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butt dial
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The tag 'butt dial' on WindowsForum.com covers accidental cell phone calls, often with unintended consequences. Discussions include high-profile incidents like Rudy Giuliani's butt dial being reported by MSNBC, and a case where a man's butt dial led his wife to mistakenly call a SWAT team to a school. These threads highlight the humorous and serious outcomes of pocket dials, from media coverage to emergency response misunderstandings. The tag is used for sharing news stories and discussing the phenomenon of accidental calls, particularly those involving smartphones and their touchscreens or keypads.
Man sits on phone; wife calls out SWAT team
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January 04, 2011
Worried wife calls police after she thinks her husband is being held hostage
In a spectacular misunderstanding sparked by an accidental cell phone call, a worried wife caused SWAT teams to swarm the Winnetka school...
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