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A key thing is to memorize or write-on-your-arm-in-ink the phone number of your lawyer or other support person in the event you're arrested; you may not have ac
by rdl 12y ago
A key thing is to memorize or write-on-your-arm-in-ink the phone number of your lawyer or other support person in the event you're arrested; you may not have access to your phone.
(The only numbers I can recall offhand are Apple's customer support number from 20 years ago (which is now a phone-sex line), a special/other "in case of kidnapping" number which is an Iraqi cellphone and disconnected or something, and Comcast Business Support. None of which would really help me now.)
- sneak 12y ago> Apple's customer support number from 20 years ago (which is now a phone-sex line), no, 800-SOS-APPL is still Apple's old support line. You are dialing S-zero-S, which has always been a phone sex line.
- rdl 12y ago+1 800 776 2333 is the number I meant (which was how I got to apple dev stuff back in ~1993 when I was 14 and had nothing else to do)
- mikeash 12y agoIs that really necessary? It's not like the police can say, well, you don't have the phone number of a lawyer immediately accessible, so we'll just deny you your fundamental right to have one. I guess you might end up spending more time in jail than if you can get someone to help get you out, or something like that, but you're not going to be railroaded to trial just because you didn't prepare a lawyer in advance, as long as you assert your right to have one present.
- rdl 12y agoThe point is to let people know ASAP that you've been taken, and to get out on bail ASAP. I agree it won't prevent you from getting a lawyer at trial, but I personally think spending time in jail is highly distasteful and something I'd like to minimize. (I've never actually been arrested, though, and my only time in jails or prisons has been fixing medical equipment in them.)