If it's important, they'll leave a message. Otherwise it's just another scam anyway
“Hey, sorry to bother you, was just wondering if you were dead. Please call back at your earliest convenience.”
As someone who does not answer unknown numbers I am laughing and also cringing
In what imaginary world you're living that you have data in the middle of nowhere?
You should have GPS without any service at all. You might need data for the map to load, depends on the app. If you’re lucky and the app automatically cached it when you had signal, or you manually downloaded the offline map, then you could navigate home in airplane mode.
All of this is moot because I think I remember reading the rest of this story. The hiker wasn’t really lost, they simply went on a hike without telling anyone, and ignored calls during that time because they were trying to unplug.
I wish people texted after failing to call me. I don't answer calls from unknown numbers either but if you know me then text me so I know it's not a spam number
if you want me to actually respond to you, leave a message. doesn't everybody know this at this point?
Death to America
Simple solution : Always have the local search and rescue team in your contacts.... Duuuh??
Yeah, the problem is i would have them in contacts listed under " rescue me!" And they'd call me from a number that's not the one they gave me.
A lot of places call customers from some completely random numbers, not the official one. Very annoying.
I was joking actually, like totally joking... Saying the hiker or anyone should have had local search and rescue team in his contacts so when lost caller ID would identify them so he would answer and not ignore the call because of unknown number... Was a joke... But never mind 🤦
This could be me lol
It is funny to be lost where you have cell service though.
I remember this article... He went for a hike and didn't tell his roommates when he would be back. He didn't answer their calls (I'm assuming he needed some time alone), and was gone for more than 24 hours so they reported him missing. He just wanted some time away from his roommates and they put him the the national news.
Sounds like some people I'd need some time away from too lmao. Good to have people that care tho.
Because of capitlaism everything has to be ground into the finest point with the sharpest edge to make money. So the ability to talk to anyone on earth whenever you want has been reduced from a marvel scifi authors used to dream about to its current state were is an annoyance used to make your life worse whenever possible. It would be trivially easy to make like just a little bit better but that isn't good for the gdp so people in risk of death can only assume the system is out to harm them
Something similar, if less life threatening, happened to me. My car had been stollen a while back and I avoided the random call from an area code 50+ miles away. Turns out it had been the cops from that area telling my they found my (stripped) vehicle. Impound lot ended up getting the car AND overnight parking fees. Absolute racket.
The telephone network is practically useless because we don't have any authentication to it anymore.
When the phone company had to do something to physically connect a wire to a building, it was sufficient. But that I can download any number of apps that lets me war dial an entire continent pretending to be just anyone? Yeah the phone network isn't secure enough for the average user.
