SWAT team besieges Illinois school in 'butt dialling' incident
Touchscreen buttock hip-hop blabber SOS error
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An Illinois man prompted a full-scale SWAT intervention on Monday afternoon by inadvertently "butt-dialling" his wife, who quickly became convinced the "garbled" call was evidence he was being held hostage.
The unnamed chap was driving home from his job at Carleton Washburne School in Winnetka when "his touch screen phone accidentally dialed his wife's number", as ABC puts it.
Winnetka Deputy Police Chief Patrick Kreis explained: "He was just talking to himself and the way the phone was positioned, it was somewhat muffled. She misunderstood him to be under duress."
The man's boss, school district co-superintendent Mark Friedman, elaborated: "He had the radio up and was listening to lyrics of hip-hop music or something like that, and she heard bits and pieces of it and misinterpreted the lyrics to think that he was in trouble."
Cue a 911 call and a 30-man SWAT cordon around Washburne School, which was unoccupied at the time apart from a few members of staff.
After a tense half hour, the drama ended without the need to storm the building. Kreis said: "The first indication that it might be a misunderstanding was 30 minutes after police were initially dispatched. He arrived home and his wife reported to us via 911 that he arrived home safely."
Armed operatives nonetheless searched the school for two hours as a precaution.
Friedman described his employee as "pretty devastated" and "shaken up" by his butt-dialling mishap. ®
COMMENTS
Sorry WHAT!!!
"Armed operatives nonetheless searched the school for two hours as a precaution"
Why, just WHY FFS.
Haven't they got anything better to do?
Repeat after me...
the terrorists have won,
the terrorists have won,
the terrorists have won,
...
@"someone needs to take a chillpill"
Its the hidden part of the American way of life and has been for hundreds of years. Here's a South Park's explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBHtjZmSpw (I assume that version of the cartoon has the correct audio as well, as I don't have sound at work).
Over 3 million Americans suffer seriously from panic attacks. Its a country with over 250 million guns. Just imagine someone shaking in fear behind their gun, as they hold their gun up pointed at what they fear and you have an image which explains American history.
For all the American bravado, its really dominated by fear just under the surface, which can easily surface far too often. Its not a way I would want to live, so I will never live out there. I certainly wouldn't want to bring up a family in that kind of fear driven environment. :(
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