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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I get your angle on this but the 5:30 AM point doesn’t make a lot of sense. He was calling the registered owner of the vehicle that was actively driving. Who should he be worried about waking up in that scenario?
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Did he call the wrong person though? He intended to call the registered owner, that's exactly who answered.
We don't know the reason for the call, mine was just a theory since I assumed CPS is told to limit side-of-road presence in bad conditions just like we were. It also could have been that the driver didn't match the registered owners description and he wanted to check the classic 'Hey, did your car get stolen when you were warming it up' or even some other reason
Again, I don't think you're weird for not wanting the call. My phone wouldn't even ring that early. I guess where we disagree is that I just don't think it's that invasive, I have call control enabled and if I really don't want to receive calls do not disturb mode is on. Doesn't change that this is still a normal thing
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But haven't we learned in this thread both JonDuke and his wife are registered, but only one number shows up for the cops? We don't see the problem with this?
What about any family with multiple drivers? Take my daughter...she's insured on four vehicles at my house and registered on zero of them. If a cop called me (probably the main guy on the car, although it could also be my wife) it would either scare the ever-loving sht out of me that something had happened to my daughter, or I just wouldn't believe them if they didn't spit some facts confirming their identity super fast.
This is unacceptable. Cops should not have access to our phone numbers for pretend driving infractions, or real ones for that matter. A phone number should be confidential. There needs to be a higher threshold for providing access to a beat cop to people's phone numbers than just running a plate.
If a detective needs my phone number for a criminal case or something, then obviously that's a completely different story. But phone bombing people in the wee hours on a subjective and not-illegal BS move is beyond the pale.