http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/content/ice/default.asp




Following the disaster in London . . .


East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of
Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon
Weston.

The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address
book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be
contacted "In Case of Emergency".

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to
quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's
so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.

Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it won't
take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It really
could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

And this is relevant to car maintenance because........?

Normally means In Car entertainment.

-- 
*"I am " is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. * 

    Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
                  To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article <daunts$4mi$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, dave
F  writes

>http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/content/ice/default.asp
snip
>The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address
>book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be
>contacted "In Case of Emergency".
>
>In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to
>quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. 

snip
-good idea in principle, BUT...-don't most people use a password to lock
their phones?
-- 
Chris Holford

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "dave       F"
 saying something like:


>The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address
>book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be
>contacted "In Case of Emergency".


"Off Licence"

"Kebab Shop"
-- 

Dave
SE6a

SimonJ  wrote in message
news:dauufk$hif$2@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...

> And this is relevant to car maintenance because........?



if you have an accident during maintaining your car.

The message <$5vWMTALQw0CFwXl@brownswell.demon.co.uk>
from Chris Holford  contains these words:


> -good idea in principle, BUT...-don't most people use a password to lock
> their phones?


I don't - nor do many people I know. Phone stays in pocket or bag.

-- 
Skipweasel.
Ivor Cutler - "Never knowingly understood."

"dave F"  wrote in message 
news:davmun$dso$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...


>> And this is relevant to car maintenance because........?

> if you have an accident during maintaining your car.


OK, point taken. I'll forward on loads of those "you're crush will love you 
if you send this 4000 times" messages to here, y'know, incase a hot broad 
wanders by 'during maintaining' my car :-)

Ta,
G.

"dave F"  wrote in message
news:davmun$dso$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...


>> And this is relevant to car maintenance because........?

> if you have an accident during maintaining your car.


OK, point taken. I'll forward on loads of those "your crush will fall madly 
in love with you and fuck ya brains out
if you send this 4000 times" messages to here, y'know, incase a hot broad
wanders by 'during maintaining' my car :-)

Ta,
G.

In article <$5vWMTALQw0CFwXl@brownswell.demon.co.uk>,
   Chris Holford  wrote:

> -good idea in principle, BUT...-don't most people use a password to lock
> their phones?


I don't know anyone who does. And I'm one of those who rarely uses one -
despite having had one for 15 years.

-- 
*Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

    Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
                  To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message
news:4d8935085ddave@davenoise.co.uk...

> In article <$5vWMTALQw0CFwXl@brownswell.demon.co.uk>,
>    Chris Holford  wrote:
> > -good idea in principle, BUT...-don't most people use a password to lock
> > their phones?
>
> I don't know anyone who does. And I'm one of those who rarely uses one -
> despite having had one for 15 years.
>
> --
> *Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
>
>     Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
>                   To e-mail, change noise into sound.


everyone i know locks there fone, i would but i dont know how too.

dave       F (davef1xxx@btinternet.com) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying : 


> Following the disaster in London . . .


Ohgawdherewegoagain...


> The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone
> address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would
> want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".


Woo. So - because of a once-in-decades event that's killed a few people, 
everybody should have the inconvenience of their mobile not showing their 
other half's name when they ring, because they won't resolve if there's 
more than one entry for a number.

B'sides - if a bomb goes off in a crowded tube, how do they emergency 
services :-

1.    	Know which phone belongs to which person?
2.    	Get a phone working that's been in the pocket of that pile of body 
parts?
3.    	Get a signal on the tube?
4.    	Get a signal when the phone networks have been closed down?
5.    	Faced with a pile of mobile phones and a pile of screaming injured 
people, which do YOU think will be the paramedic's higher priority?

Bear in mind that everybody will have dropped their phone in the clamour to 
get out, so there will be ten or twenty times as many phones as bodies.

Now factor in the "twat-factor" of people thinking it's Really Really Funny 
to dial numbers at random and say "Hello? Yes, it's the ambulance service 
here - we think your husband's dead. We've just found this phone in the 
body of a victim. No, don't bother describing him, he doesn't look like 
that now..."

"Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote in 
message news:DaLAe.25535$O22.19876@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

>
> everyone i know locks there fone, i would but i dont know how too.


yes, locks the *keypad*, usually a matter of typing menu * to unlock it 
again. It's not the same thing as passwording.

"Mark Hewitt"  wrote in message
news:db0b3t$arg$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk...

>
> "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote in
> message news:DaLAe.25535$O22.19876@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> >
> > everyone i know locks there fone, i would but i dont know how too.
>
> yes, locks the *keypad*, usually a matter of typing menu * to unlock it
> again. It's not the same thing as passwording.
>
>
>


i mean lokced with password, not the one to stop accidental key presses.

"Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote in 
message news:iQTAe.26723$O22.11457@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

>
> "Mark Hewitt"  wrote in 
> message
> news:db0b3t$arg$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk...
>>
>> "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote 
>> in
>> message news:DaLAe.25535$O22.19876@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> >
>> > everyone i know locks there fone, i would but i dont know how too.
>>
>> yes, locks the *keypad*, usually a matter of typing menu * to unlock it
>> again. It's not the same thing as passwording.
>>
>>
>>
>
> i mean lokced with password, not the one to stop accidental key presses.


Don't know anybody who does that. Is phone crime a particular problem in 
your area?

In message <db8aoq$4ur$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk>, Mark Hewitt 
 writes


>> i mean lokced with password, not the one to stop accidental key presses.

>Don't know anybody who does that. Is phone crime a particular problem in
>your area?


My wife password-protects hers; she once had a phone nicked, and abusive 
phone calls made to the numbers in the memory.

-- 
Steve Walker

"Mark Hewitt"  wrote in message
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> "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote in
> message news:iQTAe.26723$O22.11457@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> >
> > "Mark Hewitt"  wrote in
> > message
> > news:db0b3t$arg$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk...
> >>
> >> "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote
> >> in
> >> message news:DaLAe.25535$O22.19876@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> >> >
> >> > everyone i know locks there fone, i would but i dont know how too.
> >>
> >> yes, locks the *keypad*, usually a matter of typing menu * to unlock it
> >> again. It's not the same thing as passwording.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > i mean lokced with password, not the one to stop accidental key presses.
>
> Don't know anybody who does that. Is phone crime a particular problem in
> your area?
>
>


not more than usual

>

Mark Hewitt  wrote on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:38:50 +0100:

> 
> "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote in 
> message news:iQTAe.26723$O22.11457@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>
>> "Mark Hewitt"  wrote in 
>> message
>> news:db0b3t$arg$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk...
>>>
>>> "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"  wrote 
>>> in
>>> message news:DaLAe.25535$O22.19876@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>> >
>>> > everyone i know locks there fone, i would but i dont know how too.
>>>
>>> yes, locks the *keypad*, usually a matter of typing menu * to unlock it
>>> again. It's not the same thing as passwording.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> i mean lokced with password, not the one to stop accidental key presses.
> 
> Don't know anybody who does that. Is phone crime a particular problem in 
> your area?


Assuming you don't turn your phone _off_ very often (rather than silent),
it isn't much hastle.  In the event that your phone is stolen, or
(more likely) you lose it somewhere, it prevents anyone from using
your credit/account.  It does also stop people phoning you to say they
found your phone (or in the context of this thread, the body attached
to the phone).

-- 
David Taylor

The message <db9jh1$1ia3$2@outcold.yadt.co.uk>
from "David Taylor"  contains these words:


> It does also stop people phoning you to say they
> found your phone (or in the context of this thread, the body attached
> to the phone).


I've set mine so that the power-up message contains my landline number
and a request to phone it.

-- 
Skipweasel.
Ivor Cutler - "Never knowingly understood."

Guy King  wrote on Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:11:22 +0100:

> The message <db9jh1$1ia3$2@outcold.yadt.co.uk>
> from "David Taylor"  contains these words:
> 
>> It does also stop people phoning you to say they
>> found your phone (or in the context of this thread, the body attached
>> to the phone).
> 
> I've set mine so that the power-up message contains my landline number
> and a request to phone it.


Hmm, good idea, but my phone only displays the "welcome message" once
the pin has been entered.  Kinda pointless really.

-- 
David Taylor