Colorado hiker, lost for 24 hours, ignored rescuers' calls because hiker didn’t recognize the number

FoxNews ^ | October 25, 2021 | Bradford Betz

[billorites]

Reads like a blonde joke.

[FreedomPoster]

Just damn.

[George from New England]

What I want to know is with all this big brother and technology, why can’t the towers or ‘system’ work off the fact the calls are making it to a working phone. Just use the gps data or tower data when the call is processed to locate the phone itself.

This is totally within the realm of technology, I can’t buy that no law enforcement can’t do this.

[Larry Lucido]

I hate getting those calls for my car warranty when I’m trying to get rescued.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Yep, the Darwin Awards was probably also trying to track them down.

[Sans-Culotte]

The hiker told rescue officials they had wandered off the trail around nightfall and could not find their way back.

Is this another person who uses "they & their" as personal pronouns?

[CrappieLuck]

I can relate to this man’s adversity to SPAM calls
Had they sent him a text, he probably would have read it.

[blueunicorn6]

They are really going out of their way to not mention the hiker’s name.

[KC_Lion]

That was not time to take Spam Callers.

[webheart]

Averse not adverse. Aversion is the word you were looking for but spell check cannot provide it.

[Red Badger]

The hiker told rescue officials they had wandered off the trail around nightfall and could not find their way back.

Hiker, singular, THEY/THEIR plural?................

[Red Badger]

I get calls for my car warranty about to expire and it’s a 2014................

[rktman]

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[Larry Lucido]

‘Yes, I know I’m late on my Citibank card payment. If you can get me off this mountain, I can get it caught up!”

“What is your location, sir?”

“Nepal.”

“Oh, I am in Nepal. I mean, Chicago. Head south 1 kilometer and you will be on a winding path. Turn right and you will arrive at a village. Ask for Norgay. You can wait for rescuers there.”

[one guy in new jersey]

Good question.

News articles are about as fact-centric as birth certificates these days.

[joshua c]

was he lost? he was receiving calls seems like he could make calls.

[one guy in new jersey]

I’ll see your 2014 and raise the stakes...

I get calls for my car warranty about to expire and it’s a 2006................

[allendale]

Is there a near Darwin award?

[NormsRevenge]

They should have taken him back in the boonies and left him without a cell phone and smeared bacon grease all over him.

[EvilCapitalist]

Do what I do. Tell the Indian on the other end of the line that you drive a 1925 Ford Model-T.