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

[rain-manpnw.livejournal.com]

Um ...

Did ANYONE notice the age of these girls?!?

12 and ...

10.

Hardly "teen-age dim-bulbs". More like frightened little girls who panicked and did the first thing that came to their minds - which was reach out to the contact they used all the time.

Sheesh, give 'em a break, 'k?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

OK, I stand minorly corrected: "Pre-teen dim-bulbs." If they have enough savvy to know how to post to Facebook from their cell phones, they have enough savvy to be expected to know how to dial 911 (or 999, or 000).

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with what someone said elsenet, it's parenting fail for not teaching the girls to call emergency services. But I also remember that a big thing in school was to remind kids that if something happens like an accident in front of them to remember to call 911 to get help.

We put the question to Goose and Pirate. Their first reactions was to dial 911.