I didn’t think of this, but it is a good idea!
Following the London bombing, an English Ambulance Service has launched an
international “In Case of Emergency ( ICE )” campaign, as they have
discovered that at almost every accident scene there is a working
mobile/cell phone on the victim(s).
The idea is that you store the word ” I C E ” in your mobile/cell phone
address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want
to be contacted “In Case of Emergency”.
In an emergency situation ambulance. paramedic, police and/or hospital staff
will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able
to contact them. It’s so simple that everyone can do it. Please do it now.
Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it won’t
take too many ‘forwards’ before everybody will know about this. It really
could save your life, or put a loved one’s mind at rest.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc
-Jazzdogg-
“Don’t ask youself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Gil Bailie
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GREAT idea..
I guess I'm the only person on Earth without a Cell Phone though.. Dang...
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Jazz,
I saw this a few days ago and thought it would be a good idea so I put in my wife's cellphone number. Yesterday she called me from that phone and it said that I had a call from "Ice" -- I decided that I should rethink that plan before she put her own interpretation on it!
Woody
The first number in my lookup is " Home" - the two spaces cause it to be alphabetically ahead of all other listings. If anybody finds my body, they'll be able to figure out who to call real easy :-)Mark
Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an ax.
This seems like a good idea at first, but I'm not sure that it's really necessary. Most folks I know have already entered phone numbers for family and friends - often more than one number (e.g. home, work, cell, etc).
In an emergency, a quick scroll thru the list should establish contact with the right person - or someone who could relay a message to the right person.
I'm a customer service manager at a software company (but would much prefer to spend my time in the shop!). My cell phone stored numbers include hundreds of entries and I believe it would be challenging for someone to deduce who to contact. Granted I'm probably not typical of this community in this regard.
I think the ICE proposal is great! I added an entry right after reading the original post.
Good point, Ram. I keep my list really short - wife, kids, and a couple of close friends. It wouldn't work for other folks (like yourself) with long lists.
Actually, what would make some sense would be for the cell phone manufacturers to program in an ICE function that the end user could tie to whomever they want (wife, kids, girlfriend, parent, etc). Then, in an emergency, someone could "call" the ICE and it would automatically dial the number selected by the user.
Great idea, Dave. Maybe you could patent it? Probably not worth the effort, but just maybe ... ;-)
Ram, just an aside: that idea originated in London, aftre the tube station bomb blasts....
Edited 7/22/2005 3:25 am ET by Philip Marcou
Dave
I think the original idea was that the ICE function would contain details like your name, critical alegies or medical conditions (eg high blood pressure, alergic to penicillian, etc), as well as next of kin details.
However, I'm not sure that it's such a good idea for a stranger, or even a cop, to pick up my mobile and dial the LOML and tell her "the man who owns this phone is lying at my feet with one arm blown off and blood everywhere" — the resulting desire to rush to the scene would likely result in a second casualty.
ian
Maybe I missed something, but I thought the ICE was just a phone number so someone could be contacted if necessary.
Emergency workers have to make calls like this all the time, so hopefully the person making the call could handle it without causing too much panic.
Here is my pessimistic 2 cents:Imagine you've "misplaced" (read lost or stolen) your cell phone and some ill intentioned criminal picks it up. he puts on his best panicked good samaritan face and proceeds to weasel all the personal information he needs to ruin your credit or perform some criminal acts with the phone out of your panicked wife/girfriend/mother/father/whoever. Not a pretty picture. not very likely, but if it were to become very common knowledge about the ICE accronym....
emergency workers may handle situations like that regularly, but as I understand it the ICE protocol is intended to be a way for the first person on the scene to identify the victim and establish their NOK details even as they dial 911, possibly using the victim's phone.
The risk is that this good samaritan will then go "Mrs Smith, there's been a terrible accident. Can you tell me if your husband wearing a blue tracksuit and black joggers when he left home this morning? I think you better get down here right away"
I'm sure that something like that would eventually happen, but the I think that the good features of this idea outweigh the bad.
Your scenario reminds me of what happened to me when I was hurt in a construction accident when I was 19. We were waiting for the ambulance when one of my friends walked up. I asked him to call my Mom and tell her what had happened and that I was being taken to the hospital to make sure I was as OK as I said I was. We were about five miles closer to the hospital than she was but she was there when the ambulance rolled in. They checked me over and released me and Mom drove me home giving me holy hell every foot of the way - lol.
Mom drove me home giving me holy hell every foot of the way ..
Did she ask about the 'clean underware?'
I don't remember any mention of underwear, but it happened 40 yrs ago and my memory has dimmed a bit. (My kids claim that I've always been a bit of a dimwit - lol)
Mom was also fond of scolding my brother and me for not cleaning our plates because...."people are starving in China". One night, she ran that line and I looked at her and said...."Ok, Mom, name two of them". Pop wasn't one to allow any backtalk from smart-mouth kids and he tried to jerk me up short. It might have worked if he could have just quit laughing so hard. We never heard that line again - lol.
I'd just run 'outside' and yell FIRE!
That's too funny. I needed that.
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