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| A Nokia 6280 mobile phone (A1-edition), an UMTS cell-phone (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In the summer of 2008, at night in a mostly safe
residential area of
Portland, I was raped by a drunk man who seems to have just wandered out of a nearby tavern. He stole my
cell phone and fled after the incident. There was a
phone booth across the street at an intersection. The phone was unfortunately vandalized and missing a handset. (And as of this writing, this phone booth formerly operated by Qwest/FSH Communications no longer is in existence.)
In cases of emergencies and reporting crimes time is of essence and not everyone has a ready access to a mobile phone. Not so many years ago Portland had at least three to five
payphones within a short walk of anywhere along a major street or business area.
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