The Reel Life will never butt dial
6 Jan 2011
According to the Chicago Tribune, a SWAT team was called to a local middle school after a woman believed her husband was kidnapped. The woman believed this was the case because she received a garbled call from her husband's cell phone.
Winnetka police Chief Joseph De Lopez said the reason for the phone call had nothing to do with a hostage situation.
"You know how when you sit on your phone when it's in your back pocket and it calls the last number that was dialed? His wife was the last number he'd dialed," he said. "The conversation led her to believe there was someone holding him hostage."
The husband was also listening to hip-hop music when he made the call, which further lead his wife to believe he was in serious danger.
Of course, the man was simply the victim of the dreaded butt dial. This butt dial, however, was a very public one.
The Tribune reports that SWAT team members, armed with automatic weapons and wearing bulletproof vests, "circled the school about 5 p.m. Monday, searching for a reported gunman who might be holding a hostage. The all-clear sounded nearly three hours later, after the man was found safe at home by police."
No one will be charged in the incident, and Lopez said in the end it was "good practice" for his SWAT team.
The Reel Life takes comfort in the fact we'll never be the victim of a butt dial. A front dial, however, is still a possibility.
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