<p>^^ yeah-- my phone. A Blackberry. <a href=“BlackBerry – Intelligent Security. Everywhere.”>BlackBerry – Intelligent Security. Everywhere.;
Found out that younger s frequently won’t answer the phone, but will respond to text messages. Yay for modern technology</p>
<p>My daughter changed the ring tone on on my phone for when she calls to a male voice saying Mom, Mom and getting louder and louder. I didn’t know she had done that and had thrown the phone in my lap when I started driving and she called. To suddenly hear this strange male voice saying ‘Mom’ from the direction of my lap was disconcerting to say the least.</p>
<p>^^my phone is 5 yrs old (at least) it doesn’t do anything fancy. Like talk or make appts. I honestly don’t think it has texting. Soon it will need a rubber band to hold together. The service owes me a free one. But I’m saying it up for the next time one of my kids loses one-- or breaks one – </p>
<p>probably tomorrow.</p>
<p>Male voice emanating from lap yelling “mom”. Interesting imagery…</p>
<p>When I was in the Newark Airport once, someone had a ringtone that said, in an increasingly louder and louder NY accent “answer da phone… would someone answer da phone???”</p>
<p>BTW, my new phone was the first new one I’d gotten in I can’t recall how long… but the phone I had been using was the one my younger s used in middle school, and he replaced it with a newer phone (several times, due to breakage, loss, etc) So I was using his old reject from when he was about 12.</p>
<p>My daughter messes with my phone all the time and changes the ring tones. I have seperate tones for different callers…
Also, there is an alarm feature on my car…don’t really understand what it is for but when my husband was bored one day, he set it to go off at a certain location. It ook me a long time to figure out why I was hearing a " ding dong " when I was on my way to the mall…
Damn technology !</p>
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A Joke. But not a good one. :o</p>
<p>Probably everyone else already knows this but just in case: if your kid calls you at 2 a.m. from a friend’s phone at a very loud party in a different part of the city from where he resides, and asks you to call his cell phone (lost in route to that party) and ask whomever answers to please bring it to the address he gives you (where party is being held) you can call your service (at least if it is sprint family plan) and they will disconnect phone. And then in the morning you can call the nearest sprint store to your kid and buy a new phone, get it set up with the kid’s number, and arrange for him to pick it up – as soon as he wakes up after the party.
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This is not a joke. This is true. :rolleyes:</p>
<h2>And no, I have idea why he called to ask me to call the cell, instead of using his friend’s phone. Maybe there was an “angel” :D:</h2>
<p>I woke up thinking about octuplet logistics. Isn’t it possible to have a guardian appointed for the babies to oversee their care by Angels in the new home and just allow Nadya access to the babies but not allow her to expose them to media? Otherwise I’m still proposing the buying them away from her website. But it would have to happen so very fast! How much do you think it would take?</p>
<p>GA2012MOM wrote
Agree!</p>
<p>I feel sorry for all of those kids. People are treating them like they are animals in a zoo.</p>
<p>“Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman frantically called the police, fearing for the safety of her children because the paparazzi were trying to break down her garage door Tuesday night, according to a 911 tape released Wednesday.
“I need help and this is not safe for any of the kids,” Suleman says on the tape of the La Habra (Calif.) Police Department. “Please hurry.”
Suleman, who has become an internationally famous single mother of 14, brought two of her octuplets home from the hospital late Tuesday as reporters, photographers and onlookers swarmed the SUV that she was in with her babies. Photographers jumped on top of the vehicle and some of them became trapped inside the garage, which had a bent door.
Her older children arrived earlier in the evening. Six of the octuplets remain in the hospital.
On the 53-second call at 10:28 p.m. PDT, Suleman identifies herself to a La Habra police dispatcher .
“They are trying to break down the garage door. We pulled in and they are swarming the whole area,” Suleman said. She said people had come onto the property, but some got pushed out.”
[Octuplets</a> mom’s 911 call: Paparazzi endangering kids | Entertainment | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle](<a href=“http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/6319967.html]Octuplets”>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/6319967.html)</p>
<p>More like a circus…as long as people keep watching and reading, there will be paparazzi to cross these lines.
What a mess. I wonder if the paparazzi would have followed foster parents ( had there been some ) or family service agents ?</p>
<p>What did she think was going to happen? I am sure the media has been camped out for days at the house, so when she left to pick up the kids she had to see them…this should not be a shocker and she should have coordinated with the police by ccontacting them and saying the media is here and tonight I will be bringing my children home can you please assist by sending police to barricde the papparazzi. They would have done that…instead she desn’t think rationally and freaks, but that might have been her intention to get more fame the entire time</p>
<p>Poor kids and poor lady! :eek: Think of trying to manage with all that chaos. I think they should just let one media outlet do all the filming, then ban all other photographers from the culdesac entirely. Other mags, etc could just buy the photos from the sole-source vendor, and most of the profits could go into a trust fund for the kiddies. Otherwise, they are all going to be psychologically damaged due to all this madness! JMHO. And - poor other people living in or near that culdesac!!! Can you imagine? :eek:</p>
<p>I understand we have a free press and all that, but I would try to get a restraining order against anyone who was trespassing in my garage, trying to take pix of my kids!</p>
<p>This is a rediculous situation.</p>
<p>Breaking down the garege door? Wow… Although if it is just Nadya’s statement, we know how believable it can be :rolleyes: But I do agree - I wish the mob of paparazzi could give the kids a break. Talk about boogeymen popping out of the bushes in the yard!</p>
<p>While I empathize with the plight of the babies (all 14 of them) I believe that she brought all of this on herself. She wanted the attention, well now she’s got it. Maybe SHE’LL come to her senses and offer to split them up, but I so very doubt it. She thrives on the chaos.</p>
<p>I have mixed feelings about it. I do not think the paparazzi should be allowed to harrass someone in the manner reported. It may take police intervention to set up a parameter around her house, not sure. </p>
<p>This situation, however, was compounded by how much Sulemon has sought out media attention voluntarily. </p>
<p>There was always gonna be some media attention as she was in the news as the first live octoplets and all the other stuff about her added to that. But she surely has brought on way more attention and sought it out. </p>
<p>Still, I believe the children are entitled to some privacy or that cars and homes should not be invaded.</p>
<p>The paparazzi can definitely be out of control, especially in the Los Angeles area where there are so many of them. Since I live in the general LA area, I’m used to occasional news reports about accidents caused by the paparazzi being overly aggressive. When Brittney Spears was taken to the hospital, it seemed that half of the LAPD had to be sent out to control the situation. Remember Princess Diana? I think it’s completely plausible that, although they were camped out there for days, the situation turned crazy once the babies were home and I think it’s plausible that she would not have anticipated what it would turn into.</p>
<p>According to the local radio reports (several neighbors phoning in plus descriptions from the news reporter), the mob of people was on Octomom’s street all afternoon, and was so thick that the mailman could not reach the mailboxes without being shoved by the paparazzi. Some of the neighbors set up street barricades to try and reduce the crowd, but the police came and removed them, saying they were illegal. Why the La Habra police weren’t there to control the crowd when the babies came home, I don’t know. I think they have some splainin’ to do… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I find it horrifying that the babies are subjected to such chaos. I remember when S2 was a month old or so, and I took him to our local produce store. One of the owners came over to see him, and she clapped her hands loudly in front of his face. (She is Korean, and I think it is a cultural thing - meant to entertain babies.) He was startled, and I still remember it as something he should not have been subjected to. How any mother could invite this kind of circus into her children’s lives is beyond me.</p>
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<p>Maybe we could appoint one of us as a daily watcher and reader and then have that one person report to us here on CC. That way we can still be in the know but decrease the amount of people being counted as watching and reading…</p>
<p>I haven’t kept up. So 2 of the babies are at home now?</p>
<p>I am sure it was just a coincidence, but there was a “stretch mark” ad on the top of the screen when I opened this thread. </p>
<p>Either that, or the CC advertising people are geniuses.</p>