Posted on 07/23/2018 12:38:00 PM PDT by GOP Congress
I just noticed something on my Android Phone. When I press "Contacts", then the phone number under "Me" (my own phone number), I get the My Info page. In the past, I haven't given this much inspection, but this morning I happened to scroll to the bottom of the page. At the bottom, there is a siren icon with the following:
WHAT. THE. HELL!!!!
In my book, this is corporate malfeasance. They are encouraging their customers to commit a serious felony! Everyone, check your phones. I have duckduckgo'd and even googled "Android ICE warning" and got nuttin'! This should be broadcast far and wide.
BOL! Thanks for the compliment. I’m closer to being 80 than 79!
On the other hand, if the mugger DOES steal your phone and is later shotgunned to death in the face by his drug supplier, that could lead to a whole ‘nother comedy of errors.
“Mrs. Trigintaquinque, this is Sergeant Donutgobbler of the DDPD. I regret to inform you that your husband, Par, was shot to death earlier this evening while attempting to buy fourteen keys of cocaine and a teenaged hooker...”
Hey, you made a call/post to warn your fellow freepers.
No crime.
We/I didn’t know what ICE was until a younger relative told us to enter the data.
To GOP Congress: Duh!
Now here's why it's a good thing. I play senior softball and about 2 1/2 weeks ago an 80 year old player in our group died. He was supposed to meet a friend for breakfast at a McDonald's and when he didn't show up, the friend contacted the Troy police department. The police broke into the house and found Homer deader than a door nail on the floor.
Homer was an atheist, a vehement hater of Christianity and even tried to argue with me that Communism was the perfect form of government. So excuse me if I show no remorse at his passing. With that being said.....
Homer laid in the Oakland County morgue for almost two weeks, freezing his ass off, before any family members were located. The only relatives he had were a niece who was fortunate to inherit his home and wealth. There was no emergency contact in his house and it was only due to the curiosity of our softball league president who looked at the player waiver which requires the player to list an emergency contact in the event of injury and found out that Homer listed a niece as his emergency contact.
That contact information was relayed to the Troy Police Department and the rest is history...........
Homer was a cheap ass bastard his entire life and the fellow senior softball players who attended the luncheon following his death took advantaged of the open bar and the restaurant menu.......Finally being paid for by Homer...........
That is one gay ass phone cone...
Wasn’t my phone. :-)
I joked that I didn’t know that your wife was an illegal alien...bad joke. I apologize. The poster was wound up a little tight and wouldn’t have appreciated the humor.
Well, there is that.
By the way, thanks for reminding me. I recently got a new phone and never added the ICE info..
And as far as the governmental agency with the same acronym - they already have all your info and there’s nothing you can do about it.
;-)
Not on my Samsung Galaxy. Maybe it depends on your carrier.
In Case of Emergency (ICE) is a program that enables first responders, such as paramedics, firefighters, and police officers, as well as hospital personnel, to contact the next of kin of the owner of a mobile phone to obtain important medical or support information (the phone must be unlocked and working)
Does that alleviate your paranoia?
“It’s not on mine.”
I know it’s on mine because I’ve stumbled across it a couple times. Only problem is that I didn’t know how I got there. So I don’t have much confidence that cops will find it. It’s a BlackBerry, so a little wonky.
Question is, would she believe it? Would you take some sort of glee in having such a call made, and then showing up at home, entirley undrugg’d, unwhore’d, and free of facial pelletry?
*wincing*
I shouldn’t be laughing, but I am.
That’s horrible.
It might be separate.
If you go into the apps view, that triple row of squares low center of screen, you might have an app that says “ICE” with a red square.
Some phones have it outside of the contact list.
In that instance it has more information to it, like home address and sometimes blood type. (Not always)
Well, you should be hanging out at the picnic table after our games these past two weeks........Homer gets absolutely no respect.....
But you know what? All these guys are old retires who have lost wives, maybe sons and daughters and treat every individual in our group with the respect they deserve when they die.
We lost 89 year old Charley about a month ago and nobody had a bad thing to say about him. Then along came Homer, and the rest is history.
When I eventually die, these old farts are going to bad mouth me just like they do today and I'm going to be looking down from heaven (I hope) and laughing........
After all, the Russians have got ice and stuff in Russia, much of the time.
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