In message , Rod Speed
writes

You might regret that approach when someone you care about
has just been runover and you refusing to answer the call means
that they die without being able to say goodbye etc.

They wont necessarily send the cops around until
after they have died if you dont answer the call.



A slightly different twist on this happened to a friend of mine last
week. She had been taken into A&E by her husband the day before as she
was not at all well and had bloods taken and checked over and sent home.
The next day the house phone rang a few times, but as calls are always
for her husband, who was out at work she didn't answer. Sometime later
her mobile rang, which she answered as that is how her friends contact
her, and it was the hospital telling her to get back immediately as her
calcium levels were somewhere between dangerously low and terminal.
Fortunately the hospital had eventually contacted her GP who had her
mobile number. They said their next move was to have called the police
to see if they could gain access to the house as they assumed she was
already collapsed.
--
Bill
( A different one )