Brickbat: Hey, Hot Stuff

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has fired Officer Angela Jansen for conduct unbecoming a state employee and for unauthorized personal use of a state database. Jansen's troubles began when she was off duty and on a date in Ankeny. She called an ex-boyfriend to come pick her up from her date. The two were in his car and began to argue. The argument apparently became so heated that the ex-boyfriend's Apple Watch determined there might be an emergency and dialed 911. When police arrived,  Jansen identified herself as a DNR officer and said she had a gun in her purse. She asked one of the officers if he dated older women and referred to him as "Officer Hot Stuff." She said more than once she was likely drunk. She also told the officers she had used a state DNR database to find out if at least one person she had considered dating was married.

Comments

[Jerryskids]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, protecting the environment with deadly force. Good thing the Texas Department of Natural Resources doesn't take its job quite as seriously or Charles Koch would be in a world of hurt on the cheap labor front.

[Carey Allison]

So much to learn from such a short article:
(1) don't carry your gun when you go drinking
(2) don't drink alcohol at all while carrying your gun
(3) avoid Apple watches like a carrier of the Red Death
(4) avoid anything that "hooks up" to internet without a specific command, especially if it "stays" hooked up and can't be turned off
(5) avoid crazy women - they are way more trouble than they are worth

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Department of Natural Resources should know better than to hire cougars.

[gaoxiaen]

They should start thinning the herd.

[Adans smith]

So, if your having loud rough sex your Apple watch will call the cops? Asking for a friend.

[SQRLSY One]

Holy Shiites! What if there's a loud argument and gunshots or gunshits ON THE FUCKING TELEVISION, while I fiddle with my watch, will my Apple watch call 911 on THAT, too?

[Davy C]

I guess I'll never be getting an Apple watch, if it's going to spontaneously call 911 if it detects an argument. That seems stupid and borderline illegal due to the number of false emergency calls it would make.

Unless the argument just happened to contain the words "Hey Siri, call 911."

[gaoxiaen]

For a "smart" watch, that's pretty stupid.

[mad.casual]

Beauty of proprietary algorithms: who knows.

Maybe the guy was driving, they were arguing, and he slammed the steering wheel with his hand when he brought the car to a stop and the GPS and accelerometer both agreed that a car accident had taken place.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

The argument was so heated the watch detected sky high blood pressure and pulse rate?

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[gaoxiaen]

I have high blood pressure. I guess that I should just get used to th police tailing me everywhere. On the plus side, I would be an unlikely victim for carjacking (if someone would want my 24-year-old clunker).

[John F. Carr]

After she filed for unemployment, abuse of the DNR database was not grounds for denying benefits. Drunkenly calling a police officer "hot stuff" was, even though she was off duty at the time.

[Longtobefree]

What about truth as a defense? Was/is he actually "hot stuff"?
Inquiring minds (many of them commenting here) want to know.

[Longtobefree]

They should have arrested the watch for filing a false police report.
I now have another reason to avoid Apple users.

[gaoxiaen]

Or deported it to China.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sounds like the natural evolution and convergence of snooping tech, authoritarian police state, and public intoxication.

[MatthewSlyfield]

" She also told the officers she had used a state DNR database to find out if at least one person she had considered dating was married."

I'd like to know why a DNR database would have that information in the first place.

[mad.casual]

Apple User: "Hey Siri, why does the Iowa DNR database have people's marital information in it?"
Siri: "I'm sorry. I don't know how to answer that question."

[gaoxiaen]

I'm sorry, Dave, but I'm afraid that I can't answer that.

[stainles]

So if someone dies or is injured in the line of duty, they know who to contact?

[mad.casual]

Admittedly, I’m not thoroughly familiar with IA’s bureaucracy, but that would be a State Employee Database, Office of Personnel Management Database, Central Records Management Services database, or similar.

The DNR would contain hunting, fishing, trapping, boating, and various land-use licenses and applications of otherwise nominally private citizens whose marital status should be irrelevant.

None of my current and recent past State licenses (IL, IN, MI, WI, FL) have my marital status on them* or asked because, rather pointedly, they don’t in any way transfer.

*With the exception, depending on the definition of "recent", of my marriage license of course.

[Think It Through]

You take your hunks where you can find them.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Especially using beer goggles.

[Dillinger]

first, never goto Ankeny, Iowa unless you are out of corn and don't want to stop at the 11 million other places to pick up corn before arriving in Ankeny.

second, the ex-boyfriend's Apple Watch determined there might be an emergency and dialed 911 the watch calls 911 for you?

[Don't look at me!]

I think she scared him so much he used the watch to call 911.

[Longtobefree]

"the ex-boyfriend’s Apple Watch determined there might be an emergency and dialed 911"

Got a little curious about SIRI becoming SKYNET.
The apple watch has a fall detection feature which can trigger another feature to call 911.
The call can also be triggered by a 'long press' of a button on the side of the watch.
And of course, you can say "hey siri, call 911".
There is an alert, and a countdown period before the call is actually made, to allow false triggers to be cut off.
So maybe a hand was shaken in someone's face, or sweeping gestures were made, or a hand was positioned so that the button was pressed.
Still, I will continue to avoid apple products as far as possible. There is only Apple's word for it that the features can be turned off.

[gaoxiaen]

Apple's word is worth as much as a CCP promise. I've never owned an Apple product and never will.

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