Here's an article that prompted me to ask this question: So, should the police charge and arrest, or at the least ticket, people who tie up police services for frivolous or stupid things? If it were me, I would have taken her back to the station house and spanked the bitch.
gosh ppl need to learn when to call and when not to =/ there should be like a special class to teach these ppl
^ too many to handle..... its kind of hard to track each person down and hand them a ticket... because im sure somewhere along the lines of like 70% are probably from cell phones.......
No offense but I think you're ignoring how sinisterly effective Big Brother can be if it wants to. Imagine opening up your phone bill next month and finding a $500 USD Police Surcharge for an unnecessary call to Police Emergency. And they certainly have the evidence because, by law, all calls to police emergency are automatically recorded. Most people fail to fathom that the phone company regularly and instantaneously tracks MILLIONS of cell phone numbers as a matter of their routine operations. All it takes is a police request with a judge's signature for a number and the phone company hands it right over to them. As a matter of fact, if you're a cop calling the phone company with a proper request, it takes less than 60 secs for the phone company to divulge all of a customer's records; name, address, acct numbers of checks or credit card that you used to pay the bills, any other numbers associated with that account, et cetera. Believe me, once you call in, they know exactly who you are. Several years ago when cell phones first came out, some drug dealers had mistakenly thought that cell phones could not be traced because they were not land lines. (yeah, like the phone company doesn't know who you are, LOL...). So they talked about their drug dealing on these cell phones while the police was actually recording everything that they were saying. After accumulating several months worth of evidence, they put all of those guys in jail. Bottom line, as soon as you get a dial tone, somebody, somewhere, is connected to you and knows exactly who you are. Scary shit, eh?
the prob with this sucha law is : when is a call nunsance thats not exactly true, you can call 911 without sim card,
Yeah, that's true. That's about the only time though. But I seriously doubt that people are going to remove their SIM just to call 911 (or 999), but you certainly raised a valid point.
