Rant: Butt dials.

[jim]

I was awoken at 6:15 am this morning with a phone call, and by the time I could get to the phone it had clicked over to voice mail. I checked the number that called and did not recognize it, but did recognize the area code - 217. That's home. That's not good.

I scrolled a little bit and saw it was my brother in law. That's really not good, because he never calls. I tried calling back and it just went to his voice mail. I tried several times before I got through to him, each time I just took deep breaths and prepared myself. Mom? Dad? Something with his 2 week old grandson?

Nothing. Just an accidental dial, he didn't realize he did it. When I was calling him he was calling me because he saw my number on his phone and worried something was up with us.

Big sigh of relief, that was probably the worst butt dial I have ever received. I really thought for sure something very bad was up.

[stlouie_lipp]

I was woken up in the middle of the night (3:00am) by a call last week. It was just Per Mar security calling about some motion sensor that went off at the office. But, I know what you mean...my first thought upon being woken up like that is something really bad happened.

[Leroy]

A higher up in the Jack Links corporate structure was once at a strip bar trying to get a dancer to come back to his room with him. He at the same time butt dialed his now ex-wife. Couldn't happen to a better loser.

[jim]

A higher up in the Jack Links corporate structure was once at a strip bar trying to get a dancer to come back to his room with him. He at the same time butt dialed his now ex-wife. Couldn't happen to a better loser.

Love it.

[Sutter'sBeard]

A higher up in the Jack Links corporate structure was once at a strip bar trying to get a dancer to come back to his room with him. He at the same time butt dialed his now ex-wife. Couldn't happen to a better loser.

If it was post lap dance, it may be a possibility that it wasn't his "butt" that did the dialing.

[lukethedrifter]

I think a dial for my butt would be cool.

[IndyCards13]

This has happened to me a lot of times. It's really annoying.

[Smith Corks One]

I've been butt dialed a few times, but my favorite was when I woke up in the morning, checked my phone, and noticed that I had missed a call at like 2 a.m. from an old friend I hadn't been in touch with in a while. I called him back to see what was up, and he groggily said, "Sorry, I was out dancing. I must have accidentally [expletive] ring dialed you."

[KyCardinalFan]

Murder plot recorded on phone after man butt-dials 911
 

BY CARLI TEPROFF
CTEPROFF@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Tip: If you’re plotting to kill somebody, try not to “pocket dial” 911 and have your plans recorded.

That’s exactly what Scott Simon did after getting into a fight with another man at a Waffle House in the early hours of May 5, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

On a recorded line, Simon can be heard telling someone else that he’s going to follow the victim home and kill him. Minutes later, 33-year-old Nicholas Walker was shot and killed while driving his car onto Interstate 95 in Oakland Park.

“This is a first for me,” said BSO spokeswoman Dani Moschella. “Criminals say crazy things all the time, but I’ve never seen anyone call a recorded line.”

Homicide detectives arrested Simon, 24, of Pompano Beach Tuesday night. He is charged with first-degree murder. Moschella said while detectives do not believe Simon was the triggerman, he did coordinate the shooting.

...Yada, yada, yada ...

As for the call, Moschella said Simon’s apparent butt-dial helped police.

“He had no idea he called 911,” Moschella said. “He basically told on himself.”


Miami Herald

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