If memory serves, didn't Ryan on The Office (US version) come up with a similar system ?????
Fuck that shit! If I could run this without knowing anything about anybody, I would. Unfortunately, when it comes to bi-directional communications on demand, I need to know SOMETHING in order to reach out to you.
The way this service works is:
I have numbers allocated by various aggregators, carriers, SOMOS, etc.
These numbers are used for all kinds of shit.
8442227349 just happens to be a number I chose for this service.
When you text your zipcode to this number, I:
1.) Examine the contents of the message
2.) If it's a zip code, I store the record (phone_number, zipcode) in a database
3.) If it's porn, I tell someone else to tell someone else to send you a nice ass to look at from some other number.
4.) If it's bail, I delete the record of your phone number and zip code.
When you call 8442227349, the following happens:
1.) Your caller ID is searched in the database where {phone_number, zip_code} is stored to see if you've signed up or not. The check doesn't amount to anything right now because I'm still trying to decide if it should be OK for people that haven't signed up to call in to report an emergency. I know a handful of folks that just flat out refuse to sign up for anything, but that are decent people who could very well end up needing to call at some point.
2.) A list of dispatchers is queried for all available to take a call from someone in your zipcode. While the service is small, that's pretty much a list of ME, or maybe a few others, that I trust, straight from the 'hide.
3.) You're warned that the call you're about to make is going to be recorded and released to the public. E.g., don't fucking call this number if the situation isn't bad enough that you don't care that that's going to happen.
4.) If you accept that, you'll be connected to an available dispatcher.
5.) Once you're connected to a dispatcher, you're going to be questioned. The dispatcher is going to figure out who you are, where you are, what is going on, how it came to be that way (within reason), and possibly why the situation exists.
6.) If everything looks good to the dispatcher, he/she will record the findings in an incident report, and publish that incident report to the world.
7.) When that incident report is published, everyone within a configurable distance will be notified that some shit worthy of their attention is going down, and will be provided access to that incident report.
8.) If a recipient of the report so chooses, he/she may share that report on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever.
9.) You will also receive a link to the report and can do the same thing.
10.) If any recipient (including you, or the dispatcher) so chooses, he/she may attach video, audio, text, or whatever to the incident report.
11.) If someone completely unrelated to the event tries to do that, they will be denied. Actually, they just won't be able to, Even if they tried, though, they'd be denied.
12.) Everyone opposing We The People shits their pants because they can't spin or control that.
Lots of possibilities here.. GOOD ones. The kind that save lives and property.
It solves the problems we saw with Alexander Booth, if people use it.
