They're watching you

[bubba]

It's most likely part of the enhanced 911 system that cell carriers are mandated to provide so a cell call to 911 can be tracked.

[TheSp8]

['course, that assumes I'm willing to admit to myself that I'm lost, which hasn't happened yet. [/QUOTE]


Sounds like you follow the Daniel Boone method. He said, I've never been lost, but I was confused for three days once. That's the excuse I use anyway.

We saw something like this on one of the police shows this weekend and my wife asked if that really worked. I said, I don't know but I wouldn't doubt it. Even something on AFN can be right every once in a while. Making me distrust technology and my government even more. Now, where's my flintlock and scalping knife?

YMOS,
Tony

[auld argonian]

My usual response to my wife when she suggests that I'm lost is:

"Klingons are never 'lost'...we are only temporarily delayed from reaching our objective owing to erroneous directions given by members of inferior alien races!"

...however, why did I drop $ on a GPS unit when I could have just waited and used my phone?

Best

AA

[davedove]

My usual response to my wife when she suggests that I'm lost is:

"Klingons are never 'lost'...we are only temporarily delayed from reaching our objective owing to erroneous directions given by members of inferior alien races!"

...however, why did I drop $ on a GPS unit when I could have just waited and used my phone?

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AA

I don't get lost either. However, sometimes the maps I have used had errors.

[Big Dave]

I don't get lost either.

Nor do I. When my wife accuses me of being lost (which seems to happen every car ride), I like to tell her that "I'm taking the scenic route".

[fhpdo]

As a dispatcher for the Highway Patrol I have seen this system in use. It can be used in good ways as well as bad. I have seen it used to track down a wanted subject in a child abduction and to find a motorist who was trying to commit suicide. In both cases we went through the cell company and got a pretty location on the last place the phone was turned on. We have also tracked people by finding out which tower was the last one their signal bounced off of.
Here's the link http://www.fhp.state.fl.us/PhotoGallery/PG093005.htm
John

[UmAnOnion]

they are using this technology right now in a case of a coolleg coed who was raped & murdered & her body dumped along the highways here inthe NYC area. they have used info from the main suspects cell phone - WHICH WAS MOT IN USE AT THE TIME - in pinning him to the general area at around the time the body was dumped.

CLICK HERE for the full story

its kinda scaqry how much you are tracked & watched these days... but if you arent doing anything wrong...

[Yaish]

There was a recent case out here in Riverside County, California where a car was stolen with a baby inside of it.
While the mother was putting the baby in the car seat, one of the older children ran back inside the house. The mother ran back in after the child, and a guy jumped in the car and drove away.

The ladies cellphone was inside the car, and police tried to get access to the GPS data to track the vehicle and recover the infant. The cellphone company refused to release the data without a warrant.

Fortunately the car and baby were found just a few miles away. Apparently when the thief noticed he had a passenger, he panicked and ditched the car. He was subsequently apprehended however. A friend of mine is actually prosecuting the case.

[ByDand]

On the radio the other day I heard the reporter touting the fact that parents could now check on the location of their children via cell phones. I don't mean calling them up and asking where they are, but really checking their location to make sure they are where they said they would be! If this is used correctly, no problem! If not.....

[Jerry]

Getting lost brings to mind two incidents. The first was many years ago when I first started hunting with the group I hunt with. I was new and one of the older members was given me the assignment to direct me to a hunting area. Not knowing the area, I took a compass. and intended to follow the directions I was given. Park at "this place and proceed straight southeast and you will come to the river in about 500 yards", then turn left along the river bank and you'll come to the stand. Well, we started southeast all right, but my so called guide kept veering more and more to the south, until we were headed actually back towards the southwest, and away from the river.I kept telling him we were off course, to which he replied that I needed a better compass. Finally, we went down a hill and emerged into a swamp. He looked and said Darn, they moved the river.

The second was last year on my own property. It was a cloudy overcast day and I was trying to make my way through a thick growth of new pines. Now I wasn't lost in the since that I couldn't eventually find my way out in some direction, but I did get a mite turned around. I thought I was headed for my truck, but instead I managed to come out to a field just below an old farm house, exactly in the wrong direction by several hundred yards. Since then, I always carry a compass or handheld GPS, even in areas I know.