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  1. #1
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    My cars making death threats!

    So i started up my car this morning and it made a death threat:

    http://www.imagehost.org.uk/uploads/9ceca263f5.jpg

    Then it predicted the end of the world:

    http://www.imagehost.org.uk/uploads/a03de1c09e.jpg

    The thing that puzzled me the most was how it could be quite so precise, i mean how does it know that everything will end in 183 miles?

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    Now that's a smart car

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    and its a fleet car!
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    About a 5 years ago the cops showed up at about 3:00 AM wanting to know why we called 911. After telling them we were all sleeping they asked to see our phone, which then confirmed their suspicions. It was dead. They said it happens a lot that when a cordless phone is about to run out of battery it calls 911.

    I guess, don't put a phone in your car.
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    it gets worse
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    Quote Originally Posted by page-zone View Post
    About a 5 years ago the cops showed up at about 3:00 AM wanting to know why we called 911. After telling them we were all sleeping they asked to see our phone, which then confirmed their suspicions. It was dead. They said it happens a lot that when a cordless phone is about to run out of battery it calls 911.

    I guess, don't put a phone in your car.
    That's crazy. I had many cordless phones and never had such problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by page-zone View Post
    About a 5 years ago the cops showed up at about 3:00 AM wanting to know why we called 911. After telling them we were all sleeping they asked to see our phone, which then confirmed their suspicions. It was dead. They said it happens a lot that when a cordless phone is about to run out of battery it calls 911.

    I guess, don't put a phone in your car.

    Whoa, thats crazy. Why would it do that? Thats like the worst glitch ever. I guess it helps you to remember to charge it though.

    Was it a cell phone or a home phone?

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    Automatically calls 911? O_o heh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan - Limestone View Post
    Whoa, thats crazy. Why would it do that? Thats like the worst glitch ever. I guess it helps you to remember to charge it though.

    Was it a cell phone or a home phone?
    It was a home phone, and they said it happens a lot but I never heard of it till then. We threw the phone away, and never replaced it. So for the last 5 years the telemarketers have probably been pretty frustrated, since they were the only ones that still called it.

    Heh, just did a search for "cordless phone 911" and it does happen alot - or at least used to:
    http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/lowbattery.asp
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    Quote Originally Posted by page-zone View Post
    We threw the phone away, and never replaced it. So for the last 5 years the telemarketers have probably been pretty frustrated, since they were the only ones that still called it.

    How does throwing your cordless phone away invalidate your phone number?

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    You can calla number to your heart's content but if there's no phone attached to it you won't get anywhere.
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  12. #12
    Quote Originally Posted by thebyp2 View Post
    So i started up my car this morning and it made a death threat:

    http://www.imagehost.org.uk/uploads/9ceca263f5.jpg

    Then it predicted the end of the world:

    http://www.imagehost.org.uk/uploads/a03de1c09e.jpg

    The thing that puzzled me the most was how it could be quite so precise, i mean how does it know that everything will end in 183 miles?


    I think your car may need an exorcism performed on it. Looks like a better predictor than Nastradamus!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AH-Tina View Post
    How does throwing your cordless phone away invalidate your phone number?

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    I read about this a while back... the dead phone calling 911. It's been a while though and I forgot all about it. That page you linked to is the exact same one I read last time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thebyp2 View Post
    So i started up my car this morning and it made a death threat:

    http://www.imagehost.org.uk/uploads/9ceca263f5.jpg

    Then it predicted the end of the world:

    http://www.imagehost.org.uk/uploads/a03de1c09e.jpg

    The thing that puzzled me the most was how it could be quite so precise, i mean how does it know that everything will end in 183 miles?

    I bet your car also knows what you did last summer
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