--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > > > From Fairfield e-news: > > > > > > A bizarre problem regarding 9-1-1 misdials out of the Vedic City Pundit Project was a topic of discussion led by Jefferson County Chief Deputy Gregg Morton at yesterdays' Board of Supervisor's meeting. When making a long distance call with their international cell phones some of the pundits reportedly have to dial out by pressing 9 and then seemingly two subsequent 1s which could put the cell phone into emergency mode and dial automatically prior to the rest of the phone number being dialed. Morton says there have been 41 of these calls in 2012, though the problem was first addressed by letter to Vedic City's Mayor Wynne in 2010. Morton also says the misdials are a waste of officer resources and time, because officers have to respond to every 9-1-1 call whether they know it's a misdial or not. Several solutions were brought up, including; attempting to change the dial out numbers for long distance calls or urging Vedic City to create their own police department to answer their 9-1-1 calls. Vedic City currently has their own private security force. > > > * * * > > > > > > Can you imagine the scene when the police officers confront the pundits who are blissfully unaware that they have been summoning emergency responders? > > > > > > What would be even funnier if the calls to 911 > > were *for real*, and this is just their handlers' > > cover story. After all, what cell phone requires > > you to enter 9 to "dial out?" What is there to > > "dial out" OF on a cell phone? That's something > > that happens on land lines. > > > > It makes a much better Movie Of The Week if the > > pundits are really dialing for help. :-) > > It certainly does, maybe a FF resident can try > "dialing out" and see if they can replicate the > "mistake"
Although I still prefer the movie of the week version, in which the pundits are actually dialing for 911, hoping that someone will rescue them from behind the barbed wire, the country code for India really *is* 91. So if the first digit of the number within India is a 1, or if the pundit is so spaced out from chanting and buttbouncing that they hit 1 twice instead of once, this could theoretically happen. For example, given this chart: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_India> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_India > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_India <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_India> if the pundit were trying to call someone in New Delhi, Jaipur, or Jammu, this situation could arise. On the other hand, you've got to admit that it's more amusing to envision 41 guys locked in a window- less room somewhere, deprived not only of their passports but their cell phones as well, being... uh...encouraged to chant by special Vedic correctional officers brought in from Mother Divine: Of course, having found this photo from "The Magic Christian," it reminds me that I once gave a TM intro lecture to Raquel Welch at 1015 Gayley in L.A. She was "dressed down," and so I didn't even recognize her during the talk itself. I don't think she ever started TM, but for those who dote on "celebrity meditators," she at least expressed interest.
