Posted on 09/07/2009 11:00:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) in Adelaide says it is worrying that two girls lost in a stormwater drain raised the alert on a social networking site rather than ringing triple-0.
The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide's southern suburbs on Sunday night.
Glenn Benham from the MFS says it was fortunate a young friend was online at the time and was able to call for help for them.
"It is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls," he said.
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
Is ‘000’ the Australian version of ‘911’?
Yep.
Maybe not, as a lot of the posters there appear to be afraid of gurls....
‘honeypot’ road?.....reminds me of something else that word was the common reference for a long time ago. hell, maybe still is!
“I’m surprised they didn’t Tweet it.”
“The water’s up to my chin now...”
It’s a slippery road to the honeypot.
“Hurry up ! I am being Kopechned !”
usually ended up costing me a few ‘clams’ to get there to...
Probably not a coincidence.
Yes. It is hardly worth a bother, though. With slow, palsied fingers, all you get is an angry Operator three times.
settle down young man.
“The water’s up to my chin now, and I’m eating a ham sandwich...”
I caught that too.
Just WHAT kind of parents let their 10 and 12 year old girls go to Honeypot Road?
Honestly!
Personally, I would have posted a vanity thread here about guns, the Calvary would have shown up to rescue me.
How would they get those huge crosses into the storm drains?
It’s a response.
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