Text 17425, 67 rader
Skriven 2007-04-16 21:35:44 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 17424 av Robert G Lewis (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: DST error = 12 days in jail
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From: Rich Gauszka <gauszka@-nospam-hotmail.com>

Robert G Lewis wrote:
> "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4624055e$1@w3.nls.net...
>> Yet another DST  lawsuit brewing.
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/daylight_saving_error/
>> A Pennsylvania student was held in jail for 12 days after a bomb threat
>> recorded by a school hot line service was wrongly attributed to him, Fox
>> News reports.
>>
>
>>
>
> The school has acted to make sure it won't get any more blocked calls
>
> http://www.hempfieldarea.k12.pa.us/mainnews.asp?lngindex=18
>
> The Hempfield Area School District will no longer accept calls from phone
> numbers that have been blocked. If you have a blocked telephone number, you
> must remove this feature before placing the phone call to any of the school
> district buildings.
>
>

In this era of cheap disposable cell phones I doubt a restriction on blocked
calls will lessen the flow of crank calls. Heck even the vagrants in our area
have disposable phones

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/122906/loc_2006122924.shtml

OAK PARK - As a commercial garbage truck started to compact a load Thursday,
Oak Park police got a frantic cell phone call from a Detroit man trapped inside
the rubbish.

They spent about 10 minutes stopping and checking garbage trucks around the
city after the call came in around 2 p.m., police said, before finding the man
unharmed.

"He said, 'I fell asleep in a Dumpster and a trash truck has now picked up the
Dumpster and emptied the load in the back of the truck,' " said Oak Park Lt.
Mike Pousak.

"He said, 'I don't know where I'm at or what truck I'm in but I was in the area
of Coolidge and North End Street.' "

As the man was talking to a police dispatcher, he said the truck was starting
to compact its load.

"We didn't know what location he was at or what the name of the garbage truck
company was," Pousak said. "Then, as he was talking to our dispatcher, the
battery in his cell phone became dislodged and we lost contact with him."

By then Oak Park officers had already checked several commercial garbage trucks
with no luck.

Finally, an officer spotted a garbage truck in a parking lot near a business on
Coolidge just north of Eight Mile Road, Pousak said. "The truck driver was
there to pick up another load and begin compacting," he said. "An officer went
and pounded on the side of the truck and somebody pounded back. Thankfully, we
had found the right truck." The driver emptied the full load of garbage out in
the parking lot and Oak Park officers climbed through the garbage and found the
man, Pousak said.

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