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Dec 16, 2020 Autocorrect is to blame for mistakenly full-blown police response in Wisconsin. The Appleton Post-Crescent reported that a father in Menasha called 911, saying he got a text that his daughter was being stabbed. Eight officers rushed to the womans apartment, but they found that she was unharmed. It turns out that she was getting "swabbed" for COVID-19. The text she sent to her father happened to autocorrect the word to "stabbed." The entire situation took about 25 minutes, with...

US Cops Respond After Womans Text to Father Auto-corrects From Swabbed to Stabbed FOLLOW US ON: Technological development has its bane and boon. On one hand, a feature like auto-correct can make your typing quite efficient but it can also land you in trouble. Have you ever wondered about the embarrassing consequences of auto-correct? Or maybe sent something else due to auto-correct to your boss? Well, something similar happened in the US when a girl texted her father that she was being stabbed ...

By Chris and Rosie Autocorrect is to blame for a mistakenly full-blown police response in Wisconsin. The Appleton Post-Crescent reported that a father in Menasha called 911, saying he got a text that his daughter saying she was being stabbed. A team of officers then rushed to the womans apartment, but they found that she was unharmed. It turns out that she was getting "swabbed" for COVID-19. The text she sent to her father happened to autocorrect the word to "stabbed." The entire situation ...

Dec. 11, 2020 | By: Bill Osmulski After months of insisting people self-quarantine for 14 days if exposed to COVID-19, the CDC suddenly decided 7 – 10 days is fine in most situations. It took many people by surprise. “CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong, says new ‘science’ is only a 7-day quarantine after close contact followed by no symptoms and negative test, 10-day quarantine w/o testing and no symptoms,” Sen. Duey Strobel (R-Saukville) tweeted on Dec. 3 rd. Politifact leaped in...