In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
B-A-D P-E-R-S-O-N
By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Sep 10 2008, 11:43 AM
Now this is an innovative idea.
May as well put those texting teens to work for the benefit of their community.
Since every teen seems to have a cell phone (how do they afford those hefty phone bills anyway?) and is texting like there’s no tomorrow, how about using them to stop crime?
That’s what’s being done at a pilot program in 10 Chicago schools.
"Crime Stoppers of Cook County is even offering rewards to tipsters whose information produces arrests. For murder cases, that can involve up to $1,000. "Practically every student these days has a cell phone. Students are texting each other messages faster than they can dial a number,'' Police Supt. Jody Weis said in announcing the pilot program with Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan."We want them to text a tip to the police -- a tip that could potentially save their life or someone else's."All text messages must begin with the letters "cpd'' and can include common text abbreviations.”
Read about it in the Chicago Sun-Times
HERE
Interesting that the messages have to be sent to Canada to be encrypted. Maybe they will come back in French. Go figure.
