Dial 999 for emergency

contraste · September 21, 2009, 11:44:02 AM

Aimless web surfing found this photo.

bingster · September 21, 2009, 12:04:53 PM

Maybe you're supposed to press "3" nine times. Or worse yet, press "3" 333 times.

Dennis Markham · September 21, 2009, 12:34:30 PM

That's pretty funny....something Jay Leno would show on his Headlines segment.

Phonesrfun · September 21, 2009, 02:10:47 PM

I think our (US) 911 was originally going to be like the UK 999, but they made it 911 so it would not take so long to dial on a rotary phone. At least that's the way I heard it. Does the UK still use 999?

-Bill

contraste · September 21, 2009, 03:46:29 PM

Quote from: Phonesrfun on September 21, 2009, 02:10:47 PM
I think our (US) 911 was originally going to be like the UK 999, but they made it 911 so it would not take so long to dial on a rotary phone. At least that's the way I heard it. Does the UK still use 999?

-Bill

We do but I think you can dial 911 on mobile (cell) phones.

McHeath · September 21, 2009, 08:04:03 PM

You can use any combination of the 1, 2 and 3 to add up to nine, but you can't press any number more than once.

bwanna · September 21, 2009, 09:59:05 PM

Quote from: McHeath on September 21, 2009, 08:04:03 PM
You can use any combination of the 1, 2 and 3 to add up to nine, but you can't press any number more than once.

he' at it again

McHeath · September 21, 2009, 10:12:58 PM

I don't get out much.

Greg G. · September 22, 2009, 03:35:30 AM

999 would probably go to the German Coast Guard.

Dennis Markham · September 22, 2009, 09:14:03 AM

Brinybay, good one.

bwanna · September 22, 2009, 10:36:45 AM

LOL, briny

david@london · June 30, 2015, 06:39:45 PM

1st july is the 78th anniversary of the introduction of the first direct-dial emergency number.

.....extract from wikipedia :

The first emergency number system to be deployed anywhere in the world was in London on 1 July 1937 using the number 999, and this was later extended to cover the entire country. When 999 was dialled, a buzzer sounded and a red light flashed in the exchange to attract an operator's attention.

Southern California Telephone Co. began using 116 as an emergency line for Los Angeles, California in 1946. The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted U.S. emergency number.

CanadianGuy · July 01, 2015, 10:19:56 AM

Yay Winnipeg!

Signed,
A proud Winnipegger

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