GPS Phone Gives Away Prank Caller

A 14 year old Tennessee boy that was making prank emergency (911) phone calls from his school bus was caught after the sound of children laughing and his GPS enabled mobile phone gave him away. Dispatchers had watched the location of the calls, 7 of which were made in a 14 minute span, from their satellite based system, guessed that it might be a school bus due to the sounds of children, and contacted the local school district to track down which bus in particular it was.

I suppose this shows that the E911 system that the carriers complained about so much can, indeed, work as planned.

You can read the full story on Tennessean.com.

 

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