Simple solution : Always have the local search and rescue team in your contacts… Duuuh??
Yeah, the problem is i would have them in contacts listed under " rescue me!" And they’d call me from a number that’s not the one they gave me.
I would never have them in my contacts, I was just talking crap
A lot of places call customers from some completely random numbers, not the official one. Very annoying.
I was joking actually, like totally joking… Saying the hiker or anyone should have had local search and rescue team in his contacts so when lost caller ID would identify them so he would answer and not ignore the call because of unknown number… Was a joke… But never mind 🤦
So … if he could receive a call … couldn’t he make a call to someone he knows?
I remember reading about this. He was actually lost, in that he strayed from his trail and didn’t immediately know how to return.
Rescuers were alerted because a family member had reported him missing after he didn’t arrive home on time.
As the story goes, to the best of my recollection, the “lost” individual went for a hike and said they would be back before sundown. When they got lost, they obviously missed that deadline. They were biding their time in the forest until daybreak to try to find the trail to get back because it was too dark to look for it. So while he was “lost” it was mainly because the sun had gone down. He didn’t feel like he was in any danger, and wasn’t at any risk of immediately being harmed or killed; AFAIK they were reasonably familiar with that forest and they were more than capable of surviving in those conditions; so he had no motivation to seek help.
TL;DR: guy didn’t feel like he needed help.
I get that he didn’t feel like he needed help. But he told his family he’d be back before sundown so wouldn’t the thought to call or even text your family to let them know you’re ok cross your mind? That’s the part that seems strange to me.
whats strange to me is that the family didnt try to reach him first
Maybe they forgot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Been there for sure
Just forgetting to tell family I was going to be later than I expected
If I pick up, then they know its a real number and I get added to a hundred more lists. Its taken me years of diligently ignoring the world to get to the point where i only get a couple of spam calls a day. I might not answer, either.
What about voicemail?
I always answer, and I still only occasionally get spam calls. I wonder whether I’m just very lucky or if wasting their time consistently gets you put on lists of a different kind.
For real.
‘Unknown’ or ‘Suspected Spam’ yeah, I guess I’ll just die.
If you don’t, the spammers win.
Should have sent an email, come on now…
“Help I’m dying please send rescue”.
Well that’s an odd email from January.
The IT Crowd - Series 1 - Episode 2: Fire!
Lol “no. That’s too formal”
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. Otherwise it’s just another scam anyway
“Hey, sorry to bother you, was just wondering if you were dead. Please call back at your earliest convenience.”
Yeah right, as if I’m dumb enough to fall for that one!
Hopefully you’re not applying for a job haha
I wish people texted after failing to call me. I don’t answer calls from unknown numbers either but if you know me then text me so I know it’s not a spam number
My elder relatives trying to send a text:
I agree, but I still have this idea that it’s rude to text people unless you have gotten permission first. I think it’s a relic from the 2000s-2010s when not everyone’s phone had texting and if you did text them they could get charged by their phone provider. Obviously nowadays that’s much less of a concern, but still feels like a social grey area for some reason
Yeah, that’s an archaic mindset. Most people would rather get a text these days.
That’s so funny. I feel like it’s rude to call without texting first
Lmao both of these sound ridiculous to me
Yeah, but then you’d get a text from that unknown number asking you to call them back without saying who they are, either 👌 Source: I know people.
Because of capitlaism everything has to be ground into the finest point with the sharpest edge to make money. So the ability to talk to anyone on earth whenever you want has been reduced from a marvel scifi authors used to dream about to its current state were is an annoyance used to make your life worse whenever possible. It would be trivially easy to make like just a little bit better but that isn’t good for the gdp so people in risk of death can only assume the system is out to harm them
Has signal.
Doesn’t open map app.
In what imaginary world you’re living that you have data in the middle of nowhere?
ever been to Alps?
You should have GPS without any service at all. You might need data for the map to load, depends on the app. If you’re lucky and the app automatically cached it when you had signal, or you manually downloaded the offline map, then you could navigate home in airplane mode.
All of this is moot because I think I remember reading the rest of this story. The hiker wasn’t really lost, they simply went on a hike without telling anyone, and ignored calls during that time because they were trying to unplug.
deleted by creator
I’d do this.
Totally relatable
The telephone network is practically useless because we don’t have any authentication to it anymore.
When the phone company had to do something to physically connect a wire to a building, it was sufficient. But that I can download any number of apps that lets me war dial an entire continent pretending to be just anyone? Yeah the phone network isn’t secure enough for the average user.
It never really was secure. You could always set the Caller ID on an outgoing PRI trunk to whatever you wanted with any of the phone systems in the last half century. It isn’t validated.
Also phone phreaking existed. Just blow a whistle into the pay phone and get free calls.
I had a little touchtone dial pad I could put up to the mouthpiece and dial through with. It was sweet
It was when you had to ask the nice lady to connect you. That’s what happens when you remove all the infrastructure jobs.
Something similar, if less life threatening, happened to me. My car had been stollen a while back and I avoided the random call from an area code 50+ miles away. Turns out it had been the cops from that area telling my they found my (stripped) vehicle. Impound lot ended up getting the car AND overnight parking fees. Absolute racket.
Wait…is it real? Lol
Yeah, but it was a couple of years ago
This could be me lol
It is funny to be lost where you have cell service though.
Or lost when your phone has GPS even without cell service.
