Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Just Say No To Caller I.D. Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 89 16:34:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 44 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 109, message 3 of 3 In article , decvax!decwrl!apple!zygot!john @ucbvax.berkeley.edu (John Higdon) writes: > In article , gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) > writes: > > 3) The case has already been made about a battered wife who is trying to > > call her children from a shelter. Other examples like this exist. > If the husband had an IQ of more than 50, he would assume that his wife > went to a shelter. Even if his IQ is 150 or more, in his highly-charged emotional state his behavior will probably exhibit the intelligence of a sea slug. People don't act rationally when they're in an irrational situation. There have been some recent nasty incidents involving college professors and high-level corporate executives attacking their wives and children when they discovered they were in shelters. > Besides, is he going to bust in to do harm to her? > Isn't that what shelters are for, to prevent that sort of thing? One of my best friends worked in a shelter for many years, and this is a SERIOUS problem. It is not at all unusual for husbands to somehow track down the shelter's location and show up at the front door with guns, axes, knives, clubs, etc. The local police are VERY familiar with the shelter's location as they spend a lot of time there arresting husbands who are trying to smash down the door and get at their wives. There are normally one or two injuries or deaths per year when husbands successfully get at their wives inside or right outside the shelter. And this is a shelter in a small city in a medium-sized urban area with a well below-average crime rate. At any given moment, several enraged husbands are cruising the city streets trying to find the shelter so that they can attack their wives and children. I shudder to think of the problems caller ID will present for shelters. I suppose they can initiate a policy of "NO outgoing calls to your husband," but the wives are just as upset as the husbands and they won't act rationally either. Often the irate husband will scream at them over the phone "what's the shelter's address?", and the wife, trained by years of unthinking subservience, will blurt out the address before she realizes the awful thing she has done. -- NSA food: Iran sells Nicaraguan drugs to White House through CIA, SOD & NRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161 "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without...a rebellion." Thomas Jefferson