"ICE" contact...

Instead of any useful information, this weekend the signs on chicago area
expressways had the following message:

PUT AN "ICE" CONTACT ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.


Anyone know what this means or have a clue why it supplanted any useful
traffic info?

"Brent P" > wrote in message
...
>
> Instead of any useful information, this weekend the signs on chicago area
> expressways had the following message:
>
> PUT AN "ICE" CONTACT ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
>
>
> Anyone know what this means or have a clue why it supplanted any useful
> traffic info?
>
It stands for In Case of Emergency. You're supposed to put an entry into
your cellphone's contacts with a number to be called, say if you're mangled
body is found but your cellphone is intact. Supposedly, it saves the
paramedics and others from hunting through the listing (i.e. does he really
want us to call his mom, or grandpa Joe, or Suzzy, or any of a bunch of
other numbers)

Brent P wrote:
> Instead of any useful information, this weekend the signs on chicago area
> expressways had the following message:
>
> PUT AN "ICE" CONTACT ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
>
>
> Anyone know what this means or have a clue why it supplanted any useful
> traffic info?
>
>

More terrorism on behalf of the US GovCo no doubt. Something similar
went around Aus not long ago.

Here's a clever idea, if a paramedic finds my phone after I've been in
an accident, call the number on my phone listed under "Home".

--
SL

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over
to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they
succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it"

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi Minister of Propaganda, 1933 - 1945

> Here's a clever idea, if a paramedic finds my phone after I've been in an
> accident, call the number on my phone listed under "Home".
>

or the one on my phone listed "WIFE"

Sir Lex wrote:
> Brent P wrote:
> > Instead of any useful information, this weekend the signs on chicago area
> > expressways had the following message:
> >
> > PUT AN "ICE" CONTACT ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
> >
> >
> > Anyone know what this means or have a clue why it supplanted any useful
> > traffic info?
> >
> >
>
> More terrorism on behalf of the US GovCo no doubt. Something similar
> went around Aus not long ago.

Not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy against you, ya know.

The point is that ICE is universal and they don 't have to look for wife or
f around.




"Ted B." > wrote in message
eenews.net...
>> Here's a clever idea, if a paramedic finds my phone after I've been in an
>> accident, call the number on my phone listed under "Home".
>>
>
> or the one on my phone listed "WIFE"
>

"Gazoo" > wrote in message
news:mnmOe.84968$vj.80617@pd7tw1no...
> The point is that ICE is universal and they don 't have to look for wife
or
> f around.
>

until I read this thread, I wouldn't have known what "ICE" is, so it must
not be that universal. Husband, wife, and "home" are pretty universal,
though. -Dave

"Dave C." wrote:

> "Gazoo" > wrote in message
> news:mnmOe.84968$vj.80617@pd7tw1no...
> > The point is that ICE is universal and they don 't have to look for wife
> or
> > f around.
> >
>
> until I read this thread, I wouldn't have known what "ICE" is, so it must
> not be that universal. Husband, wife, and "home" are pretty universal,
> though. -Dave

I've heard of it but only just recently.

I gather the intention is to make it the standard shorthand for emergency
contact info. That way there's no need to guess what number to call.

Graham

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:06:35 -0500,
(Brent P) wrote:

>
>Instead of any useful information, this weekend the signs on chicago area
>expressways had the following message:
>
>PUT AN "ICE" CONTACT ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
>
>
>Anyone know what this means or have a clue why it supplanted any useful
>traffic info?

A program started in Britain after the ragheads bombed innocent
civilians. In Case of Emergency is what it stands for. I spoke with
the captain of our local fire department, and he said he had just got
something on his desk about this a couple days before. He thinks it
is worthless, because emergency workers already look for things like
Mom or Dad.

On the other hand, he did think there may be some cases where this
would help, especially if people start doing this in large numbers.
He just doesn't think it is that important.

They google for this and you will find the web site in Britain that
talks about it. Homeland Security has nothing.

Dave C. wrote:
> "Gazoo" > wrote in message
> news:mnmOe.84968$vj.80617@pd7tw1no...
>
>>The point is that ICE is universal and they don 't have to look for wife
>
> or
>
>>f around.
>>
>
>
> until I read this thread, I wouldn't have known what "ICE" is, so it must
> not be that universal. Husband, wife, and "home" are pretty universal,
> though. -Dave

Me neither. And why didn't they come up with something starting with an
A so it would be at the top of the phonebook?

>
>
Ulf