Facebook the New 911
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 10, 2009 09:23 JST
- Tags: Australia, Bizarre, Facebook, Internet, Keitai, Schoolgirls, Sites
Police have expressed concern after a pair of young girls trapped down a dangerous storm drain used their phones to update their Facebook profiles rather than call for assistance.
The girls, aged 10 and 12, became lost down a storm drain in the Australian city of Adelaide. Just why they were inspecting the city’s protection against flash floods is not made clear.
Realising their predicament, they quickly updated their Facebook profiles to let friends know they were currently stuck down a storm drain, using their fully functional mobile phones.
Eventually someone noticed their update (or at least took it seriously), and called 000 (911) in their stead, and the fire department was soon on its way to extricate them.
The local fire department politely skirts round the issue of their decision making prowess in selecting Facebook over the emergency services:
“It is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls. If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway.”
The girls were rescued without injury.
A professor at the Queensland University of Technology also verbosely dances around the issue:
“For these kids, by the sounds of it, being on Facebook is just such a pervasive part of their lives that it seems the first line of response if they need to communicate a message to others.
I guess for these people the natural way to send a message out to their friends and others is via Facebook, unfortunately in this case the message was that they were stuck in a stormwater drain.”
Via the Telegraph.
Facebook seems to have narrowly averted its first fatalities, though sadly Twitter has not been so lucky…
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Sitting on your ass, saving people everyday.
too bad they didn't meet the fate they so richly deserve and rid the genepool of thier obviously defects........ and yes i really really mean that
It's called natural selection.
I mean most people who use Facebook deserve to die just on GP but this is ridiculous.
what about those of us who roam around SC?
If I'm ever stuck in a storm drain, I sure as hell am not posting about it on Sankaku Complex.
Maybe I would - for the lulz of it.
Way too ridiculous... =_=;;
It could've been as simple as them not knowing the emergency number...
That would be even more sad.
Young teenagers might not know the emergency number indeed (although it's quite sad if they don't), but if it's something as simple as 000... give me a break, I would think they'd better be off dead too.
"It could've been as simple as them not knowing the emergency number..."
"aged 10 and 12"
If they didn't know the emergency number at their age then they deserved to die or at least become my loli sex slaves.
Help!!!I`m stuck in a sewer and its flooding...THIS IS NOT A JOKE PLEASE HELP!
Who care about anon anyway, have fun dieing :P
As sxephill put it, the person that called 000 for them thwarted Darwin's plan
'Cause as we all know, 10-year-olds deserve to die when they screw up a little bit.
That'll teach 'em!
Damn right.
It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're that utterly retarded, you should die, just like half the inbred twats in the South of the US.
exactly, they should do the world a favor and take themselves out of the gene pool. And I'm NOT being sarcastic.
No, you're being a retard.
are you one of these facebook users?
Holy... yes, they were retarded for doing something so stupid... but death is a little much don't ya think?
Yes, just let us rape then and rough 'em up a bit; the trauma will stop them going outside to be stupid.
@anon 13:03
Quite a coldblooded thing to say don't you think?
No, seriously, I agree, fuck the dumb kids who think of facebook before '000'. If they're seriously that stupid, or, to be nice, that... facebook obsessed, to hell with them, we don't need their genes.
Sorry Exitium, you're expecting HUMANITY and REASON on Sankaku Complex? You strike me as hopelessly naive.
Thing is, people these days use their phones for so many different functions that they probably forget that they ARE actually PHONES.
man too bad they did not die after that post was discovered they could have won a Darwin award
Phones no longer are PHONES anymore, eh???
To anon 18:00
This is not 4chan so u may find some humanity and reasons ; O Just be patient = D
@Anonymous 13:11
Remember that a person's mentality is based on nature (genetics) AND nurture (how/what they were taught, or not taught).
The kids' genetics are likely okay, the problem probably is that their parents raised them to not think clearly -- in other words, to be stupid.
In which case, that's probably how those kids will raise their own children.
This bad cycle should be stopped.
Thus, for the good of the world, they should die. (I'm not saying anyone should kill them, I'm just saying that from a global perspective, their deaths would improve the world situation.)
the cycle of stupidity will not end. Think of it, in an emergency, some pre-teen girls texted on their facebook. How long were they down there? no one knows for sure right?
So now, without incident, our future kids associate resolving danger and emergencies by immediately telling everyone else about it.
I agree that the stupid, inbred hicks that would rather tweet, text and update as if their lives depended on it, deserve whatever they get. Sure, death is sad but it opens peoples eyes to issues around the world and hopefully, some one might do some thing about it.
Apparently only hicks text and use Facebook and Twitter, and they deserve to die for it.
Stupid arguments FTW!
no matter where u are, u can dial any emergency number u know, and it will direct you to the correct one.
It's you guys who are retarded, not those girls. What they did wasn't very thoughtful but they're only kids! I doubt you anons were so intelligent when you were ~11 years old. Every kid does some stupid things from time to time. Saying that they should die is cruel and i don't thing they deserve such fate - they will probably learn from the incident and next time they're in danger they will do the right thing.
If anybody is at fault it's their parents for not teching these girls common sense. But it doesn't mean they will act stupid forever!
Unfortunately, intelligence is not transmitted genetically. Imagine what the world would look like if it was...
by the way you spelled "their" wrong and used the word "obviously" in the wrong context
just thought i should mention it
Maybe they had something like an iPOD touch. It has no phone capabilities, but you can go on facebook.
really...how many persons in the world actually had ipod touch but no cellphone?? and moreover, will you EVER find wifi connection in the storm drain?
do the math dude.
That would be me
U're a fucked up idiot man.........
natural selection at work people
Idiot lolis. Fuck them and leave them there...
lolz facebook ftl
FUCK Facebook in the Face. Myspace and Twitter too.
+1
The smartest person. Fuck all that crap
NICE!
But what if you catch something
Someone who is sane for once. I never saw the point of these retarded sites.
You sir do not have enough lolis in your friend list.
@hyperknuckles
mafia wars? I just happened to be stupid enough to play it. hahaha
that's what my facebook is for.
Kids these days... they don't think much do they.
No I don't. =)
Thats the only logical explanation.
The girls, they are idiots, most facebook addict kids are.
Even if they didn't know the 000 they could still call anyone else unless they didn't consider themselves to be in trouble while being lost in a fucking drain and thought it would be a cool thing to say in facebook.
But its ok if they are cute, were the lolis cute?
Imagine them as Miu and Ana from Ichigo Marshmallow, deciding they were lost so they had better let Nobue know, and she then calls the fire department for them.
This is what is technically termed "ari."
They're aiming more for attention than to actually save themselves from danger.
That's why people post on those types of sites, there attention whores.
Social darwinism at its finest