Emergency Phone Tests.

[gness]

I've just had message telling me how to turn off my phone for this should I happen to have a secret phone somewhere. Be no good me having a secret phone.....whenever it wasn't working I'd need Dave to sort it out for me. :-(

[barry1010]

I can't imagine anyone living in fear at home to the extent they need a secret phone would keep it switched on, even in silent mode.

[Bazile]

Gness , the more important question is , where does Dave keeps his secret phone ?

You know - the one he has for
'business' purposes ?

[gness]

Oh I can imagine a few adulterers or victims of domestic abuse thinking putting it to silent would be enough, Barry.

[sunny-dave]

I could tell you Bazile - but I'd have to run off with you then ...

[Bazile]

I sure Gness would forgive you, to be sure

[barry1010]

gnes, if there were any secret phones connected to the wifi I'd know.

[gness]

Kind though I try to be, Baz...I never, ever forgive.
Mind you, the image of you and Dave running off together hand in hand is something I may just forgive for the fun of it. :-)

[Bazile]

Holding hands and skipping down the road ,is not a good image

[lankeela]

If I was in such fear of someone that I had to have a secret phone I would be out of there like a shot. Why would anyone want to live like that?

[roadman]

actually a very sensitive subject because of domestic violence how many women have hidden phones just in case

[roadman]

lankeela it is not that simple

[chelle7272]

Lankeela it can take time to arrange to leave in a safe way especially if chikdren are involved.
In the UK 2 women every week are killed by an ex partner, often the children too, so leaving is not always an easy option.

[gness]

Exactly, Roadman. This is partly to make sure those women know exactly how to silence the phone. Some have children, may have nowhere to go. We can't say what we'd do were we in their exact position.

As for the adulterers. Must admit that did tickle me imagining the phone hidden in the bottom of a brief case suddenly screeching. :-)

[lankeela]

Well I don't understand them getting to that stage - the first time someone said or did something to me they would either get castrated with a carving knife or buried under the patio. There is no possible excuse yet these women (or sometimes men) either stay there or keep going back. No excuse. Ever.

[gness]

No possible excuse? If you say so, Lankeela. You must know every person who has been in a relationship that became abusive. I don't.

[webbo3]

Turned my alert off.

[gness]

Lankeela. Has it not occurred to you that there may be a member here who has suffered an abusive relationship and doesn't want to read how much better you are at getting out of one than he/she?

[barry1010]

Not everyone has support of family, friends. It must be hard to leave home with no money, three kids and nowhere to go.
Pointless throwing the abuser out, you'd be on pins waiting for him or her to come back

[ladybirder]

There is a lot more support for abused women today than there was in the 60-70s Lankeela. You need to have been in that position with several young children to understand.

[jourdain2]

Lankeela, I've been in the position of living in an isolated farmhouse in France with a man who I only very gradually realised would kill me if I didn't somehow get out. (It took years before his paranoia led him to try to strangle me.) Anyway, I had no quick or easy way out.
Laws are different in France.
It's a long story, but I can quite understand why some women simply have no option but to stay where they are and carry on walking on eggshells, whilst knowing that they are treading a very dangerous line.
It's a very serious point about this 'general alarm'.