Christina Morrissey

>Parents, please pass this onto all your new and potential new drivers!! I
>got this from my sister.
Christina in Seattle



>Interesting bit of information.
>
>
>Subject: #77 - It could save your life!
>
>
>Lauren was 19 yr. old and in college. This story takes place over the
>Christmas/New Year's holiday break. It was the Saturday before New
>Year's and it was about 1PM in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving
>to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put
>his lights on.
>
>Lauren's parents have 4 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 a gas station, etc., so
>Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly called #77
>on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull
>over right away. 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 where police cars where she
>was and there wasn't and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and
>that he had back up already on the way.
>
>Ten minutes later 4 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.... the man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other
>crimes.
>
>I never knew about the #77 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 #77 like Lauren did. Too bad
>the cell phone companies don't give you this little bit of wonderful
>information. So now it's your turn to let your friends know about
>#77.
>
>Send this to every woman you know, it may save their life.
>
>
>
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I checked this out on <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/">www.snopes.com</A> and found out the following...
 
In some U.S. states, <A HREF="http://www.shopoakpark.com/info-cellnumbers.html">#77</A> on a cell phone will immediately connect you to that
state's highway patrol, that code is not universal. Some states use #77, but
others use *55, *47, or *HP, and some don't have any special code at all.
Rather than frantically try to figure out which one will work in the area you're
in, get around the problem by going straight to 911.

diana,
The wackiest widow westriver...
"Education- compulsory schooling, compulsory learning- is a tyranny and a
crime against the human mind and spirit.  Let all those escape it who can, any
way they can."  John Holt


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