GPS Technology Gets Son New Heart

From the "Wow" department, a mother was located via the GPS enabled call phone in her purse so that her son could get whisked off for a heart transplant. She was apparently at a concert with her cell phone ringer turned off when news of the available heart came out. The Police contacted the mobile phone company who then traced her to the concert at Slippery Rock College. The police shut the concert down, stood up on stage and called out her name and got her and her son to the Pittsburgh hospital where they did the operation. The mother apparently told CBS's "The Early Show" that he was in critical but stable condition.

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