Strange Vibrations

[bdickens]

Since I don't have an actual Crackberry, am I good?

[The Annoyed Man]

I've had a regular cell phone, and a Treo, and I currently own a Blackberry. I have never experienced phantom vibrations, and I use the vibrate mode quite frequently.

[Excaliber]

Do you have to have a cell phone or a Blackberry to experience Strange Vibrations?

No - but it helps!

[redoregon]

When I got my CHL, I switched my phone holder from my right side to my left to accomodate my IWB holster. Several months later, I still get a phantom vibration on the right. Finally gotten to the point that I don't grab for the phone anymore if the vibration hits me on the right. Might get a few odd looks if I pull my .40 and slap it to me ear!

[kidder014]

Yo it's about that time to bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme. I'mma get mine so get yours, I wanna see sweat comin' out your pores. On the house tip is how I'm swinging this, strictly hip hop boy I ain't singing this. Bringing this to the entire nation. Black, white, red, brown; feel the vibration! Come on come on, Feel it feel it, Feel the vibration!

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Be sure to try the chicken!

[81aggie]

Do you have to have a cell phone or a Blackberry to experience Strange Vibrations?

Is there something we should know ?

I asked first. Why, you got 'em too?

No comment.

Not sure what to think about this one

I feel the vibrations sometimes when my phone's not actually ringing, don't know what causes it. I've also gotten them when I've got a gun IWB. Weirdest was when I started carrying a mouse gun in a wallet holster in my back pocket. First day or two had this tingling feeling in the right hip but it went away.

Kind of miss it

[roberts]

Hallucinations aren't just visual. Some people hear voices that aren't there. Some people feel phones that aren't there.

[TLE2]

Had the same experience with a non-crackberry. Haven't in a while, since I "silenced" vibrate on the phone.

[sjfcontrol]

So, if the phantom-vibrating cellphone predicts the reception of a call, does that mean that a phantom-vibrating pistol predicts having to shoot somebody?

Sounds like a good plot for a Stephen King novel of at least a thousand pages.

[Keith B]

So, if the phantom-vibrating cellphone predicts the reception of a call, does that mean that a phantom-vibrating pistol predicts having to shoot somebody?

Sounds like a good plot for a Stephen King novel of at least a thousand pages.

No, that is an itchy trigger finger.

[AWB09]

Evil hand disorder.

[couzin]

I have had cell phones of one kind or another ever since a Motorola DynaTac in the late 1980s. In 1996 I got a Motorola StarTac clamshell which fit nicely into my front jeans pocket. I knew it had the first vibration alert offered in a phone, even tested it. Driving around a couple days later, just groovin to some sounds, thinking about the next big idea I was going to squash, when I apparently had an incoming call - which - apparently causes the vibration alert. I thought I was being electrocuted, either that or a rabid squirrel had just climbed up my pants. I grabbed the front of my jeans with one hand while simultaneously raising up off of the seat, kinda crying a aaaaaa!!! sound, while bringing my truck to a screeching halt in a cloud of north Texas red dust in about 4.5 feet from 50 mph, unbuckling the seatbelt, and leaping from the confined space that surely was to be my tomb - and stood beside it shaking my leg like a corner boy trying to dump his stash... I turned off the vibrating alert...

[Sidro]

Try working in an electrical control box with the power on looking for a problem when it goes off. I leave it in the truck now when I do that.

[Kythas]

Happens to me all the time. I feel it vibrate sometimes even when it's not in my pocket.

[rthillusa]

Wait until you have a full bore case of tinnitus from too much range time firing .357 with inadequate hearing protection. You not only have phantom vibrations but phantom ringing as well. Dang, there it goes again.

According to my ear Dr, who spent many years in the military and shoots as well, there is no such thing as adequate hearing protection against big bore noise. He said the best you can do is to use ear plugs AND ear muffs, but that still is not going to fully protect you. The sound travels through your bones.

Dang, there it goes again-

What did you say dear? Get a hearing what? Why are the grand kids just moving their lips, are they speaking? No, the TV is not too loud.

Dang, there it goes again

Robert