No More Drunk Dialing
Sarah Perez on December 7th, 2004
Isn’t this the funniest?! And everyone is talking about it (see trackbacks)! Virgin Mobile introduced a new service that will help prevent the drunk dialers from calling their exes, their partners, their bosses, etc. when they are 3 sheets to the wind. To use the service, you just dial 333 plus a phone number you don’t want to call when you’re drunk. Virgin Mobile will stop all calls to that number by blacklisting it until 6 a.m. the following day. It’s twenty-five cents each use, so if you’re an alkie, this could add up.
What a crazy idea, but then, when I think of who it’s coming from, I understand. Mr. Rebel Billionaire is a little wacky, himself, isn’t he? My only question is this: is this the end of booty calls? Just curious…
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*snort* On the advice of a friend, I always used to hide the portable phone handset in the top of the closet to prevent drunk dialing if I knew I’d be out drinking. And darned if it didn’t take contortions to get the thing back down when I finally sobered up. I think this is definitely better.
I hadn’t heard as to how it actually worked before…
Its a lot less interesting than the phone knowing that you’re drunk.
Now that would be something!
But you ask if its the end of booty calls, and I say never!
Drunk ingenuity is amazing!
It won’t be stopped by a little something you did while you were sober like “block the phone number”! It’ll find a way.
Ah, but this does nothing to prevent drunk email or drunk blogging. The latter being potentially more volatile (think Slashdot effect + alcohol) and the former being responsible for month long flame wars.
A technology that prevents booty calls,though? Say it isn’t so.
And here I thought we’d have mobile phones that measured BAC.