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Do you fish it out or just chalk it up as a loss and get another one? Well, I'm a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle at heart and always up for excitement and challenges. So you know what I did.

It was about 1am when I arrived home from hanging out with some of my boys. I know, you're probably like... "You arrived home at 1am... that's when I leave the house". No need for old man jokes aiiiight. Anyway, I had just gotten out of my car and in trying to secure my Blackberry in my hands, it slipped. It didn't just hit the pavement however. It crashed down and fell directly into the storm drain. Yeah, that storm drain. I stood there for a minute replaying what had just occurred. I saw the slow motion version of me fumbling the phone like a bad RB exchange from the QB. I laughed and walked toward the house. I was going to leave it there and just get another one from the office on Tuesday after the Labor Day holiday off. Yet, I said to myself "You can get it. It won't be that bad".

Thus, I went inside and grabbed my tools. After gathering 2 flashlights and 2 flat head screwdrivers I went to my destination... the manhole cover. Within a few seconds I had pried the cover off and that cover was on the ground. I grabbed the large flashlight and looked into the drain. Ewwww!!! Cobwebs and all kinda nastiness down there. I looked around to make sure that I didn't see any bats as well. However I did see most of my phone. The battery, the backing and the SIM card were all in view. I took a deep breath. Where was the phone itself? There was only one place it could've been. I climbed down into the drain and sure enough, the phone was in the drain pipe. After I grabbed 3 out of the 4 pieces of the phone, I climbed back out and went into the house. There I grabbed a thin stick that was on the side of the fridge. I was gonna need to use that stick to pull the phone up towards me.

Went back down into the storm drain. Stretched my body out like I was heading to the finish line of a 100m race at the Olympics and used the stick to get the phone within reach of my hands. It took probably about 45 seconds, but it seemed like an hour. I aint gonna front, I thought some kind of creature was gonna pop out and scare me half to death, bite me or something. I survived though, but I was dirty as a mug. Came back in and my wife was awake in the bedroom watching TV. I told her what had happened. She asked me whether I had dropped my LG Dare (personal cell) or the Blackberry (work cell) in the drain. I told her it was the Blackberry and she just laughed. I had to endure the Crackberry lecture and reasons as to why I needed my work Blackberry on the weekends. It's convenience folks... convenience. I can admit that I use it a lot. Hell, I'm not paying for it. Might as well use it. But I suppose I can cut back on the usage somewhat.

Once I finished talking and she stopped laughing, I took off the filthy clothes and stepped into the shower where I got fresh and clean once again. I think I might've used half the bar of soap, 5 full oz of body wash and 2 handfulls of shampoo just to rid myself of the ills of that dirty storm drain.

Moral of the story. I don't know that there is one. I know for sure that I'll make sure to secure all keys and phones the minute I step from my car next time though. I don't ever want to have to do that again.

Peace Love...

G.

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In my 20s I had what is now called ME for 4 years and one symptom which recurred was double vision. As a result of it, I once had to pull over onto the hard shoulder of a fast dual carriageway at night because I was seeing two of every light. It was very very frightening and though I was rescued by the AA and taken safely home, I became an anxious driver. The anxiety increased after I had the Elder D and took the form of panic atacks when I drove and a strange visual distortion of the road which appeared to be tipping sideways. Sounds weird. Was weirder. And of course frightening. I more or less stopped driving because if you are walking along a pavement and it suddenly seems to tip sideways, it doesn`t much matter. If you are driving a car at almost any speed at all, it does. I despaired. And then we moved to the country and a village 8 miles outside Oxford, from which I would have to go, somehow, to shops, nursery school, doctor, everywhere. At that time, the SP was a fellow of an Oxford College and one evening at a guest dinner I sat next to a don who mentioned that his wife was a clinical psychologist. I had no idea what they did, only what psychiatrists were. He said that among other things they helped people overcome fears and phobias not by having them spend 2 years lying on a couch and go through being born but by talking and encouraging and gradually desensitizing them. They had great success with agoraphobia. I remembered his name and asked for a GP referral to his wife`s clinic. It was at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford and I saw not the don`s wife whose name was Gillian Butler, but one of her colleagues. It was on the NHS, it was brilliant and painless and after 4 sessions I went back to the car and drove on roads which no longer tipped sideways, causing me to have panic attacks. Some years later, I came upon a new book called MANAGE YOUR MIND. THE MENTAL FITNESS GUIDE by the same Gillian Butler and (Tony Hope ). I do not buy self-help books, can`t stand them, they`re mainly American with terrible long but bracing titles and in the trade are known as HowTo books. (There is even one called How to write a HowTo book..) But Ijust had a hunch that this would be a standby book that I would find interesting and useful. It did. It has. So much so that I just acquired a new copy of the latest edition. And I can unhesitatingly say that anyone with any sort of emotional or psychological or life-problem could not find a better book. It is not all for everyone. You pick and choose. And within a section which you might find relevant, you also pick and choose because everyone is different, noone size of tackling a problem fits all. It is full of common sense, it is practical, it is optimistic without being gung-ho, it is realistic, it is clear, it is extremely well designed on the page and so easy to follow. Let me quote from it so that you can see what I mean. I acknowledge here and now that I`m quoting verbatim, since a well-known media psychiatrist has got himself into hot water this week, for plagiarising whole chunks of work by his peers. Goodness, I am surprised, given the affidavits I have to sign every time I send in am MA essay, to say that it is all my own work, that any quotations have been full acknowledged and all references given in triplicate.

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MADISON, Wis. A 911 dispatcher received a call from the cell phone of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student sometime before she was killed last month but the call was apparently ignored, according to officials.
An official with the Dane County Public Safety communications said Thursday that a call for service was made from Brittany Zimmermanns apartment to 911 on the day that she was killed in early April, but mistakes in how the call was handled resulted in no police officers being sent to investigate.
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said an investigation into what happened is currently under way, although city and county officials were disputing each other in two different press conferences.
Confusion still surrounds the question of whether help should have been sent. While 911 officials said that the dispatcher essentially heard nothing to indicate an emergency, police are saying that there was evidence of an emergency on this call that should have prompted her to dispatch officers.
Madison police pointed a finger directly at Dane County 911 Center and unequivocally said officers should have been sent to Zimmermanns West Doty Street home after she apparently placed a call for help.
However, 911 officials said that that nothing during that call indicated an emergency was occurring and so the dispatcher hung up.
Joe Norwick, the director of Public Safety Communications who heads the 911 Center, said that that the dispatcher did fail to call the number back, which violates policy. He said that the dispatcher said she forgot to because she had two other 911 calls to answer at the time.
In this case, there were other 911 calls waiting, he said. I dont know what type of emergencies were waiting in the queue. And this person went on to answer other 911 calls.
Norwick said that its unclear that even if the dispatcher had made the call back, help would have been sent. This is because determining exact locations of cell phone calls is tricky and he said that police policy isnt to send officers to follow up on hang-up calls from cell phones.
Police said that they learned the day of Zimmermanns death that a 911 call had been placed from her phone. Police Chief Noble Wray said in a news conference on Thursday that they then told the 911 Center about it, requested they not released or discuss it, and later recommended to 911 officials that they do an investigation into what went wrong:
The 911 Center did not call back to the telephone number. Madison Police Department was not notified of the call and an officer was not sent, he said.
Norwick said that their policies in terms of returning calls depend on the circumstances.
It depends on the calls and what we know and what can we know and ascertain and what our policies are, Norwick said. Again, in this case, there were other 911 calls waiting.
He said that when the dispatcher received the call, she inquired several times to determine whether an emergency existed and received no answer to the inquiries.
Norwick didnt say if anything was heard from that cell phone call, what time it was placed or how long the call was, citing an order from Madison police because of the ongoing investigation. Neither 911 officials nor the police will release the tapes.
Wray said that its too early to know whether a better response could have prevented Zimmermanns killing or helped capture her killer. He said that hes concerned about the way it was handled. He said that he thinks the call contains evidence that should have been enough for the dispatcher to take it seriously and dispatch a police officer.
Norwick said Thursday that hes not sure if the dispatcher will be disciplined. He didnt rule out disciplining her, but characterized her as an experienced employee with a good record and a caring person.
He said that the 911 Center typically receives about 400 calls a day and about 10 to 15 percent are hang-up calls.
County Officials Defend 911 Center
County Executive Falk and Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney on Thursday both defended the protocols in place at the 911 Center.
They said that the policy on any hang-up in Dane County is to call the number back and the procedure for sending out officers depends on the call.
They said that technological limitations influence the existing policy. They said calls from land phone lines offer a number and an address for officers to go to, but theyre not always able to pinpoint a location with a cell phone call.
If theres no voice, no one talking, what do you do? Mahoney said. We rely upon dispatchers to listen for sounds that an emergency is taking place.
Falk said that theyre always reviewing best practices for handling the calls, but that law enforcement officials are typically determining how they want dispatchers to respond.
Until they tell us to handle a situation differently, we will continue to follow the policy theyve directed, she said.
Falk said that if any law enforcement wants to change the countys policy, she is open to starting those discussions.
Dispatchers Say Cell Calls Categorized Into 3
According to area dispatchers, emergency calls made on cell phones fall under three which were developed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
In Phase Zero, the dispatcher receives only the callers phone number. In Phase 1, the dispatcher can identify the specific cell phone tower where the call is coming from. In Phase 2, dispatchers are usually able to locate the callers phone using global positioning system (GPS) technology within 300 meters.
Newspaper Reports Alleged Theory Of Students Slaying
Meanwhile, Isthmus, Madisons alternative weekly reported on Thursday that police investigators think Zimmermann was stabbed and beaten to death inside her West Doty Street apartment on April 2. Police said the UW-Madison junior was killed after her assailant broke into her first-floor apartment. Zimmermanns fiancé later found the womans body in the two-flat house that they shared. Police said that the fiancé isnt considered a suspect.
Authorities are still searching for her killer and havent arrested anyone in connection the case.

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