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.

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[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

In their defense, I can imagine a situation in which their actions would make sense. If there's no guarantee how long the cell signal will be intact, I might type out a Twitter or a Facebook message. If it goes through, great; if it doesn't, I wait ten seconds for the Radio Gods to restore connectivity, and pump out 150-odd characters ("help! trapped! storm drain @ corner: Ellsworth/Fenton 20910!").

It would be a more reliable way of getting help than trusting a cell signal that was crapping out every ten seconds.

Of course, I doubt this is actually what happened. Sigh.