alone included in the message to the lifeline contacts can be a payment method feature that allows the lifeline contact to use a credit or debit card paypal or some other similar form of a payment method to help the user during the threatening situation such as by making payment to a bail bond company attorney governmental entity or the like as determined by the situation for example if the lifeline contact can set up a bail payment through the program by responding to a series of questions posed by the program and the program would forward the gathered information to a bail bond company local to the detected area or zip code where the user is experiencing the threatening situation a usage record is then sent to the provider 39 s server step 418 a determination is made regarding whether the user is a subscriber to the provider 39 s program step 420 if no the process ends step 426 if yes the user 39 s location is detected step 422 attorneys in the user 39 s current area at the time of activation are notified step 424 and the process ends step 426 in use at the point of an impending encounter the user selects a device interface button on the user 39 s handheld device the device interface button runs a predetermined algorithm if the user suspects a traffic stop is due to suspicion of driving while intoxicated for example the user can select the device interface button related to such threatening situation immediately the user 39 s handheld device will provide instructions either via audio visual or both informing the user of.