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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | ...can be very slick, but so can this suggestion. There's been a crazy email going around that really is not a bad idea. Since most of you folk carry cell phones, the suggestion is to have an entry called ICE - In Case of Emergency. Now, I don't know if this really has caught on, or whether emergency personnel would look to this if you were not able to respond and they needed to contact your emergency person, but I have that entry just in case.
On that note though, I did leave my cell phone at the dentist office the other day. The receptionist found my phone and looked for the last dialed number and called it. It was my wife's number, who was with me at that time.
However, when the phone rang, my wife saw that it was my number, I'm sitting beside her. She answers her phone and there's a pretty voice asking if she knew me... well, the look was priceless, both when she didn't know who it was and then when she figured it out.... whew! | |
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Iron Butt
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Rockford, IL | Chris- I've had ICE numbers in my phone for several years now. Luckily they have never had to used. However a buddy we were riding with two years ago went hot into a nasty curve and ditched his Concours pretty badly. After we started the initial medical things such as assessing his injuries and condition and calling 911 and everything. I unclipped his phone and looked for ICE info...and low & behold he had an ICE number...I was suprised. Well I called it and it was his wife, I calmly informed her of the situation, her husbands condition and our location and told her I would contact her as soon as I knew any more info like the hospital name and such. The benefit here was she was able to start heading our direction, which was about an hour away. Called her back ten minutes later and informed her of what the EMT was saying (basic concusion) and even had her talk directly to one of the other EMTs on the scene so she could be more assured there wasn't serious injuries or anything. We escorted the ambulance to the hospital...from a very safe distance. When the wife showed up shortly afterwards and things settled down and she knew everything was fine and such we started talking about ICE and how it "saved the day" !!!! I've also been on a few organized group rides where the Road Captain has actually asked everyone if they had ICE information stored in thier phones. As far as the wife and phone ordeal you had occur the other day..... for some hellacious fun you should check out http://www.spoofcard.com | |
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Cruiser
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Sparta, WI | varyder - 2008-11-06 4:08 .
However, when the phone rang, my wife saw that it was my number, I'm sitting beside her. She answers her phone and there's a pretty voice asking if she knew me... well, the look was priceless, both when she didn't know who it was and then when she figured it out.... whew!
Whew is right! It doesn't always work out that way. | |
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Visionary
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LaPorte,Tx. | I have ICE! Why not.  | |
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Iron Butt
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Rockford, IL | Forgot about this the other day.
Another good idea is to have different ICE info....
For example...I have ICE 1 as my girlfriend's cell and ICE 2 as my father's cell and ICE 3 as my father's home and ICE 4 as my mother's cell and ICE 5 as my mother's home....and so on. I actually have 11 ICE contacts in my phone, inorder of "importance". I even have the addresses listed for each of my ICE contacts. In a emergency situatuion that invloves me I want first responders and anyone else involved to have ALL of the information they could possibly need.
Can't hurt to have too many listed. My sister has ICE MEDICAL in her contacts and in the notes section she has her medicine allergies and also her pills that she takes daily. Now I'll admit the chances of emergency medical personel actually thinking to check an ICE MEDICAL contact might be a bit slim....you never know. Doesn't hurt to have it in the phone. | |
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