Mobile phones to announce 'you've been indicted'

[Thom Little]

South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, an official said Monday.

In a country where about 75 percent of the population carries mobile phones, prosecutors felt it was time to move away from sending legal notices on paper and send them electronically instead, said Lee Young-pyo, an administrative official.

"Most people in South Korea have mobile phones and since the notices don't reach them immediately by regular mail, this is a more definite way for the individuals to know they have received a legal notice," Lee said.

The indictments by text messages are not intended to take people by surprise. "People will receive a text message of a legal notice only after they apply for the service," he said.


http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-12-26T142238Z_01_FLE640541_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-PHONES.xml

[Olney Blue]

1. A great Christmas gift for KKKarl!

[Cha]

2. Yeah, a South Korean

mobile phone..all pre-recorded with time saving message.

[Spinzonner]

3. Perhaps we should require the whole Republican party in DC

to carry them

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. The postman only rings twice..... ding ding.... the new repuglican

meme may just become....

[Enraged_Ape]

4. This is horseshit

I'm ready to believe almost anything, but this is a total load of big stinky road apples, and that's all I have to say about it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. So do they need to apply for the text message service or

are they applying for a service that uses TM to let them know they have been indicted? And why would anyone want the latter?

[regnaD kciN]

7. I think it would be kind of a dead giveaway...

...if someone were to go to the authorities and ask to be notified of any future indictments via cell phone.

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I am going along with post #4

LOL