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

[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.