Emergency FAIL

[unixronin]

QUICK.  You're trapped in a storm drain.  You have a cell phone and, by good fortune, cell signal.

What's the first thing you do?

Call emergency services for rescue, right?

Not if you're one of these two teenage pre-teen dim-bulbs.

Comments

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

Bahahaha! You made my day, and I sincerely look forward to reading many, many more of this type of story in the coming years, as technology makes us stupider and more helpless under the guise of "enabling our efficiencies".

Is there an iPhone app for starting a fire in the woods to stave off hypothermia yet? If not, someone oput to get on that.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I swear I'm not making this up:

I read an article in New Scientist (or maybe Scientific American) recently talking about the increasing reliance of the younger generation of Inuit hunters upon hand-held GPS technology. The article mentioned that in several cases when for one reason or another the technology failed, hunters had become lost for days at a time, and in several cases had almost died as a result.

The article also mentioned that prior to the adoption of GPS technology among the younger Inuit, the Inuit language did not even have a word for "lost". The concept had no meaning among the Inuit. How could you possibly not know where you were?

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Probably because in inuit, lost meant dead.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, that's a pretty good theory.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

I don't even know how to respond to this...this...this is the most fascinating and horrifying thing I've read in months.

You sir, are a wealth of information I find very to be very interesting and important.