Recycled Numbers?
A friend of mines gets emergency services texts to his mobile quite often.

We were in a pub a month or two back and I'd been doubting his stories of 4AM texts intended for Ambulance drivers. Next text to come through was one of these specials ones.

It read something like: "17 GROVE ROAD.HEART-ATTACK.ELDERLY MALE. DIABETIC."

He gets these texts all the time and they range from drunken brawls to decapitations.

He's spoken to the shop staff where he got the phone and they claim that mobile numbers are recycled after X amount of months/years.
He's also spoken to phone company and they gave him £5 worth of credit. I don't think they understood the situation at all.

Maybe the phones haven't wrecked HIS life... but someone out there isn't getting important msgs when they should be.
(tylrdiablos, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 1:29, 4 replies)

Occam's Razor.
The simplest theory is most often the correct case. So clearly it's because the phone is possessed. The damn thing is clearly predicting the future and is sending your mate spooky messages. FFS have neither of you ever been to a movie? This shit is real and happening all the time.
(St Sepulchre's Belle tolled for thee on, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 5:54, closed)

Why doesn't he phone up the local ambulance station?
I'm sure they'd want to know about this and would want to get it sorted.

(Although there's somewhat of an attraction to having a tracker of your locale's morbity in your pocket. I would take a certain soleace in seeing each one of those text and knowing that I was still alright...).
(dxg, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:52, closed)

If it's any consolation
This is just a pre-alert text. If the ambulance crew it was meant for don't respond within a set period (30 secs) they then get contacted on t'radio to get in th'ambulance to take t'patient to t'hospital.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:02, closed)

Recycling
Its nice to see the tellyphone companies engaging in some recycling...

A colleague of mine would often put his best mate's mobile number on all the unimportant forms (like when you do an insurance quote online for instance) where he would never ever need to talk to them again. All was fine and well until his girlfriends mother said: "Its so strange, i keep getting random text messages from lots of different companies." would you believe they are the same companies he gave his friends mob number to. Crazy.
( unsey a frizzy haired fruit since, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 16:17, closed)