My honey and I got home around 1:45am this morning, because we were at a friends house making t-shirts for the band.
We stepped into the house, and as I was setting my blackberry down I noticed that it was making an "Emergency Call." I thought "Oh Crap!" and quickly hung up the phone then checked my caller history to see if it actually dialed. My call history did not show that I had made an Emergency Call so I thought I was off the hook. Within 30 seconds I received a call back from the 911 operator. At 1:49 am I answered and she asked if I had called 911. I quickly responded "not on purpose, my phone accidentally dialed." The operator then asked my full name with the spelling, home address and I reluctantly gave them to her (I was feeling super bad). She then asked if I had a Fire, Medical, or Police emergency and I said "No"... Embarrassing.
I went upstairs to get into some sleeping clothes, came back downstairs walked into the kitchen where my husband was making a peanut butter and jelly tortilla and our doorbell rang.
Our doorbell rang at 2 in the morning!
Shocked that our doorbell rang in the dead of night, My honey and I walked over to the door, opened it and the Police were standing on our doorstep. They showed up as a precaution to make sure everything was okay because 911 had been dialed from my cell phone.
I'm assuming 911 doesn't get "accidentally" dialed very often at 1:48 in the morning. Most people are sleeping at this time.
You may ask, don't you keep your phone on keypad lock? My answer: Yes, all the time and it was locked when the "Emergency Call" was made. Blackberry's have a fantastic feature where if you move your finger over the roller ball while the phone is locked you have the option of making an emergency call. The phone then asks, "Are you sure?" and if you press "Yes" then it calls. This must have all happened while I was holding my keys and phone in the same hand and the bumping between the keys and phone caused my embarrassment.
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When I had a blackberry, I accidentally dialed 911 at least 3 times. It's way too easy to dial 911 on those things, especially when they are locked. All you had to do on mine was scroll down once and click twice. It even dialed 911 from my back pocket one time while riding my bike to work!
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