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Once as a kid I managed to misdial the emergency number (112) by just randomly pressing the switch, unaware of the trick and with no intention of calling anywhe
by bemmu 7y ago
Once as a kid I managed to misdial the emergency number (112) by just randomly pressing the switch, unaware of the trick and with no intention of calling anywhere.
I wonder if the emergency worker believed me when I apologized for accidentally calling him.
- lopmotr 7y agoI had a similar experience doing some wiring on the phone jack and probably shorted the wires just the right number of times. At some point I heard a voice telling me I'd dialed the wrong emergency number (999 or 000 or something) and to hang up and dial the correct one (111 in my country). Lucky it was wrong because if I hadn't been able to receive their call back since I was working on the wiring, a cop would probably have turned up. It sounds like you were in a country where the number 112 was just 4 pulses in total, which is easy to accidentally dial. Some other countries require 3 sequences of 9 or 10 pulses (000, 111, or 999). 111 in New Zealand where the digit to pulse count mapping is reversed.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoWind blowing on overhead telephone wires could cause this with is why 999 and 911 where used for Police in The UK and US