Stupid User Tricks 0
“A visitor to the Oceanfront dialed 911 34 times unbeknownst to him,” Operations Manager at the Virginia Beach Emergency Communications Center Lori Stiles said. “911 attempted 44 calls back to him before we reached him and he indicated his phone had dialed an error and he did not need assistance.”
In other words, approximately 500 of the 50,000 calls they received in the third quarter were valid emergency 911 calls. And that’s just in one middlin’-sized metropolitan area. Wonder what the figure is nationwide.
How the heck do so many people manage to do this?
I’ve placed errant calls on my cell from time to time.
It has always happened when I got an attack of WDB (wrong damned button) and it’s not yet been a 911 call.
I placed the call.
I knew I did it.
I then hit the RDB (right damned button) and ended the call.
