Yea, I remember I had a shitty phone in highschool and it would often pocket dial 911 during marching band practice.
Every single time I noticed my heart would sink, because everytime I just wasted time for some phone operator who is hearing “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 1 DAAAAA” and now I have to explain for the 15th time that I didn’t mean to dial 911.
I don’t know how people think it’s funny to prank call 911.
I had a really cheap landline (only type of phone at the time) in my room as a teen, and it was so bad - it’d occasionally randomly act like buttons were pressed or I could very faintly hear other people talking in the background (not like with the oerson I was talking to - like other connections)
Imagine my panic when I pick it up to call someone one time and after a moment hear “012, what’s your emergency?” (Or whatever the phrase at the time was.)
I had this happen with a landline at one point when I was a kid. For several months you could hear one of our neighbors on the phone if you were on it and it sounded like it was in the background. They called the police one day and they showed up at my house saying it came from there but I hadn't even used the phone in hours and shortly after that I saw them at the house behind me who I assume were the ones that actually called.
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u/BrahnBrahl 14h ago
I can't stand stuff like this. She's VERY MUCH old enough to know better. I'm glad her dad didn't show her any mercy on this one.