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#1 ·
>
> 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.
>
> For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
> Pass it on!


Please look up your local ambulance service and forward this to them too.

Lee D
 
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#2 ·
On or around Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:29:34 +0100, "Lee_D"
<newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> enlightened us thusly:

>>
>> 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".


yebbut, what if you have an Ice-supplier, or a car radio specialist?

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Boswell's "Johnson".
 
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#3 ·
In message <ejg7d1hcifthkvbco5lnb5ub175r47sge1@4ax.com>
Austin Shackles <austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:

> On or around Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:29:34 +0100, "Lee_D"
> <newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >>
> >> 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".

>
> yebbut, what if you have an Ice-supplier, or a car radio specialist?
>


I can't help thinking the boring old "Emergency" might be better than
yet another possibly missleading trendy acronym. To me ICE will always
be In-Circuit Emulator....

Richard
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#4 ·
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
<beamendsltd@btconnect.com> wrote:

>In message <ejg7d1hcifthkvbco5lnb5ub175r47sge1@4ax.com>
> Austin Shackles <austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>
>> On or around Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:29:34 +0100, "Lee_D"
>> <newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>> >>
>> >> 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".

>>
>> yebbut, what if you have an Ice-supplier, or a car radio specialist?
>>

>
>I can't help thinking the boring old "Emergency" might be better than
>yet another possibly missleading trendy acronym. To me ICE will always
>be In-Circuit Emulator....
>
>Richard


the first number in my phone labeled "!home", is fairly obviously the
one to call in such circumstances.


Regards.
Mark.
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#5 ·
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd wrote:

> I can't help thinking the boring old "Emergency" might be better
> than yet another possibly missleading trendy acronym. To me ICE will
> always be In-Circuit Emulator....


I'm with Austin "In Car Entertainment". There are other problems as
well, take this scenario. You lose or have your phone stolen. New
"owner" looks for your ICE details, makes a call, gets your NOK out of
the house whilst they have a rummage. How do they get your address
from just a number and name, plenty of legit places on the 'net,
always assuming that your phone doesn't also store a full address or
even your NOK tell them to confirm their identy before the "bad news"
is passed.

Apart from that security aspect just a hoax call from a "friend"
wouldn't be nice.

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#7 ·
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:29:34 +0100, "Lee_D"
<newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> wrote:

>Please look up your local ambulance service and forward this to them too.


I've always thought that having 'home' or either 'mum' or 'dad' in my
phone would be sufficient, and hoped that anybody who was trying to
use my phone to contact someone in an emergency would look there
first.

Last time i found a mobile phone, we rang 'dad' to reunite it with its
owner.
 
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#8 ·
"Tom Woods" <tomarse_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:rk08d1lu7vvnonhsjd6s81o2958ojesj96@4ax.com...

> Last time i found a mobile phone, we rang 'dad' to reunite it with its
> owner.
>


But how does your Dad know?... I know Dads are clever but I think your
exagerating now......


;0)

Lee D
 
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#9 ·
Re: Emergency contacts

What are they too thick to read the printed card in my wallet ?


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"Lee_D" <newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> wrote in message
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>
> Please look up your local ambulance service and forward this to them too.
>
> Lee D
>
>
 
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#10 ·
In article <t7m7d1dc9pqochliu6fvt75tk6hkrauu9m@4ax.com>, MVP
<mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> writes
>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
><beamendsltd@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>>In message <ejg7d1hcifthkvbco5lnb5ub175r47sge1@4ax.com>
>> Austin Shackles <austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>>
>>I can't help thinking the boring old "Emergency" might be better than
>>yet another possibly missleading trendy acronym. To me ICE will always
>>be In-Circuit Emulator....
>>
>>Richard

>
>the first number in my phone labeled "!home", is fairly obviously the
>one to call in such circumstances.
>
>



If you live alone (which increasing numbers of us do), then "home" might
not be very successful.


Adrian
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#11 ·
On 2005-07-12, Mother <"@ {m} @"@101fc.net> wrote:

> More important, IMO, is to encourage people to have some common sense
> and return to the 'old system' of carrying some form of ID which also
> gives NOK and any medical information; (allergies, contra-indications
> etc.), which will be of immediate help.


Like an organ donor card, or a MedicAid necklace.

Many phones won't accept the same number being entered more than once
in the database. There is a fudge for this which is to add an extra
'0' to one of the entries, which will be ignored by the network.

> Still, the idea won't 'hurt', apart obviously from Vodafone trying to


I think there may also be privacy implications which may prevent
emergency services staff from searching through individuals mobile
phone databases. I guess that the Ambulance service promoting the
idea has checked the legal implications, but even so.

-- Pete
 
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#12 ·
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:01:18 +0100, Adrian Simpson
<news@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <t7m7d1dc9pqochliu6fvt75tk6hkrauu9m@4ax.com>, MVP
><mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> writes
>>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
>><beamendsltd@btconnect.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In message <ejg7d1hcifthkvbco5lnb5ub175r47sge1@4ax.com>
>>> Austin Shackles <austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>I can't help thinking the boring old "Emergency" might be better than
>>>yet another possibly missleading trendy acronym. To me ICE will always
>>>be In-Circuit Emulator....
>>>
>>>Richard

>>
>>the first number in my phone labeled "!home", is fairly obviously the
>>one to call in such circumstances.
>>
>>

>
>
>If you live alone (which increasing numbers of us do), then "home" might
>not be very successful.
>
>
>Adrian


If I lived alone why the feck would I have my home number in my phone?
do you think I'd call it often? lol


Regards.
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#13 ·
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:16:22 +0100, Mother <"@ {m} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>I'm actually thinking seriously about dumping my home landline.


Trouble with this is it is an imposition to be asked to phone a
cellphone and the home phone is often linked with access to an isp via
adsl or dial up.

AJH
 
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#14 ·
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:16:22 +0100, Mother wrote:

> I'm actually thinking seriously about dumping my home landline.


I can see why people would want to do that but do think about all the
implications.

A land line will work when the power goes off. Only some cell sites
have battery back up those that do only have a few hours uptime. All
telephone exchanges have *big* batteries and even quite small ones
have generators as well. When the storm that flooded Carlisle came
through of the 4 networks only 1 managed a short outage of a few hours
(just the duration of the power outage at the transmitter) O2 was off
for >48hrs, Voda for about 36... As storms go this one wasn't
particulary nasty, it just rained *a lot*. Caught out quite a few
locals who have mobiles only.

You don't need to have a means of recharging batteries at your end,
not easy without mains power. Remember that your phones multiday
standby time falls dramatically if you actual use it to make a call
and when are you likely to want make a call... Provision can be made
for alternative power sources, if it is thought about.

Mobile systems have a habit of getting overloaded rather quickly when
even small amounts of shit start flying about. Overload didn't happen
here but it did in Carlisle.

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#15 ·
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:16:22 +0100, Mother <"@ {m} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:37:12 +0100, MVP <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net>
>wrote:
>
>>>If you live alone (which increasing numbers of us do), then "home" might
>>>not be very successful.

>>
>>If I lived alone why the feck would I have my home number in my phone?

>
>You could always call yourself to see if you were in...


Not all of us can remember our home phone number too! so putting it in
the mobile is useful

>I'm actually thinking seriously about dumping my home landline.


I only have one to use for broadband. Unfortunately you still have to
pay for the voice calls even if you dont want it.
My home phone is usually unplugged/on silent or ignored.
 
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#16 ·
In article <llr9d1p0pn9ib6gc999dgj8u0a3fdho8oi@4ax.com>, MVP
<mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> writes
>
>If I lived alone why the feck would I have my home number in my phone?
>do you think I'd call it often? lol
>
>



Useful when friends/relatives are staying and you want to let them know
you are on your way back ("get the kettle on"), also handy for testing
the phone line when you've been adding in extensions etc.


Adrian
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#17 ·
so Adrian Simpson was, like...
> In article <llr9d1p0pn9ib6gc999dgj8u0a3fdho8oi@4ax.com>, MVP
> <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> writes
>>
>> If I lived alone why the feck would I have my home number in my
>> phone? do you think I'd call it often? lol
>>
>>

>
>
> Useful when friends/relatives are staying and you want to let them
> know you are on your way back ("get the kettle on"), also handy for
> testing the phone line when you've been adding in extensions etc.
>
>
> Adrian


I suppose you could use the reverse of the "lost mobile" trick. If you were
on your way home after a night on the pop and couldn't find your house, you
could phone your home number and listen for which house started ringing.

Just a thort.

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#18 ·
On or around Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:19:41 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<newsboy@nowhere.com> enlightened us thusly:

>so Adrian Simpson was, like...
>> In article <llr9d1p0pn9ib6gc999dgj8u0a3fdho8oi@4ax.com>, MVP
>> <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> writes
>>>
>>> If I lived alone why the feck would I have my home number in my
>>> phone? do you think I'd call it often? lol
>>>
>>>

>>
>>
>> Useful when friends/relatives are staying and you want to let them
>> know you are on your way back ("get the kettle on"), also handy for
>> testing the phone line when you've been adding in extensions etc.
>>
>>
>> Adrian

>
>I suppose you could use the reverse of the "lost mobile" trick. If you were
>on your way home after a night on the pop and couldn't find your house, you
>could phone your home number and listen for which house started ringing.
>
>Just a thort.


and of course it's handy for when you've put the mobile down somewhere and
can't find it.

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Boswell's "Johnson".
 
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