So a guy is lost and has phone service? Why didn’t he just call out for help? Never mind the whole issue of not answering unknown numbers. He had service and didn’t use his phone? This whole story is BS.
90% of missing hikers get lost in serviced areas.
Pure curiosity , I wonder how many of those are capable of making a call when they need help?
It’s great to have service at the bottom of a ravine, but if I cracked my skull falling there, it’s quite a misleading stat
I sometimes go solo wild camping and I’ve had a few moments where I’ve thought “shit, I’m actually in trouble here”. My country is small so even in the wilderness you can usually get signal of some sort. But I never called for help, due to a mixture of embarrassment and not wanting to waste time and resources for a problem I created myself. Not including the countless times I’ve simply gotten lost.
I always got out fine by myself in the end, but I can totally see how people end up in some pretty bad situations or maybe even dying without calling for help.
This is what happens when you fail to reign in scam calls in any way for a decade plus.
Believe it or not, this is a perfect time to leave a voice mail. The not answering spam calls I am normalized with, but the refusal to use voice mail for important calls is inexcusable.
There’s people out there who haven’t disabled their voice mail? Wild…
I tried many years ago and couldn’t figure it out. I’ve been hoping it will eventually fill up one day so people just can’t leave messages anymore, but as I type that out, I realize that’s probably highly unlikely to ever happen.
My voicemail box is full because I don’t have the heart to clear it, I have a bunch of old messages from my father who passed
You should try to get those saved somewhere else, they won’t last forever in voicemail and you could lose them.
I wish I had saved some of my father’s messages 😔
It’s been like 13 years so either they are there or they’re gone. I can’t bring myself to listen to them, it’s too sad
I would not listen to it. Just send a text
I don’t have a voicemail set up specifically because I don’t want to dial in to check it. If you’re a real person just text me to get my attention.
Dialing into your voicemail isn’t as common anymore. I think my carrier still allows me to do that, but mostly it’s all handled on my phone nowadays
Dunno about other countries, but in Brazil you have to pay to listen to your voicemail
Never had that in the US AFAIK, but we used to have to pay by the SMS text.
Three decades, easily
Why didn’t they text? Cultural norms aside, texts usually go through more easily than calls in spotty areas. But yeah, I’ll take hypothermia and exposure over answering an unknown number any day.
Hey its me ur rescuer
If you want to be rescued sub to my OnlyFans site.
Click this link to claim your unclaimed property and get rescued.
wyd
Modern search and rescue tools actually do send a text with a link to ping your exact location. The text is intended to be customized to the situation so they know it is legit.
Clark, your mother Martha is worried about you. You are not in trouble. Please contact Metropolis PD to let us know you are safe, or click this link to share your location so we can come get you.
If I saw that show up on my phone then I would immediately assume that there’s a warrant out for my arrest. That message would be more likely to get me to huck my phone in a stream than click the link.
That’s your prerogative. Nobody is making you get saved. It’s not illegal to be missing.
At least you know that folks are looking for you and can make a decision based on that info.
But if you were actually injured and/or stuck somewhere, you might be inclined to click that link (or call your mother.)
I know this trick, it’s a virus
Nice try hungry bear.
I’m more likely to answer a call than respond to a text, and i feel like this is the same for most people. Besides, why would rescuers send a text?
Ok boomer
I’m 19
Age has nothing to do with it. You are still a boomer.
As they say, boomer is a mentality.
You’ll be in a nursing home a loooong time
Why would a rescuers not text? Especially after trying to call…
Porque no Los dos?
to reach you about your car insurance. are you fully aware of the high price of vehicle maintenance?
I’m totally with the hiker on this one, and this illustrates why spam calls are more than just a nuisance.
Yep. I’m lost, 2% battery left, I aint answering a call from an unknown number. Imagining dying of thirst having wasted your last battery on a telemarketing call.
Real talk the lack of caller id for all businesses or government lines is insane.
If you are not making a private call, on a private line, the I’d should be populated
The bigger issue here is spam calls.
If that shit was stopped, people wouldn’t ignore unknown callers.
While your solution is good it only solves part of the problem.
No, if a company was calling me and I didn’t want to talk to them, I’d still be better informed with caller id.
A spam call would be ignored because I wouldn’t recognize the business name
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Many countries have this. It’s just just shitty American carriers that hold us back by gating anything and everything behind a fee.
Actually, in this case, it’s partially the opposite.
The Madison River Telephone Company (later CenturyLink and now Lumen) started blocked calls and services from Vonage (VOIP) in 2005 because VOIP was a threat. The FCC stepped in and ruled against Madison River in what was really the beginning of Net Neutrality legislation.
Their ruling established that phone carriers couldn’t discriminate against other services accessing their network and its features. Among those features is Caller ID. Since any. VOIP phone system doesn’t actually originate from a telephone exchange, so they all essentially have to “spoof” their Caller ID.
The phone companies can’t block CallerID spoofing from spamme4s and scammers without violating a 20yo ruling from the FCC.
which is extremely outdated, with proper called ID these spoofed numbers should be presented as such on the caller ID
The problem is there is legitimate reason to spoof CID.
VOIP is one. I also have the ability to do it when I make a call from my work cell to have it display the city switchboard so people both aren’t calling me when I’m off duty, but also so that the people receiving calls see a call from the City, not from some random dude.
This is already being worked on with STIR/SHAKEN. Very similar to certificates with websites. You want to place a call as a certain number? Where is your proof you own that number? Now we’ll place your call. Your cell’s recent call list should already be showing little check marks on certain callers. Those are authenticated.
The issue is with cell phones and mobile networks. They don’t all support passing CNAM (caller name delivery) between them. I worked in telecom for over 15 years, dealt with only businesses, I never met a company that didn’t have CNAM set up.
In this day and age, people should learn how to text. That guy almost had to have an awkward voice conversation. 😳
I wouldn’t expect rescuers to be calling me (assuming this is legit), so yeah, I probably wouldn’t answer either
Cmon, of course they would. They use every tool available and the phone is right there.
“every tool available” okay text me then
Well then since they presumably got the missing person’s number from someone that knows them and knows they were missing, maybe they should’ve called from that person’s phone
Valid.
I will pay extra and tip the rescuers if they txt me.
…Dear Trevon, we’ve been trying to reach you about your car insurance…
I mean, did they leave a voicemail?
Same
Is that why Julian Sands died? ☹️
