Text Message: “The gun is on the cabin steps”
Link: IOL: Note to self: SMS to correct number
Leif Harry Ersland wanted to return a nail gun he had borrowed, so he wrote a mobile phone SMS to the owner saying “the gun is on the cabin steps.”
It didn’t take long for the police to turn up at his door, demanding to know whether Ersland was interested in weapons or had any enemies, the Haugesunds Avis newspaper reported Wednesday.
It turned out that Ersland had punched the wrong phone number. Instead of the message going to the nail gun’s owner, it went to a stranger, who called the police early Tuesday because she was suspicious about a possible gun deal.
Have you ever sent a text to the wrong person?
Me? Loads of times..
Oh just a wrong number story hey. When I started reading this I thought it was going to be an exciting piece about Bletchley Park sniffing 1 billion UK text messages per day and intercepting any trigger words before sending MI5 round to beat a confession out of the sender. ah well.
Posted by Steve Procter on November 15th, 2007 at 5:25 am.The system wouldn’t let me publish the Bletchley Park one. I kept pressing PUBLISH, PUBLISH for two minutes and then there was a knock on the door…
Posted by Ewan on November 15th, 2007 at 10:20 am.