Bluetooth headset helps foil Wendy's robbery
By Evan Blass 
posted Dec 28th 2007 10:02AM
posted Dec 28th 2007 10:02AM
An armed robbery at a Columbus, Ohio Wendy's restaurant on Wednesday morning was thwarted mid-progress, partly due to an employee's Bluetooth headset automatically answering a call because of the robber screaming at her to do just the opposite. We've all learned to live with the wonky voice command features in our headsets and handsets, but on this occasion it actually turned out to be a benefit, as 35-year-old Keith Allen Sturgill's screams to NOT pick up an incoming call actually opened the connection, while the parolee and his three hostages waited for the safe to unlock before customers arrived . The caller, a friend of the employee who worked at a nearby bank, heard the screaming and called police, who were eventually able to talk Sturgill into surrendering -- but not before he had "rammed the gun to his own forehead until he bled," as you can see from his mugshot. Luckily for the habitual offender, he'll soon be back in a familiar place where neither cellphones nor their many accessories will bother him for a very long time.[Via UPI]
I'll have that Bluetooth headset for next Christmas.
But it has wonky voice command features.
Technex: not a problem, apparently you'll just have to make your foe scream.
Hmm, a headset that picks up on its own and then allows people to listen in, and you WANT that?
hahahaha, dumbass redneck. I live in Columbus and I can tell you there's morons like that all over the place here...
There are morons, not there is. :P
That's funny. I live in Columbus, too, and I didn't even catch that gaffe. ;)
Clearly you haven't been to jail, there are plenty o' cell phones in there..
So that must mean.....
Wait, let me guess. They have internet access as well? :p
Dave Thomas FTW!
Single use cell phones (* others I imagine) are are some of the most sought after "contraband" in prisons these days (I've heard). Keith Allen Sturgill may have one sooner than you think.
L O S E R !!!!!
I can see his third eye
U mean the brown and pearly white, soon to be polised by a rod?
Speaking of crooks and cell phones
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news/policebeat.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-12-27-0140.html
bluetooth saved the day!
Uh, duh, folks, bluetooth headsets don't answer the phone. It was the phone itself that was responding to voice commands. Duh. Could've been a wired headset or earpiece for that matter.
Um... I think the headset responds to the voice commands and the phone does what the headset tells it to do. I smell troll.
Why was the employee wearing a Bluetooth headset anyways?
To answer her phone?
I do that all the time at work. No one really cares, and if you are at a slow point in the day, you can discreetly answer a call without anyone knowing.
Also, you can stream music through it during the day. It makes the day go alot faster.
The store wasn't open yet, so probably still had it on from the drive in to work.
Other things will bother him in prison though. You know what they are.
Who gives a rat's arse why the employee had her headset on...the story was about the idiot that's going to get his arse ram in jail. And the Darwin award goes to...Dumb ass in Columbus Ohio!
Can you hear ne now...
Clearly this guy needs counselling, and won't get it, great, see the next incident in a few years.
Oh yes he will complements of the taxpayers
That's a hell of a mugshot.
They should have let him shoot himself - one more dirt bag off the street and not wasting more of our tax dollars.
>>police, who were eventually able to talk Sturgill into surrendering -- but not before he had "rammed the gun to his own forehead until he bled," as you can see from his mugshot.
Yeah! Right! LMAO!
He... hmmmm... beat himself up (and probably tasered himself too) for a good reason though - Wendy's chain of restaurants originally started in Columbus, Ohio. So it's like trying to rob a sacred place. LOL
LOL. The speech recognition on my phone frustrates the hell out of me too. Never does what it is supposed to do when it is supposed to do it.
@Smartypants - Your sacred remarks do remind of a true story here in Las Vegas. Some perp ran into a shop and put a sawed off shotgun into the face of the owner behind the register.
The owner starts laughing. He asks the perp who put him up to this. The perp gets upset and screams at him to get all the money in a bag. The owner shocked justs points to the left of the shop where nothing less then 10 on duty police officers are as well as some off duty ones. The dumbass ran into the shop from the left side. If he had come the opposite direction he may seen the parking lot behind it with a bunch of police cruisers.
talking about speech recognition on phones.. it reminds me of the movie I am Sam remember??
test
He looks so kind!
The part that should be the issue is how a HABITUAL OFFENDER was free to obtain a gun and hold up a restaurant in the 1st place.
gawd that is one ugly mother fu*&er!
The two words I read here was "habitual offender." If he is an habitual offender, why wasn't he already in jail???
Speaking of what they are allowed, it is stupid. They get whatever they wnant, televison, weight room you name it. All complements of taxpayers. I say unless you are an endangerment to others they should all be put in the "special" facility that an police officer started (I forget where), where the prisoners wear pink clothing (including socks and underwear) and live outside in tents, and have to pay for their food (just enough food too, bologna sandwiches and such, nothing special). they don't have heat or air conditioning, some people may say that that is creul and unusual, so what at my house we don't have air or heat!
Too bad you have an internet connection, though.
Are you guys for real? The phone itself was on auto answer...duh.