Accidental cell call causes SWAT team ruckus at middle school

• Meikeru wrote on 2011-01-05 22:26
  Quite a funny read.
  
  

  Here's a reminder that drivers shouldn't keep their phones bouncing around in their pants pocket: One suburban Chicago school employee inadvertently triggered the emergency deployment of a 30-member SWAT team after he accidentally pocket-dialed his wife. "Gangster-like" music was playing in the background, leading his wife to believe that the call indicated he was being held hostage, as a district superintendent later explained. So the emergency-response squad turned out in full force at the Winnetka middle school campus that houses the district offices where he works.
  
  "You know how when you sit on your phone when it's in your back pocket and it calls the last number that was dialed? His wife was the last number he'd dialed," Winnetka Police Chief Joseph De Lopez told the Chicago Tribune.
  
  Three news helicopters joined the scrum, until police eventually announced there had been a misunderstanding.
  
  Neither the paper nor the police named the employee at the center of the ruckus, who is reportedly pretty embarrassed. If he pocket-dials his wife from behind the wheel again, though, he'd be well advised to tune into an easy-listening station.

  
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110105/us_yblog_thelookout/pocket-dial-causes-swat-team-ruckus-at-middle-school
• Iyasenu wrote on 2011-01-05 22:47
  xD
  "Gangster-like".
  
  But yeargh, makes me like those phones that close shut. They're kinda old, but it's hard to pocket-dial with them.
  
  ... Sigh.
  
  I don't have a cell phone...
• Time wrote on 2011-01-05 22:48
  Those kids with there cell phones and gangster music.
• Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-01-05 22:49
  Awww its alright. I got mine only two years ago :P
• Athde wrote on 2011-01-05 22:55
  Gangster music... Really? Sounds like the wife is kinda paranoid no? I mean like unless the song was ABOUT kidnapping she kinda overreacted...
• Piero wrote on 2011-01-05 23:00
  Mine is like a Blackberry, but I never keep it in my back pcoket, I hate that.
• protoman206 wrote on 2011-01-05 23:02
  That's why there's a keypad lock feature. o.o;
• Skye wrote on 2011-01-05 23:43
  That's kind of strange that the wife would even think that the call meant he was kidnapped.
• Lolicon wrote on 2011-01-05 23:45
  My BlackBerry seems to always speed dial the O button when its in my pocket.
• MiniSoda wrote on 2011-01-05 23:47
  And this is why touch screen phones are better
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-01-06 00:35
  Oh but no one blames the music.
  
  Something like this and people would instantly blame violent or sexual video games. But not other forms of media. These things "just happen", and everyone goes on with their lives. As long as its not video game related...
• heretic304 wrote on 2011-01-06 06:18

  Quote from protoman206;277609:

  That's why there's a keypad lock feature. o.o;

  
  
  I used to have a phone that didn't flip closed or slide closed, and even WITH the keypad lock feature on, I ended up somehow dialing the police while I was at my friend's place, on multiple occasions. So yea <_< still happens. And this was in my FRONT pocket.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-01-06 06:19
  Front pocket. I somehow dial ONE friend all the time, even though I don't have them on quick dial.
  And he, for the fun of it, just turns his phone on mic and keeps it on to listen to me until I turn it off.
• Taycat wrote on 2011-01-06 09:18
  Maybe he should lock his cellphone?
• Cannibal wrote on 2011-01-06 09:32

  Quote from Cucurbita;278434:

  Front pocket. I somehow dial ONE friend all the time, even though I don't have them on quick dial.
  And he, for the fun of it, just turns his phone on mic and keeps it on to listen to me until I turn it off.

  
  That's kind of creepy.