I.C.E.
Good morning slack-buddies, I just thought I'd share this with you after my ever frought-with-fear mother (bless 'er) forwarded me this email (spurred by the recent massacre in our nation's capital, no doubt). It is a "very good idea" (the importance of the e-mail was marked "High" with a little red flag beside the subject line, so it must be important):
Chris Carney, Chief Exec of the East Anglian Ambulance Service has launched a national "In case of Emergency ( I.C.E. ) Campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word "I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
It is a good idea, is it not? I am not really sure why the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston was actually needed, if I may be so callous, but I suppose it adds some kind of media-trusted validity to the already-good idea when you have the backing of a disfigured ex-soldier who's been on the telly a few times. For those not familar with Mr. Weston (not that I know him personally), he is/was a soldier who basically got burned somehow in some stupid war defending a stupid piece of land from stupid invading "enemy" forces (ie, the Argentineans, if I am not mistaken) so that those two flocks of sheep and the piss-pot radio station there would radio remain part of the British Empire. Excellent work! Anyway, Mr Weston sadly got injured very badly (burns all over his body), returned to the UK a hero, went on the telly and is now offically "supporting" and lending his name to campaigns for good ideas. There's a moral in the somewhere.
Chris Carney, Chief Exec of the East Anglian Ambulance Service has launched a national "In case of Emergency ( I.C.E. ) Campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston. The idea is that you store the word "I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
It is a good idea, is it not? I am not really sure why the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston was actually needed, if I may be so callous, but I suppose it adds some kind of media-trusted validity to the already-good idea when you have the backing of a disfigured ex-soldier who's been on the telly a few times. For those not familar with Mr. Weston (not that I know him personally), he is/was a soldier who basically got burned somehow in some stupid war defending a stupid piece of land from stupid invading "enemy" forces (ie, the Argentineans, if I am not mistaken) so that those two flocks of sheep and the piss-pot radio station there would radio remain part of the British Empire. Excellent work! Anyway, Mr Weston sadly got injured very badly (burns all over his body), returned to the UK a hero, went on the telly and is now offically "supporting" and lending his name to campaigns for good ideas. There's a moral in the somewhere.
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