Cell Phone Fears Grip The North

[george]

Cell phone fears grip the North

CHIANG MAI: -- People in Northern Thailand have been afraid to answer their cellphones in recent weeks, following claims that calls from certain numbers cause instant brain haemorrhages.

People are warning each other to watch out for numbers containing the sequence 3333. If the gossip is to be believed, when calls from the numbers are answered the phones send out a high frequency signal causing blood to explode out of the ear.

The deadly phone calls have reportedly been restricted to the North with reports from Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Phayao, Phrae and Nan.

On January 21 Kanchana Khayan, a fourth-year student at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, told reporters that her mother had warned her never to answer calls from a number starting with 083-333 and ending with 67.

A Tourist Police officer, who asked not to be named, said the death calls are all people are talking about in certain districts of Chiang Mai.

In Phrae, the phone calls are rumoured to have killed more than 40 people.

Amnuay Na Lampang, Deputy Superintendent of Song Men Police, said he asked his officers to investigate stories of people in his district dying after answering the phone. The officers could find no evidence of telephone-related fatalities, however.

Lt Col Amnuay said he believed the news had been spread after friends and relatives in Chiang Mai had called up warning people to be on their guard.

Thanom Buaphat, from the Northern Telecommunications Center, said the suspicious numbers belonged to telecoms company AIS’s Northeastern zone.

Mr Thanom said he had heard news of mobile phones causing people to crash their cars or giving them brain tumors, but never causing instant death.

“The stories were probably just made up by youths for a laugh,” he said.

Assistant Director of AIS's public relations department, Wilai Khiangpradu, said the news wasn’t true as mobile phones could not emit signals of high enough frequency to be a health risk.

Finally, after collecting evidence from across the North, the Khao Sod news team plucked up the courage to try one of the deadly numbers themselves.

The reporters called 083-333-5xxx, reportedly one of the most dangerous numbers.

Instead of an explosion of blood from the ear, however, they got an angry young woman who complained she had been called more than 100 times that day by people asking if she had really been sending out high frequency death waves.

The woman said she had been using the ‘beautiful number’ since she bought it three years ago. The following day she would buy a new SIM card, she added.

-- Phuket Gazette & Khao Sot 2010-02-03

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[bdenner]

This load of <deleted> has been circulating here in Isaan for at least two weeks now. There is another thread on this board, somewhere, about it.

[bkkjames]

Old news that was posted on this very site back then... why regurge it?

[Mosha]

It's the revenge of the South

[geriatrickid]

Maybe thread should have been titled "Ignorance grips Chiang Mai"

Nice urban myth though.

[crazyswede]

Thai´s are so funny you just got to love em´ 5555

... i mean 3333

[Hawk]

Its a variation on the Japanese movie the Ring, in the movie, if you watched a certain video then you would be dead in a week, now the Thais have moved the idea to cellphones.

Ghosts and goulies, and loads of nonsense rule in this country.

Look at the magic bomb scanner for an example of sheer brainlessness, and now we have the ridiculous death by telephone, I suppose next it will be the "evil eye" or some such.

[PoorSucker]

My wife has also been "warned".

I'm waiting for the movie.

[basjke]

I have a small sticker which if you stick it on your phone it will protect you from the deadly calls.Of course it is not cheap but better that then risking to die on your next phone call isn't it.It has proved to work 100% as nobody who used the sticker has died yet.

Can someone forward my PM to the northern people please.Commission available for whole sellers.

[Phil Conners]

^ Haha. Great idea. "If life offer you lemons make lemonade"

[dindong]

When I attempted to open this local topic in the Chiang Rai forum, it was closed.

Oh well rules are only for commoners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Market-Gossi...ls-t331616.html

[Meridian007]

The deadly phone calls have reportedly been restricted to the North with reports from Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Phayao, Phrae and Nan.

The deadly phone calls have reportedly been restricted to the excessively gullible and mentally deficient.

Fixed.

[Artisi]

Don't worry, it keeps many occupied and out of harms way along with those who look for lottery numbers in dead tree trunks and such mumbo jumbo.

[junglist]

Any one dumb enough to believe this should be removed from the gene pool.

[animatic]

I thought it was only AIS phones that killed you???

Not.

Just amazing what bullpoop people will believe anywhere.

Easy to see why politicians can control minds and pray on fears up there

thinking beyond rumors and looking for valid information is not on the menu.

Especially if YOU control what's printed on the menu...

[d0om4gloom]

Should have been 666 the number of the devil

[Phil Conners]

^ That's a Christian/Judaic thing. Thai's are nominally Buddhists.

[TAWP]

But we trust people to elect a government that will not abuse them in return for shiny pieces of glass...

[Payboy]

Any one dumb enough to believe this...

Dosen't need to worry about brain haemorrhage.

[hustlehouse]

You know what's really funny ........? that we all waste time reading this crap. But again someone decided that is news worthy and here we are. What about the numbers ending in 333 are they deadly also? Please guys grow some brains.................

[bkkjames]

Cell Phones: May Cause Tumors but at least you will remember the way to the doctor...

Ker Than

for National Geographic News

January 6, 2010

After years of speculation that cell phones may harm your brain, new research suggests they may actually fight Alzheimer's disease.

Yes, you heard right.

Microwave radiation from cell phones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's-like symptoms, according to a new study involving genetically tweaked mice.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...sease-mice.html

[ManilaLover]

[ManilaLover]

I have a small sticker which if you stick it on your phone it will protect you from the deadly calls.Of course it is not cheap but better that then risking to die on your next phone call isn't it.It has proved to work 100% as nobody who used the sticker has died yet.

Can someone forward my PM to the northern people please.Commission available for whole sellers.

Let me guess... you buy those stickers in a temple

[animatic]

Jatuporn 08 3333 6667

Wonder if it works...

Bet it would hit youtube if it's televised.

[slapout]

Old news that was posted on this very site back then... why regurge it?

If we can keep it in front of the fish/believers, productivity has and will continue to be at a higher level vs prenews/rumor level. Phone usage has dropped by ?% at the work place??? through out northern Thailand.

[bkkjames]

Old news that was posted on this very site back then... why regurge it?

If we can keep it in front of the fish/believers, productivity has and will continue to be at a higher level vs prenews/rumor level. Phone usage has dropped by ?% at the work place??? through out northern Thailand.

Besides for concerned providers, I don't see this as a real problem.

[boris52]

My wife warned me about this a few weeks ago but it was a different variation. She said if a private number phoned and the screen went red, then it is the work of a black magician and if I answered the phone I would die.

[Gobbledoc]

Thai MythBusters anyone?

Adam and Jamie to the rescue

TiT

[britmaveric]

Thai(s) been watching J-Horror movies? (One Last Call)

[Netfan]

This story is 100 % true! My ex-girlfriends cousin heard about her neighbor's brother's wife's father who it happened to! Be careful out there!