone later that evening. Fortunately (or stupidly) I
> > gave the owner my address. Because it was a T-Mobile phone, and I have
> > no T-Mobile coverage inside my house (1 bar outside), he couldn't call
> > me once I returned home. I had told him to call me on his phone before
> > he came, but he just showed up because he couldn't call.
>
> > Anyway, I think it's a good idea to have an obvious entry in your phone
> > book that enables someone that finds your phone to contact you or
> > someone else that you trust. Make it the first entry when your phone
> > book is opened, by putting a 1 (or other character that makes it be
> > first) as the first character.
>
> If anyone ever finds my phone laying in the street, I don't want it
> back. There's a very good reason why I tossed it out the window.
>
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> jer
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LOL! I can relate!

On May 5, 7:48 pm, [email protected] (Brian Gordon) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>
> >> I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
> >> too.
>
> >Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
> >guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
> >has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)
>
> Worse, 100% of the EMTs and Paramedics I talked to said they would be fired
> on the spot if they were found messing with a patient's cellphone directory.
> Invasion of privacy and all that ...
>
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What state are you in?

On May 6, 6:20 am, "William Michael Greene" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I usually wont get into threads that offer no value. Threads that a few
> people entertain themselves by writing useless info that could not be
> farther from the truth. The thought that trying to reach someone's loved
> ones after an accident by using their cell phone would be considered
> invasion of privacy borders on being ridiculous. Who would object? Oh wait,
> I may be dying but don't try and reach someone that might need to know,
> Ridiculous..
> When I have been confronted by info that may be questionable I usually seek
> the truth. If you are open to some feedback, do the same. Then go ahead and
> make an "ICE" entry into you cell phone. Who knows, it might come in handy
> one day. What could be the worse thing to happen. You could use up one of
> the 100's of entries available, so what?
>
> http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/icephone.asp
>
> "Brian Gordon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...
>
>
>
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>
> >>> I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
> >>> too.
>
> >>Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
> >>guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
> >>has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)
>
> > Worse, 100% of the EMTs and Paramedics I talked to said they would be
> > fired
> > on the spot if they were found messing with a patient's cellphone
> > directory.
> > Invasion of privacy and all that ...
>
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William,

Thank you!

In God's Grace,
Ric

William Michael Greene wrote:
> I usually wont get into threads that offer no value. Threads that a few
> people entertain themselves by writing useless info that could not be
> farther from the truth.

If it weren't for people like you, I'd never know what to believe.
Thank you, Your Majesty, for your guidance.

--
Postulate a God who's so smart He designed things we won't discover for the
next ten years, but who's so incredibly stupid He couldn't think up the
theory of evolution. Duhhhhhhhh. "Damn, Darwin, what a great idea!"

On Sun, 06 May 2007 08:48:45 -0500, Jer <[email protected]> wrote:


>
>
>Speaking of law enforcement, allowing a street bugging stranger to have
>unfettered access to your address book seems like a really spiffy idea.
> With a few reverse lookups on the net, they'll have telephone numbers,
>addresses, names, who really knows what else. No sir, keep your rat
>***** paws off my phone unless you want to lose really important
>appendages. My phone stays locked for all the right reasons. Law
>enforcement knows what to do and how to do it.

So what do you do about your wallet which has your driver's license
with home address on it? Not to mention your credit cards and all
that. What about your wife and her pocket book which has all the same
info?

If you are mugged the bad guys get everything and it really doesn't
matter if your phone is locked or not. On the other hand if you lose
your phone I think the odds are pretty good that a good guy will find
it.

Harry wrote:
> On Sun, 06 May 2007 08:48:45 -0500, Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Speaking of law enforcement, allowing a street bugging stranger to have
>> unfettered access to your address book seems like a really spiffy idea.
>> With a few reverse lookups on the net, they'll have telephone numbers,
>> addresses, names, who really knows what else. No sir, keep your rat
>> ***** paws off my phone unless you want to lose really important
>> appendages. My phone stays locked for all the right reasons. Law
>> enforcement knows what to do and how to do it.
>
> So what do you do about your wallet which has your driver's license
> with home address on it? Not to mention your credit cards and all
> that. What about your wife and her pocket book which has all the same
> info?
>
> If you are mugged the bad guys get everything and it really doesn't
> matter if your phone is locked or not. On the other hand if you lose
> your phone I think the odds are pretty good that a good guy will find
> it.
>


The error you're making is assuming I'm a typical person... I'm not. I
have no need for a wallet, nor most stuff one would find in one.
Driver's license? I have one but don't walk around with it. Credit
cards? Don't need any, don't have any. Pictures? I already know what
the family looks like. I carry some cash folded in a pocket and use it
for anything I want. Cell phone? On the odd occasion I'd actually have
one, it goes in the other pocket and is locked up. The gun is in a
waist holster under a shirt or in a boot. I only carry important stuff
with me, and I don't lose it. YMMV.

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jer
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On Sun, 06 May 2007 17:25:17 -0500, Jer <[email protected]> wrote:

SNIP

>
>The error you're making is assuming I'm a typical person... I'm not. I
>have no need for a wallet, nor most stuff one would find in one.
>Driver's license? I have one but don't walk around with it. Credit
>cards? Don't need any, don't have any. Pictures? I already know what
>the family looks like. I carry some cash folded in a pocket and use it
>for anything I want. Cell phone? On the odd occasion I'd actually have
>one, it goes in the other pocket and is locked up. The gun is in a
>waist holster under a shirt or in a boot. I only carry important stuff
>with me, and I don't lose it. YMMV.

Please tell me you don't live anywhere near me. LOL

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>
>> I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
>> too.
>
> Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
> guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
> has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)

Yeah, ICE is actually not the entry you want if you're trying to get a
lost phone back, as most of the populace doesn't know what it means.

An "If Found" is probably the most obvious entry, or if you keep your
phone locked, put a label on it. Many people want to do the right thing
and return property that they find, but they won't spend a lot of time
trying to figure out how to find the owner.

Jer wrote:

> If anyone ever finds my phone laying in the street, I don't want it
> back. There's a very good reason why I tossed it out the window.

Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw that it was a T-Mobile phone,
especially because the place I found, about two blocks from my house, it
an area with no T-Mobile coverage. It was like "yeah, that subscriber
just lost his cool and threw the phone into the street because he had no
coverage."

On May 6, 5:21 pm, [email protected] (Brian Gordon) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>
>
>
>
>
> Ric <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On May 5, 7:48 pm, [email protected] (Brian Gordon) wrote:
> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>
> >> >> I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
> >> >> too.
>
> >> >Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
> >> >guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
> >> >has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)
>
> >> Worse, 100% of the EMTs and Paramedics I talked to said they would be fired
> >> on the spot if they were found messing with a patient's cellphone directory.
> >> Invasion of privacy and all that ...
>
> >What state are you in?
>
> I asked the questions in CA and AZ. I don't know any emergency tyoes here in
> SC, yet.
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Get in touch with your local emergency department (Fire Department,
Police Department, etc...) and ask them if they have any
recommendations about an "ICE" directory or some sort for your
personal cell phone.

Here in Florida it's now so well known I have even ICEed my work cell
phone.

In God's Grace,
Ric

On May 7, 12:09 am, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Todd Allcock wrote:
> > At 05 May 2007 03:09:59 -0700 Ric wrote:
>
> >> I explained what the ICE entry is in my phone and set one up in hers
> >> too.
>
> > Great! Hopefully you'll be able to explain what an ICE entry is to the
> > guy that finds you in an emergency, because I suspect 80% of the populace
> > has no idea what "ICE" means! ;-)
>
> Yeah, ICE is actually not the entry you want if you're trying to get a
> lost phone back, as most of the populace doesn't know what it means.
>
> An "If Found" is probably the most obvious entry, or if you keep your
> phone locked, put a label on it. Many people want to do the right thing
> and return property that they find, but they won't spend a lot of time
> trying to figure out how to find the owner.

What's funny is that when you power up my phone I entered the greeting
text to say:

This Phone Was Stolen From:
Ric (Last name)
(Address)
(home phone number)

I think that get the point across in a funny way. ;-)

In God's Grace,
Ric

"Ric" wrote:
>
> What's funny is that when you power up my phone I entered the greeting
> text to say:
>
> This Phone Was Stolen From:
> Ric (Last name)
> (Address)
> (home phone number)
>
> I think that get the point across in a funny way. ;-)

Yep, if I found your phone and that's the message that came up I'd laugh
hysterically as I tossed it in the trash.

I hope you get the point in a funny way.


--
Mike