Re: Potential Life Saving Procedures



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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I have never met a liberal street cop.
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