Rad22

So….I was cleaning up my Stingray last Saturday morning.

I had just backed the car out of the garage into the driveway and switched it off. Apparently, along with some other electronics, OnStar remains active in the rearview mirror "buttons" for some time after you switch the car off. I was cleaning the rearview mirror and accidentally hit the "SOS" button. An emergency call initiated and I quickly pressed hangup on the steering wheel and "Dismiss" on the infotainment screen. I carried on with my cleaning and didn't think about it further.

About 10 minutes later, a police car pulls up in my driveway, the (rather attractive female) officer gets out of the cruiser and asks me if I'm okay. I replied that I was and she then told me that the police have been notified by OnStar that I had an emergency. I told her that I was fine and apologized for her having to respond. She was very nice and said "That's okay, it's a nice day, I was bored and I got to see a beautiful car." She told me to call OnStar from my car and tell them that I was okay to clear the call.

Apparently, the only way you can "deactivate" an SOS call is to remain on the line until an operator answers and tell her that you are okay. If an operator comes on the line and no one answers, the police will be dispatched. Regular OnStar calls can be deactivated by buttons, but apparently not SOS calls.

WICKEDFRC

Cool story bro.

And, a clean C7 to boot.

Kyflyer

Thanks, useful information.

Vetteman Jack

Good info to know.

mdiiulio

Pics of cop?

I mean car. (Damn autocorrect)

Papas02C5

Very good information... Thanks for sharing.

msm859

I don't know. Sounds like a fish story. I might believe the Onstar part, but you also want us to believe that there was a rather attractive and nice female police officer who came to your house???

Rad22

Honest truth. No lies. She was cute in an authoritative kind of way.

It helps that I live in a part of town with a nearly nonexistent crime rate where the police officers are not hardened or otherwise jaded in their treatment of the public. The officers on patrol around our area have it pretty easy, by and large...and they will tell you so.

IndyBlue

Good to know. Where the button is located I can see this happening a lot.

nh_mark

Make sure you are driving around during her shift..maybe she'll pull you over for some unspecified reason

-Mark

C7Joy

Good to know, thanks for sharing.

Stangslayer

Another reason not to continue the Onstar subscription!

6spdg37s

you should have asked her to frisk u...

kp

I thought it was going to a Penthouse forum letter at first..

Bill17601

I wanted to call 611 but I called 911 and when they answered I apologized for my mistake. In five min they called me back to be sure that I was not under duress when I called and lied to them. Very cool system. A car hijacker thinks he stopped the call doesn't know they will follow up to be sure it was a mistake.

Landru

Accidentally triggered my security system, thought I'd cleared it by keying-in code. Audible alarm stopped & I'm thinking all's well.
Minutes later I see sheriff's deputies surrounding my home with weapons drawn. Felt like a dofuss (not 'The' dofuss).

Makes sense & good to know an OS 'SOS' won't be ignored.

noel48

Took her 10 minutes? You could have been dead by then