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The Prototype 
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Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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| Quote: | IN WHAT could be a first, the emergency services number was called five times by a man who could not get his iPhone to work.
Michael Alan Skopec, 48, of Kendall County, Illinois, protested during his arrest that the emergency number was all his phone could dial.
"Why is my iPhone not working?” Skopec asked when an operator answered his first call, website The Smoking Gun reported.
"This has something to do with Apple, I don't know,” he added.
During his second call to 911, a patient police operator asked Skopec if he had an emergency. “Yes, I do. My emergency is my f---ing phone don’t work."
When the operator asked him for his address, Skopec replied, "One oh blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, you understand that?"
During his third call Skopec asked an operator: "How ‘bout I smash this phone on the floor? Why can’t I dial the numbers I used to be able to dial?"
He later wondered: "Why can’t you direct me to the AT&T people?"
The emergency operator replied, "Unfortunately, we are a 911 dispatch centre.” |
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/michael-alan-skopec-called-emegency-services-five-times-because-he-could-not-work-his-apple-iphone/story-e6frfhk6-1226197585071
Yep... 911 couldn't help, but I am sure 000 are smarter and more useful. 
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
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Far from a first and doesn't only happen in America.
People call 000 for all kinds of stupid things. One dipshit I vaguely recall called multiple times looking for someone to help set up their DVD player. Colour coded holes and cables was obviously far too complex.
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HAL
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When you get a new phone it has to be able to dial emergancy.
000 gets a flood of accidental calls on Dec 25.
Kids trying out their presents etc.
Strange? Not really. |
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sq3
Joined: 30 Mar 2004
Location: Gold Coast/Tampa
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I find this one a bit more amazing -
http://www.inquisitr.com/19230/mcdonalds-911-call/
A Florida woman called 911 three times to report that a Fort Pierce McDonald’s had run out of McNuggets. Investigators have now released the audio recordings of all three calls
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The Prototype
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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| stui magpie wrote: | Far from a first and doesn't only happen in America.
People call 000 for all kinds of stupid things. One dipshit I vaguely recall called multiple times looking for someone to help set up their DVD player. Colour coded holes and cables was obviously far too complex. |
Yeah it why was I didn't use the old "Only in America" for this one, I read it and found it funny. Not so much for the poor 911 operator. I've heard some stories of some weird 000 calls.
I've wanted to work as a dispatcher but if you are getting these kinda calls maybe no so much. 
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stui magpie
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The poor buggers on the 000 line have an extremely limited brief. Their job is to ask "Police, Fire or Ambulance" and then patch the caller though to the correct area. The call should take 10 seconds or less so you get to talk to someone who's trained to ask the questions to assess your situation and send a response.
Some of the calls they get are incredible. Some people have very strange and personal definitions of what constitutes an emergency.
from peanuts wanting to connect their DVD player, to wanting to complain about TV, to wanting a tradesperson.
When there's a natural disaster like a bushfire the phones go into meltdown because so many F wits ring 000 to want to know where the fire is and how close to their house and whether they should leave or stay.
FFS, turn on the radio or TV. The poor stiffs in a call centre have no way of knowing stuff like that.
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luvdids 
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It's funny that we're always taught to only call 000 in an emergency. Yet, the Police seem to have a different view.
We came to work one morning and had been broken into during the night. Called the local police station, and the officer told us to call 000. The sales manager said "huh? It's not that urgent, we just need to report it". The cop was insistent, and ended up saying 'hold the line, I'll call them for you' - so he called 000 to report we'd been broken into. 
Still baffles me. Hardly life & death! Maybe he was too lazy.... oops, I mean busy, to come and do it himself. |
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| luvdids wrote: | It's funny that we're always taught to only call 000 in an emergency. Yet, the Police seem to have a different view.
We came to work one morning and had been broken into during the night. Called the local police station, and the officer told us to call 000. The sales manager said "huh? It's not that urgent, we just need to report it". The cop was insistent, and ended up saying 'hold the line, I'll call them for you' - so he called 000 to report we'd been broken into.
Still baffles me. Hardly life & death! Maybe he was too lazy.... oops, I mean busy, to come and do it himself. |
Must have been around the time Krispy Kreme opened up...
MMM... double glazed...  |
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