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Screaming Beepers Cause Car Crash
Scott Hutton writes "Yahoo has a Reuters article about how a man crashed his car when fifty newly-purchased pagers all went off at once. It's all marketing's fault, too... "
See? that is why you shouldn't carry 50 beepers.
A man screaming to orgasmic climax while his girlfriend
gave him a blowjob, ran a redlight into a busy
intersection caused the largest accident in the
metropolitan area in history. 5 people
dead. 30 injured. The man who caused the accident
walked away with minor cuts and bruises, and a
wet pair of pants.
Not many people have seen the Message Watch by Seiko. It's a pager on a watch and I have had one since 1992. I went to their webpage to order one for my girlfriend and found out that they are discontinuing it! I havn't been able to get through to customer service to find out if they are also canceling paging service. Do any of you geeks have one of these and know the situation? (Seiko also hasn't answered my email) Has anyone had their watch recrystaled to work on another paging service?
She must of bit down.
I keep telling them none of that and *NO* chewing gum!
John Waalkes
I don't know how giving a pager to an employee
can be considered a new years gift!
I remember about 2 years back I was working on a
big project which was running behind. I knew that
any page to me at odd hours would imply something
critically wrong and had to go to work. For a
few months I was quite traumatized by pager beeps,
even on tv. My heart would race thinking there is
something wrong!
As far as i know, there is very low speed in pager ...
protocol (1200 or 2400 bods). And every pager has
his own address, so there is not possibility to
send message to all pagers at the same time...
It will be near 2 seconds per every pager,
and i think the noise will be equal to 3 or 4
pagers beeping together
Correct me if i am wrong, please.
hehe.
This reminds me of the alarm I used to have on mine, and I once set it for 7.30 in the morning. Shat myself....
Posted by gruv:
.35 cents..yer SOL. 1-800-COLLECT? Try calling yer sweety back using that..David Arquette must have one helluva lady. I did that once and got the beat down. I got a cell phone, I could use the paging feature on it, or get a two-way one. But I like the one I got and time is money. So I give my cell number out to a litmited amount of people, so people have to call my pager and not my cell and eliminate talk time. And I don't have to keep my celly on all the time.
I admit, I still have mine. But I still think they are "Electronic Leashes". I've had to change the number twice becuase of psycho ex-girlfreinds. I am very selective whom I give my number out to now. And it was always a pain in the ass to have it go off going down the road, and no way of calling someone back unless you went to go find the nearest payphone. Don't have a quarter..oops it's now
You know what, this started out as a two sentence post, just to comment and make someone chukle, now it's gone to far. Now that is a prime example on personal communications. I think I'll just strap a wire-tap on my arm and learn Morse-Code. But I think there is a legit Pager fetish, having it in your front pocket on *Vibrate*.
Remember when pagers meant either you were a Dr. or a drug dealer? Dope man dope man!
Me, I would just strut in the party with a garage door opener remote strapped to my belt. Ahh the good ole days.....
I don't like giving out my pager either. So the obvious answer for my e-mail enabled friends, is for them to write me an e-mail page. That way, any I don't like, I can filter. Now if that dang Chesh set and Set program weren't taking up my life, I might knuckle down and polish it off. I need an efficient way to snip a page out of the spool once it's fired off to the pager.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
I had a cell phone for a day and a half. Then I took it back to the shop and complained that Within 6 hours of getting the damn thing, I recieved three telemarketing calls...AT MY EXPENSE! I calmly explained that if he didn't return my money and canceled my account (without the early cancelation penality)I was going to call my lawyer. My firm has a very good lawyer as a customer and after all the work we did for him and her office, she told us that if we needed and legal help she would have someone do what they could. Needless to say, I got my money back and have sinve never succumed to the temptations of cellular. Now if I could rid myself of this damn beeper I'd really be happy.
-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
... and thanks to procmail I get my girlfriends' email directly thru SMS (Short Messages).
Is anything from their album on MP3?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
This post feels way too much like an urban legend.
I had one once. I grew very irritated when you couldn't use them for two-way communication so it's now resting peacefully at the bottom of a lake. :)
Get one good vibrating pager. Wait till its battery is running down, and it decides to completely flatten its battery by vibrating continuously. Rest it on each desk in your office, until you find a desk that resonates at the frequency of the pager. Then wait for everyone within a 100 metres to come and find out what the bloody noise it. They are wonderful.
Yeah I had one of those things too, when they first came out. My boss gave me one to be a guinea pig.. was fine with me. Essentially I got a free beeper for 6 months, heh. it was real nifty but I had plenty of problems with it. you only get about 90% of your beeps, even less when you're in a concrete building (as apposed to wood).. which really sucks. They're pretty unreliable and didn't sell too well - we got a LOT of returns... prolly 75% of ppl who bought them returned them like, within the week.
;P
I wonder what the morons are gonna do about the people they owe airtime
--Maj
One useless man is called a disgrace; two are called a law firm; and three or more become a Congress. -John Adams, 1776