Leslie and Nix

MrBishop

MrBishop

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Got this from MrsBish, who asked me to pass it on. Thought that it might be interesting for other women.

[font=&quot]The importance of *677 or *OPP.[/font]

[font=&quot]It was about 1:00 PM in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on.[/font]

[font=&quot]Lauren's parents have four children (high school and college age) and have always told them never to pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather wait until they get to a gas station, etc.[/font]

[font=&quot]So Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice and promptly called *677 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away.[/font]

[font=&quot]She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren't and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way.[/font]

[font=&quot]Ten minutes later four cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground.[/font]

[font=&quot]The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.[/font]

[font=&quot]I never knew about the *677 Cell Phone Feature, but especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a "safe" place. You obviously need to make some signals that you acknowledge them, (i.e., put on your hazard lights) or call *677 like Lauren did.[/font]

[font=&quot]Too bad the cell phone companies don't generally give you this little bit of wonderful information.[/font]

[font=&quot]Speaking to a service representative at Bell Mobility confirmed that *677 is a direct link to OPP Dispatch.[/font]

[font=&quot]So, now it's your turn to let your friends know about *677.[/font]

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As an aside. Do local cel-phone companies in your area have a similar thing going??
 
Cute.
We don't live in Ontario...over here, 911 is a free call be it on a cell-phone, pay phone or home phone. Fast enough for most.
 
*677 is apparently right here. To call the Ontario Provincial Police ( OPP), and only the OPP. And to boot, whichever OPP dispatch office is closest to the cell tower that picks up your call with the mishmash rerouty dealie that is the Bell Canada we all know and hate. Could be one on the other side of Ontario, pretty useless.

I'd still call 911 though. To try and remember *whatever the hell and hope that I actually get through to the right OPP dispatch office, and that if it actually is police, that it's even an OPP car as opposed to a local yokel car is too many if's for me. 911 can handle it.
 
On most cellphones holding down the 9 will call 911,pretty handy feature except the button you hold to access the voice dial is # ,which happens to be right under the 9 :rolleyes:
 
Inkara1 said:
On my cell phone it's 1, not #, for voice mail.
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Not voice mail,Voicedial ,I hold down the # and the phone asks me "who would you like to call" ,I say a name and because its been trained to associate a phone number with a word/phrase it dials . :geek:
 
On mine, it's the right arrow key, under the screen and above the number keys, to get to voice dial.
 
Inkara1 said:
On mine, it's the right arrow key, under the screen and above the number keys, to get to voice dial.
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I guess they must have changed it because of the obvious confilct,imagine trying to call your "dealer" and getting 911. :lloyd:
 
Maybe it's just a difference between US and Canadian phones, too... or different carriers or different manufacturers.
 
Just for the record...*OPP or *677 IS the OPP...atleast for Telus cellphones...that is what I have and I checked it on their site. 911 is good too but not everywhere out in the boonies has 911 service I don't think...
 
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