Commuters take note - the respectable person sitting next to you on the train fumbling with his or her cell phone may be a "toother" looking for sex with a stranger.

"Toothing" is a craze where strangers on trains, buses, in bars and even supermarkets hook up for illicit meetings using messages sent via the latest in phone technology.
It is made possible by Bluetooth technology which allows users to send phone contacts, pictures and messages to other Bluetooth-enabled equipment over a range of about 10 metres. Users discovered they could send anonymous messages to people they didn't know with Bluetooth equipment, spawning a craze dubbed "bluejacking".
It allows subscribers to store their personal details and what they want from a partner. When there are enough similarities between two people and they happen to be in the same area, it tells their phones to communicate with each other. If the other party is interested, messages are exchanged until a suitable location is agreed -- usually a public toilet, although there are tales of more adventurous spots such as deserted carriages or staff areas.
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Hmmm,,,maybe it's time for me to park up my car!!

Sneaking off to meet a complete stranger you've met electronically? A good fantasy, but that's as far as I care to take this dangerous concept!

  QUOTE (Chazzy @ April 2, 2007, 09:45)


Completley agree with you Chaz,,my sarcasm wasn't very well
emphasised at the end of this post!! Doesn't even bare thinking about the 'clientelle' that would even consider using this sad and weird 'service'...

Hey, I work at HERTZ as a shuttler (accept and move returned rental cars). I don't see that many women with bluetooth earpieces in their ears. I think the women are too vain to have their looks sullied by those things.

Something tells me that LIB is talking about "toothing" as it occurs with the men possibly waiting for woman to cross their path where she is donning a bluetooth earpiece. From my experience, that might not be too often. The men are the ones that wear the damn things. The good looking ladies? Not so much.......

  QUOTE (voyeurbill @ April 2, 2007, 10:10)


Bill...for the record...I'd wear a bluetooth...I just would style my hair so you couldn't see the entire thing and then I'd pretend to be Janet Jackson in the instance of one of these clandestine suitor's approaching me...I'd sing them a little song...perhaps Rhythm Nation...appropriate, don't you think...

So not gonna happen!!!

  QUOTE (Liberalwife @ April 2, 2007, 14:38)




Huh, isn't that what has been said about meeting someone from the internet??

  QUOTE (JCSOS @ April 2, 2007, 16:37)



We got choices in our lives
Use the good sense God gave ya(in real life and cyber life) or risk being a headline news story on CNN.

It doesn't matter where you are...plane, train, automobile...people are just freakin' scary. I had a girlfriend that shows commercial property and recently this guy made an appointment to see a space. After she completed the tour they were in the elevator going down to the ground floor and he dropped to his knees and groped her from the thighs down...he said, "I was just checking to see what kind of panty hose you were wearing, Legg's, right." He walked off the elevator and left the building.