From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
Subject: Enhanced 911 and cellular phones (was re: Morton Grove...)
Followup-To: alt.dcom.telecom
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Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 03:53:54 GMT

In article <robinson.717826264@knuth> robinson@knuth.mtsu.edu (David Robinson) writes:
)In <1992Sep28.151539.17757@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat) writes:
)
)
)>In <1992Sep25.195452.21326@cbfsb.cb.att.com> Mr. X states:
)>|>The $64 question is
)>|>	How can women in Morton Grove protect themselves?
)
)>|	You IDIOT, don't you know ANYTHING?!  They call 911, of course.
)>|	The police will be there in a jiffy to thwart the evil criminal.
)>|	Sheesh, some people...
)
)subtle sarcasm.... however, some folks depend totally on smiley faces
)rather than reading between the lines..... :-/ << for the humor
)impaired.
)
)>This statement is ALMOST 100% on. The local news media starting pushing
)>CELLULAR TELEPHONES for women after this 'fake policemen' stuff started
)>up. I say almost because the emergency number for cellular phones in
)>this area is "*"-something. Even the local business magazine Crains
)>Chicago Business mentioned this as helping cellular telephone business;
)>of course, no mention was made of exactly what the police were going
)>to do for you if you did reach them...
)
)>|	-Andy V.
)
)Maybe I'm spoiled by our local E911 service where our local emergency
)services can determine the location of the calling emergency by the
)incoming phone number.... but I fail to see how a cellular phone can
)benefit from E911.  Maybe I'm being obtuse.  Even omitting the dubious
)benefits of E911, I fail to visualize a potential victim who has just
)been throttled from behind snatching her cellular phone from her purse
)while the attack is underway, dialing 911, gasping "I'm in the middle of
)the block between Elm and Maple... on the EAST side of the street...
)next to the abandoned electronics shop... whoops... he's dragged me 
)into the ally.... HELP! He's dragging me into an abandoned warehouse 
)SOUTH of the ally... NOW HE'S DRAGGING ME UPSTAIRS....  uh oh, now he's
)noticed that I'm talking on a cellular phone... now he's asking me who 
)I'm *talking* to on this cellular phone.... oh, no!  I think it's too 
)late...." 

I could see all the above happening, while the police, following the info
provided by E911, are trying to bust down the door at the unmanned cellular
distribution site (the physical location of the phone line the call is
orginating on).

)                                          vvv      
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)Once again, for the sarcasm impared  >>   :-)   <<      OK ?!? 
) 
)                                          ^^^
)although the reality would be anything but funny.
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