A good idea: Emergency numbers pre-installed in mobiles

Cianos

Was walking down my road and I got a feint smell of gas, then thought of that emergency phone number your supposed to ring if you do smell gas, but didnt because I dont have the number. Then I thought it would make a lot of sense if all emergency numbers like the gas number were pre-installed on everyones mobile by law, so everyone has the numbers readily available.

What think ye of this?

KTRIC

Good idea, I really cant see it happening. But if it did , I would say that it would cost at least €2.5 billion to implement and would take 2 years.

aidan_walsh

No thanks. I don't want phone numbers preinstalled. If I take over my SIM to a new phone, they'll be there twice.

Also, who gets put on and who doesn't? Why?
What if the number was to change? Or a second number added? Should both be put on?

Le Rack

2 years if we're lucky!
Just have them programmed on the phone so if you do switch your sim they'll be on the phone not the sim...
It's a good idea, I have the local garda station on speed dial cuz I was home alone one day there a while ago and got a call telling me this guy and his mates were at the top of the road waiting for me to rape and kill me....fun times!

whiskeyman

If it's really important, ring the emergency services (or local station as Le Rack mentioned).
If not so, ring directory enquires.

Anything else could get out of hand.... students demanding local pizza and beer delivery places get put on new phones...

Dooom

whiskeyman wrote:

beer delivery places..

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HST

K-TRIC wrote:

Good idea, I really cant see it happening. But if it did , I would say that it would cost at least €2.5 billion to implement and would take 2 years.

...And then just before it is all to be implemented it would be canceled because of a minister misplacing the money. It's just typical Irish politics.

Karoma

Directory Enquiries, tbh.

Why don't they warn about using mobile phones around gas leaks like they do in petrol stations (Not that there's any risk at all in either...hmmm *toddles off to Conspiracy Theories)

projectmayhem

Karoma wrote:

Directory Enquiries, tbh.

Why don't they warn about using mobile phones around gas leaks like they do in petrol stations (Not that there's any risk at all in either...hmmm *toddles off to Conspiracy Theories)

didn't that show on discovery prove that wrong? myth busters or whatever...

Dooom

Dunno about mythbusters, but I know they did it on brainiac with a caravan full of petrol and mobile phones - nothing happened.

whyulittle

Spike wrote:

Dunno about mythbusters, but I know they did it on brainiac with a caravan full of petrol and mobile phones - nothing happened.

Yeah but then they blew it up with a static charge they built up from his nylon clothes! That was a good one!

morlan

112 - the Irish and EU emergency number, 999 - UK, 911 - US, and 08 - Italy (I think) are already preinstalled in all mobile phones sold in Ireland. They even override the keylock. Try it yourself.

Fajitas!

As soon as I get a phone, I put in the local Gardai, the traffic corps, a doctor, and anything else I might have. It's just come from experiences over the years. Even if they're not put in automatically, it's a pretty good idea to put them in yourself for convenience sake.

optiplexgx270

morlan wrote:

112 - the Irish and EU emergency number, 999 - UK, 911 - US, and 08 - Italy (I think) are already preinstalled in all mobile phones sold in Ireland. They even override the keylock. Try it yourself.

only 112 overrides the nokia keylocks afaik.

Sam Vimes

nope, 999 and 911 aswell, just checked

morlan

OK, it overrides the keylock on my Sony Ericsson, Panasonic and Trium phones.

electrode

Spike wrote:

Dunno about mythbusters, but I know they did it on brainiac with a caravan full of petrol and mobile phones - nothing happened.

I've seen both of these and they never answered the phones(which is really annoying when your watching it)!!! so it may be true...

And i saw a phone spark in CSI:Miami which lit the guy on fire so it MUST be true!:D

optiplexgx270

Commander Vimes wrote:

nope, 999 and 911 aswell, just checked

just tried it there and its true 112,999,911 work last time i tried this was way back on a 6110 and back then only 112 worked for me they must have made it generic with the tri-band phones etc.. maybe??

Hobbes

Cianos wrote:

Was walking down my road and I got a feint smell of gas, then thought of that emergency phone number your supposed to ring if you do smell gas,

I thought you weren't supposed to use any electrical items if you smell gas?