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Vaguely related: in Brazil if you call the police and say you want to "order a pizza" they will play along, request your address, and send a police patrol to ch
by zorked 5y ago
Vaguely related: in Brazil if you call the police and say you want to "order a pizza" they will play along, request your address, and send a police patrol to check on you.
- jagger27 5y agoThis is a common thing for 911 dispatchers to be trained on. If you call 911 and they ask for “police, fire, or ambulance” and you just start having a normal conversation with them they’ll play along, usually with yes or no questions that can be answered with “yeah, my weekend was great thanks!” There’s pretty much no need to say your address either. The police will already have your location from the phone call.
- csw-001 5y agoGood advice - but in my experience working with public safety answering points, the ability to get accurate location data from cell phones and viop lines can be spotty, and depends on a number of systems working correctly. That’s all to say, in general - don’t assume they know where you are, if you can tell them, do (and be very specific about location within the building).
- dan_linder 5y agoDo you happen to have a list of these code words for other countries?
- tata71 5y agoIf it's the emergency number you're calling, and the operator doesn't understand the pizza/repairman etc code, they're poorly trained/suited for the job.
- babyshake 5y agoIf you call 911 and request a pizza, you might be pranking them or you might be under duress. Curious if they have a protocol for differentiating between these. I suppose if you give them your address and you're just joking you would be pretty dumb, not to mention incredibly immature to abuse emergency services.
- vinceguidry 5y agoThey do, they typically will ask if you're in duress and you need assistance. You can say 'yes' without tipping the person you're with off. The problem is most people in duress won't think to call the cops.
- tyingq 5y agoIt does have risks since the 3 digit dial looks distinctive. Or things like redial that could give it away.
- tata71 5y ago9110000000000 as many times as needed.
- noodlesUK 5y agoDoes this actually work on mobiles?
- chenxiaolong 5y agoYep. Same thing with 1800xx911xx (and so on). I made that mistake as a kid with my parents' old unactivated phone. That's when I learned any mobile phone can call emergency services.
- notatoad 5y agothere's a couple youtube videos floating around where the operator initially is pissed off that somebody is pranking them, but catches on pretty quick. the tone of a kid being annoying and a victim in distress is pretty different.
- thih9 5y agoDoes anyone have a link to a video or a call transcription?
- syngrog66 5y ago"Yes, I'd like a 16-inch handtossed..." -> 6 men in riot gear, blue pants, tacti-cool "... for the toppings I want pineapple, feta and onions..." -> recommend you bring stun grenades, tasers and tear gas ... etc ...
- midasuni 5y agoPineapple on a pizza? Surely that’s code for a terrorist event
- syngrog66 5y agosomewhere in an alternate dimension where we have "perfect equality/equity" a woke scold would chime in and scold you for being a pineapple-on-pizza-phobe, for violating their safe space, and/or using triggering language alas, I, as a pineapple-on-pizza-phile will have to suffer your slings and arrows in all seriousness, that could be a good way to encode additional meanings via term chord combos
- riffic 5y agodo people still order pizzas over the phone in first-world countries?
- throwawayboise 5y agoIt's the only way I order take out. Faster and easier than using an app.
- reaperducer 5y agoYou're doing it wrong. You're supposed to write a long tale on Medium titled "Here's what happened when I tried to order food over the phone from a restaurant" Then make a Tiktok Video about it tagged #lifehack. It's the only way the loafing class will believe you.
- nelgaard 5y agoyes it is the fastest way to do it. And it cuts out the middlemen.
- reaperducer 5y agoI hate to break it to you, but A LOT of the best restaurants aren't available on apps, or even online. I recently moved to a new (large) city, and have found that nearly half of the restaurants in my neighborhood aren't even in either Google Maps or Apple Maps.
- jmrm 5y agoThat's totally true. There are a lot of nice restaurant in the middle of the cities, outside the centre or the most crowded places, where the food is great and usually cheaper than the others. At least this is my experience as an European. If you go to Lyon, Madrid, Rome, or cities like that, you will have this kind of experience.
- ben_w 5y agoSure, I’m in Berlin and living literally directly up from a Domino’s. Several of the good Pizza places near me (not Domino’s) don’t have an app, and half their websites list only a phone number and physical address for contact. One has an email address but says they don’t take orders that way.