A couple from Oregon lived through the ultimate redial nightmare, however, when they found a three-minute answering machine message from their son, a soldier in Afghanistan who had inadvertently called home during a battle.
The family told KPTV, in Portland, Oregon, that Stephen Phillips and comrades in his military police unit were engaged in a gunfight with Taleban insurgents when his phone pressed against his Humvee and redialled his parents in the town of Otis.
Sandie Petee, Mr Phillips’s mother, and her husband, Jeff Petee, were out at the time but returned to find the message. They could hear shooting, swearing and desperate pleas for more ammunition.
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1 Mark Wadsworth // May 7, 2008 at 10:18 am
Life copies art. This reminds me of the scene at the start of the Transfomers film, which was meant to be funny, but hey.
2 Kit // May 7, 2008 at 11:04 am
He’ll be swearing again when he sees the phone bill.
3 So Much For Subtlety // May 7, 2008 at 11:44 am
It could be worse. I know someone whose husband sat on his phone. While in a bar in Bangkok. She answered the phone at home and listened to a very interesting conversation between husband and, I understand, a very nice Thai bar girl.
Still married.
But I believe she drives a BMW convertible now.
4 Mark Wadsworth // May 7, 2008 at 12:27 pm
SMFS, the wife forgave him when he explained he was actually talking to a bloke who happened to look and sound like a young woman.
5 MikeinAppalachia // May 7, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Interesting sound track. A .50 cal, and two SAW’s? Can’t make out the AK’s. May have been a 9mm handgun at one point.
6 Roger Thornhill // May 8, 2008 at 10:12 am
The ending is chilling “They’re coming! They’re coming!”.
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