Re: General discussion chat I've been to Gaylord before. Was a fun sign to see on my way up to Mackinac Island.
Re: General discussion chat FTFY (Massechusests is in 'Murica, the emergency line is 911, not 999 in the US)
Re: General discussion chat If you're gonna make a joke where you impersonate an American dispatcher, get your facts straight.
Re: General discussion chat Unofficially, 911 sometimes works in the UK. The mobile phone hardware installations have a built in over-ride for diverting emergency calls, as most of the hardware gets sold in the US, the factory default is to treat 911 as an emergency call number. When being installed in the UK, you are supposed to remove the 911 entry and instead add the 999 entry but quite often the installers simply add the 999 entry which then allows the system to accept both 911 and 999 as emergency calls. As this is technically incorrectly installed hardware, it should under no circumstances be relied upon to work. It does not work on landline phones which specifically reject 911 as being an incomplete number (as a UK telephone number when shorthanded can indeed start with the digits 911, but not 112 or 999) The other one is 112 (european union emergency number which is also in operation on UK landlines, although we still primarily use 999). The GSM cell standard requires phones to be able to dial 112 while locked (being a european created standard), for this reason all GSM basestations sold internationally will remap 112 as an emergency call, including in the US and Australia. Additionally many US carriers do natively support 112 for roaming travellers, regardless of GSM support. Most GSM phones will even dial 112 without a sim inserted, although UK telephone networks have actually blocked this feature because hoax callers used to spam it (no caller ID = untraceable) Oh, there is also 111 as the non emergency NHS number to call if someone is quite ill and you have no idea how to deal with them etc and 101 for police non emergency use. Fire service has no permanent non emergency number and must instead be called via the local stations actual telephone number.
Re: General discussion chat Well, here they taught us (and probably still teach) in schools that you need no sim and 1 signal bar to call 112, afaik it didn't get blocked here. Generally it is better to have multiple telephone numbers for various emergencies, where i live we have 158- Police 156- City only police 155- Ambulance 150- Firefighters 112- Europe Emergency System They teach all little kids various ways how to remember the numbers, like, 0 in 150 looks like a pond, and there is water, and you need water to extinguish fires, and so on. The good thing about more numbers is that you call for what you need, like, you call just the medics to someone who broke his hand, and you just call the police to a robbery. That saves time which is taken by redirecting in you have a single numbers, and even though it can be just like, 30 sec of saved time, it saves lives, so it is worth it really. Also there is better phone traffic parting, so the web gets less problems. Of course if there is a need for everyone at once (say, a major car crash - you need police, medics and firemen) you call 112, and they will call everyone themself, to save time. If you panic and just call 112 or any other emergency number it is okay, because they will redirect you to the right number, sorta like if you called 911 in america.
Re: General discussion chat Its only the UK that blocked simless emergency calls I think. Hoax calls to emergency lines are a severe problem in the UK, they really do constrain our resources, hell, night mum gave birth to one of my sisters it took an hour for an ambulance to arrive by which point sister had been delivered with dad acting as a midwife, why was it an hour late? hoax callers pretending there was somebody injured on a farm somewhere. Girl died of an asthma attack not far from here a while back, 2 ambulances were away on what ultimately proved to be hoax calls at the time (although this was not the only contributing factor, main one to me was the fact that the hospital was 2 minutes drive away, much quicker to drive there than call 999). Stepdad has a facial scar from an unprovoked assault with a glass bottle in the street, police immediately called, no units available, he'd been to A&E, waited hours there and then came home again by the time police managed to catch up, 7 hoax callers that night. Plenty of people used to remove the sim from the phone, make a hoax call and get away scot free because without a sim there is no identification of which device makes the call and you cannot trace down a repeat caller. Disable that feature, suddenly you have an identification for every caller. You still don't catch every one of them of course but it has both cut down the number of hoaxes and also increased the number of people caught. Public phone boxes have moved away from having coin slots for the same reason, they instead require you to get a phone card registered to you which can be used. 112/999/911 in the UK, just call and say somebody is hurt, they dispatch ambulance, you don't actually have to state which service you require, they can usually work it out. I think having seperate numbers is just more to remember under duress.
Re: General discussion chat @atomix that's actually not how 911 works "The PSTN system routes 9-1-1 calls to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) nearest to where the call originated. The operator at the PSAP gathers information about the emergency and alerts the proper agency - the police, the fire department or emergency medical services (EMS), or sometimes all three." this is how it works simless 911 calls are carrier dependent (pretty much all major ones allow this though, i've personally never heard of a carrier not allowing this in the US)
Re: General discussion chat That's kinda what I thought. Doesn't really make any difference. Either way they're just gonna send whichever service you need. They don't have to transfer you to a different line or anything. And I'd say it'd be really hard for a kid to remember all those numbers. Easier to just know 1. Most kids here know to dial 911 by the time they start school. It's simple.
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Re: General discussion chat I've set my hand on fire with lighter fluid a few times. It's pretty cool.
Re: General discussion chat It isn't that big of a deal. As long as you put the fire out quickly it doesn't do anything. Quite a strange feeling really. I know so many people that have done this and we ever get shit like this from people irl. Y'all should try living a little.
