{"id":222,"date":"2004-12-26T11:12:45","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=222"},"modified":"2005-01-10T01:03:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T06:03:56","slug":"got-a-cell-phone-for-christmas-dont-be-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Got a cell phone for Christmas?  Don&#8217;t be stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew poeple were stupid sometimes, but not <em>this<\/em> bad.  It appears that as countless numbers of people get shiny new cell phones as Christmas presents, they decide to test it out&#8230; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2004\/12\/24\/MNGKGAGU9D1.DTL\">by calling 911<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Measuring her words as evenly as she can, Diane Chupinski, a 13-year veteran CHP dispatcher who now supervises other dispatchers in the Vallejo center, offers this: &#8220;I can say it is not clear to me why people think 911 needs to be tested. If you want to know if your phone works, call your friend and say, &#8216;Guess what I got for Christmas.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d be a little pissed off, too.  In fact, I really hope that dispatch centers gear up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/company\/publicsafety.asp\">E-911 Phase II<\/a> soon (like they already should have been), so that these little test calls transform from anonymous little hangups to actual traceable, locatable calls that they can put the smackdown on.  <\/p>\n<p>If your first call on your new cell phone is 911, the house had better be burning down or someone had better be dying.  If not, then I&#8217;d say you&#8217;re also a prime candidate to do other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/10\/29\/hln.wired.cell.etiquette\/\">stupid, rude things<\/a> with your cell phone and aren&#8217;t competent to keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are calling, of all things, 911 to test their shiny new cell phones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}