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Kidnapped Teenager Rescued After Reaching Out For Help In Among Us - The 17-year-old victim was rescued after contacting a player they met in Among Us, over 500 days after they were kidnapped (kotaku.com)
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[–] 29 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

Yeah, my old phone has no sim but still has 911 capabilities. It even scrolls the message "No SIM card - emergency calls only" across the top of the phone. I think it might be the law here, all phones whether cell enabled or not have 911 access.

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  • [–] 7 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

    I was watching a movie the other day and it got me wondering... How do the movie sets prevent cell phones from actually dialing 911 when the actor needs to call them in the script.

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  • [–] 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    For 911 calls, and most calls actually, they almost never show the screen of the phone being dialled anyway. They just show the actor tapping at the phone vaguely while the camera shows them from the side or the back with an intense expression, and then suddenly they hold it up to their ear and then they act like they're talking to 911.

    And if for some reason they really do have to show the screen, they will just use a non-functional phone with a fake app or graphical effects in post-production, the same way they make ghosts and dragons appear and spaceships come crashing out of the sky, etc. A phone screen is a trivial effort to fake.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    I can't remember which show I was watching last night (tried a few of them and gave up on all cause everything is seemingly terrible nowadays).

    But I commented because that thought specifically camemto mind since I watched them dial 911 exactly on the screen and press the green dial button and see the screen switch to "calling 911" or whatever it does which is what triggered my question.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    Maybe airplane mode, if not a fake app. Doing it in effects would be the same effort of recreation with way more extra work for worse results. If it matches an actual dialers modern design, rule of least effort would say airplane mode or similar. Else, fake dialer.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    No idea if this was used for any film, but you may make your own GSM "tower". Though it needs to be powerful enough that the phone won't decide to roam to something else, and that might be a regulatory issue.

    Also could use a fake phone app. Or a fake phone...

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