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Once as a kid, staying at a hotel, I tried to call some family staying in Room 117. For whatever reason, the call didn't go through. I glanced again at the inst
by danielvf 8y ago
Once as a kid, staying at a hotel, I tried to call some family staying in Room 117. For whatever reason, the call didn't go through. I glanced again at the instructions on the phone, which said "please dial a 9, then your number". So I did. The police showed up fifteen minutes later.
And while "9" is a bad special prefix, the "91" in your story has to be the worst possible in the US.
- loeg 8y ago> And while "9" is a bad special prefix, the "91" in your story has to be the worst possible in the US. Possibly the only worse prefix would just be straight-up "911." 91- is just unimaginably dumb.
- chrisswanda 8y agoOur building once leased out a portion to a call center based in India. India's country code is "91" and to get out on the PBX was "9". But this old junky Nortel system would outpluse immediately when it saw the dial string "911". So when ever someone would try to dial "9911XXXXXXXX" it would immediately outpulse to our local PD when the dialed digits equaled 911. And whenever the outbound caller heard the PD pickup, they would get scared and just hangup. Ugh. Those were good times.
- itronitron 8y agoYep, I misdialed a friend's number once and hung up before completing the seven digits, then mistakenly let my parents answer the phone when we got the call back a few seconds later. Needless to say my parents were pissed and chose to believe that I was pranking rather than accept that I was simply an idiot.