You can try calling the local hospitals that are trauma centers, but there's so little information they can give out now about patients, due to the HIPPA regulations - I'm not sure they can even tell you if a specific person has been admitted.
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, I might be able to go downtown and figure out which building he works in, walk up, and ask. (xp)
― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
But what if his work doesn't even know?
I was messaged through Facebook the other day from someone I went to school with. Apparently an old schoolfriend, who I had known since I was five years old and whose family had at one point been very close to mine, died in a motorcycle accident on Sunday. We had been friends through most of school but during the final years he'd actually become a bane in my life and would torment me and get people to pick on me and stuff. There were times when I wished he would have died back then, and I'm not sure if he were to be alive today he'd be that different towards me. Still he died, so it goes, and it feels very strange, especially since he is the first person from my peer/age group that I have known to die. So we didn't get on so well, but it's still a tragedy and it's hard to know how to feel about it.
― the next grozart, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
If something has happened to him, and his work knows about it, they might have changed his voicemail to direct you to someone else in the interim. Have you been by his place to see if he's maybe gone on vacation or something?
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
For all I know, my friend's phone broke and he's been vacationing in Yosemite for the past week. Ugh.
XP: No answer at his apartment.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Please note: umm, if you call someone else at his workplace to ask after him, don't start in saying you're all "concerned," which will make him sound like a flake or addict or mental case or other at-risk person -- just say you haven't been able to get in touch with him, and you're wondering if he's been in!
― nabisco, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Or, just act like a normal business contact - "I've been trying to reach Mr. x, he hasn't returned my call, is he out of town?"
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
He is totally flaky, which makes me feel all the more foolish for worrying about him, but I wouldn't let on to his work that I'm concerned. I wish I'd bothered to get his girlfriend's phone #. (xp)
― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
a little early to be moving on his territory dude.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
: - O
― Just got offed, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Ow.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
im really sorry about that. i couldn't help myself. really sorry.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
S'OK. I just hope the next laugh's on me when he calls up to tell me he's been making homemade pornos all week.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
you should totally call his workplace
― Heave Ho, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
After you get his job, you can work on his apartment and his girl.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
(oh that's the exact same joke as s1ocki, oops)
How do you find out if a friend who joined the military 5-6 years ago is dead?
― Abbott, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/castop.htm
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
every branch has a different locator service I think, actually
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
that reminds me I need to call up the NPRC and get my DD-214 I think, I don't know where it is
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I have it
― max, Friday, 2 November 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh fucking fuck. Jesus. Maybe I didn't need to know.
― Abbott, Friday, 2 November 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
:-/
― Just got offed, Friday, 2 November 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear.
― Tuomas, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Abbott?
― Michael White, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
That reminds me, a kid I used to know on a messageboard got hit by a truck and died like 3 blocks from my house last month :(