I don't see a need for having 911 access with an inactive phone. Just yell for help. Whats wrong? No voice because you are being choked? To bad then. You should have stayed home that day. Oops. Now you know.
Tell that to a battered wife who is trying to get away from an abusive stalker husband. Most cities have programs to get inactive phones into the hands of these women so that their scumbag spouses can't track them down and do them harm.
As for the complaint, perhaps these municipalities should be investing some homeland security grants in tech that can trace these calls instead of spending it on dumb things, as they usually end up doing.
That article was pretty lame quoting 10k 'fraudulent' 911 calls from inactive phones in a 3 month period across Tennessee. So, how many 'fraudulent' calls were there from other sources in that time frame, as well as home many 911 calls in total? Bad reporting.
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PEZ @ Apr 30th 2008 6:52AM
I don't see a need for having 911 access with an inactive phone. Just yell for help. Whats wrong? No voice because you are being choked? To bad then. You should have stayed home that day. Oops. Now you know.
Kumar @ May 2nd 2008 2:30PM
Tell that to a battered wife who is trying to get away from an abusive stalker husband. Most cities have programs to get inactive phones into the hands of these women so that their scumbag spouses can't track them down and do them harm.
As for the complaint, perhaps these municipalities should be investing some homeland security grants in tech that can trace these calls instead of spending it on dumb things, as they usually end up doing.
That article was pretty lame quoting 10k 'fraudulent' 911 calls from inactive phones in a 3 month period across Tennessee. So, how many 'fraudulent' calls were there from other sources in that time frame, as well as home many 911 calls in total? Bad reporting.