Pocket dialing may have saved Wisconsin woman

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — An accidental pocket dial from a cell phone may have saved a 20-year-old Town of Lima woman from greater harm.

According to a criminal complaint, 21-year-old Floyd Rashid, of Sheboygan, is accused of pinning his girlfriend to the ground and threatening her life Monday night.

The complaint says while the attack was happening, Rashid’s cellphone pocket-dialed his girlfriend’s father, who heard his daughter screaming and heard Rashid ask her if she wanted to die.

The Sheboygan Press reports the father sped to the couple’s house and found Rashid still pinning the woman. He then grabbed Rashid and threw him against a wall and Rashid ran away.

Rashid was charged Wednesday with felony counts of false imprisonment and strangulation and suffocation as well as misdemeanor disorderly conduct.