Slick Dude Butt-Dials 911 On His Way To A Drug Deal, Is Promptly Arrested
from the high-crimes dept
This somehow keeps happening. We've covered criminals accidentally butt-dialing the police and discussing their crimes while the authorities listened in, presumably with bemused expressions upon their fortunate faces. Then we talked about it again, proving that really stupid lightning apparently strikes twice. Well, it apparently strikes thrice, because yet another criminal, this one a rather minor ne'er do well, has landed himself in cuffs when his ass-cheeks went rogue and dialed 911.
Mt. Pleasant police say they arrested a man for drugs after he pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers heard him talking about getting high and going to a drug dealer's house. The call came in to the Maury County 911 Center Friday evening. Dispatchers were able to trace the location of the call to Don Pepe's Mexican Restaurant on North Main Street in Mt. Pleasant.When police arrived, O'Connor and his friend were already pulling away in a vehicle that had a rear light out and police pulled them over. Inside, officers found marijuana and and some paraphernalia, leading them to charge O'Connor with possession of both. He must have thought these NSA wiretaps had gone entirely too far, until police informed him of the call to 911. He reportedly had no idea the call had ever been made.
Now, while I will say it's starting to feel a bit strange to have police roll a squad car to combat an adult talking about marijuana when that substance's legal status is quickly being relaxed throughout the nation, one wonders if the kind of duncery resulting in a butt dial to police is the result of the drug. If it is, maybe that's an argument that we should all cool it a bit with the weed.
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What was really funny was that AAA and several other organizations at the time were running commercials about butt-dialing 911 and they all said that you should make sure your phone was locked before placing it in your pants. I sent an email to these organizations telling them that their advice should have been to not put your phone in your pants, because regardless to whether you locked your phone or not, many phones would allow you to dial 911 whether or not the phone was locked. According to Nokia, they were worried about liability issues, since in an emergency you might not think about having to unlock the phone to dial 911, and thus they allowed the numbers to be dialed in locked mode (but didn't think to put a watchdog in there to see if other numbers were pressed indicating a butt-dial.) The ads disappeared shortly afterward (though I doubt my email had anything to do with them disappearing,) which was sad, because they were really funny. The best one was the guy in the donut shop with the hot cup of coffee.
The new touchscreen phones have the same problem though. The screen usually has "Emergency Call" button, which when pressed when the phone is locked, opens the dialer. This is certainly true for Android phones, but I believe iPhones also have the feature.
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What if he didn't butt-dial the police? What if the NSA is feeding cops the data and then they just tell the criminal they butt-dialed, after they've taken his phone as "evidence?" Perhaps a more sophisticated version of planting drugs on the body?
Three times does seem to be quite the coincidence, I've never had my phone accidentally dial the police...my last call, sure, but were the criminals commonly calling the police?
Hmmmmmmm...
Slowly backs away...
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"Butt Dial" is obviously the codename for a NSA program to record sound from microphones of data enabled telephones, regardless if there is a call or not, and uploading it to NSA servers.
You did notice that your battery runs out really fast, right?
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Parallel Construction?
Perhaps the backdoor the NSA has installed on all phones is being used to conveniently dial 911 so they can record the call and generate the parallel construction needed for a bust.
Might be some NSA agent's spare time hobby...who knows.
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This leads me to the conclusion that either
a) there is a corollary between being a drug user and having a busted taillight
or
b) drug use is SO prevalent that there is a significant overlap between the drug using community and the small percentage of people driving with a busted taillight.
or
c) Since you can't generally tell if your taillight is busted without a second party viewing it (or having a sensor/rear camera that can tell), police can bust your taillight using some measure and then pull you over for it.
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i live in a ruralish area, and if you have something stolen that is -approx- less than a car, forget about it...
they sound annoyed you even call them with 'petty' shit like that, thanks for protecting and serving, donut-eaters...
what i don't get is, WHY don't you fucking make a fucking report, piggie, then maybe -JUST MAYBE IF YOU DO YOUR FUCKING JOB INSTEAD OF SCARFING DONUTS AND COOPING- when you compile enough reports to have a pattern, you can bust some thieves who wipe out TONS OF PEOPLES 'stuff', but none of it on a case-by-case basis is 'valuable' enough for the piggies to get out of their recliners...
*occasionally*, they will actually catch a thief by random chance (a salient quote comes to mind: even a blind pig will find an acorn once in a while), and -what a surprise!- they often find a garage or shed FILLED with TONS of stuff the thieves have been stealing/selling for YEARS...
huh, who woulda thunk it...
but the useless piggies haven't bothered, because it wasn't cars and expensive jewelery, but a teevee here, a bunch of tools there, an old trailer, an AC unit, whatever, but not really a -you know- 'sexy' crime and stuff...
they have close to ZERO interest in actually solving the petty crimes that MOST PEOPLE experience MOST of the time: 99% of us aren't murdered/raped/beaten during our lives: but *MOST* of the crimes we are victims of is petty theft, which the kops don't give a shit about...
the crimes that affect us the most, they care about the least...
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Back in my day...
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Correlation is not causation
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Rolling out a squad car.....
I would think that they would send the cops because he talked about going to the dealers house. IANAL or DA but I think that would be intent and probably the cops could have got the dealer in a sting too....but I digress.
As for dialing 911....i have a galaxy s4 and the emergency dial on that is super sensitive and I have called 911 by accident a couple times.
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Was the 911 call before or after the event?
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and duration of the call (not sure if a E911 call is timed) .
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Sounds a little fishy
First, can a phone really "butt dial" 911? Did the guy have it programmed as a speed dial? Was the guy using a phone marketed to elderly people with huge buttons that can be easily pressed?
What are the chances of a "butt" turning the phone on, entering the 4-digit unlock code, switching to the phone app, dialing a 9, then 1, then 1, then hitting Send?
Did the police release what kind of phone he used? It would be interesting to see if his type of phone is even physically capable of mis-dialing.
And why are people still getting busted for marijuana? Yes, I know it's not legal in every state, but why don't people just wait until it does become legal? Then they can get a license and they won't get arrested.
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In 2000, the number of butt-dials of the emergency services was over 30 000, so apparently it's a common problem.
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Just like Home Alone
Hey, gu-uys! I'm a big dumb pothead on my way to a deal, you better come and arrest me!
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