Priorities First, Update Facebook Then Maybe Ring Emergency Services!

Biggins · 08-09-2009 4:18pm #1

Very much in the category of 'you couldn't make this up' comes the news that two girls trapped in a storm drain in South Australia chose to update their Facebook status to get help – rather than ringing the emergency services.
The South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service has expressed worry that the two girls – ages 12 and 10 – chose to turn to social networking rather than ringing triple zero, the Aussie equivalent of 999.
Apparently the two girls found themselves lost in a drain in a surburb of Adelaide.

Fortunate
Fireman Glenn Benham told ABC News it was fortunate that someone was online and able to call emergency services when he saw the update.
"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."

Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/trapped-kids-update-facebook-rather-than-ring-police-632661?src=rss

Pure stupidity!

dr.bollocko · 08-09-2009 4:20pm

And yet they still survived. Darwinism is just too soft these days.

CutzEr · 08-09-2009 4:23pm

Facepalm.

FearDark · 08-09-2009 4:24pm

"Two girls, 12 and 10 trapped alone in a drain."

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RHunce · 08-09-2009 4:26pm

its called using your resources :pac:

Ruu_Old · 08-09-2009 4:28pm

They just didn't use the new number!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU

half of my posts are surely threads regarding this video, brilliant!

Naos · 08-09-2009 4:31pm

We're trapped in a drain, LOL!

People who update their facebook status like this should be shot.

I'm on my fourth spoon of cornflakes, I'm mad, LOL!

Red Hand · 08-09-2009 4:31pm

If anybody is stuck in a lift, be sure to pm one of the boards.ie moderators...they'll know what to do!

dar83 · 08-09-2009 4:32pm

FearDark wrote: »

"Two girls, 12 and 10 trapped alone in a house."

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Genuine lulz there. Good work sir!

FearDark · 08-09-2009 4:58pm

Pfft status updates are soo last week, farmville ftw.

brummytom · 08-09-2009 5:05pm

FearDark wrote: »

Pfft status updates are soo last week, farmville ftw.

Dude!
You're a man obsessed.

God I hate people who update their status all the time
"Joe is watchin tv
Joe just watched tv
Joe is having a shít
Joe is going to go to bed
Joe says goodnight everyone!! "

Fúck off Joe

Banter Joe · 08-09-2009 5:12pm

I can't believe somebody actually thought their facebook status wasn't a pisstake.

Also, what's Proposed Cheese?

brummytom · 08-09-2009 5:14pm

Banter Joe wrote: »

I can't believe somebody actually thought their facebook status wasn't a pisstake.

Also, what's Proposed Cheese?

It's like processed but even more shít

Ghost Train · 08-09-2009 5:18pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ

Agent Smith · 08-09-2009 6:00pm

brummytom wrote: »

Dude!
You're a man obsessed.

God I hate people who update their status all the time
"Joe is watchin tv
Joe just watched tv
Joe is having a shít
Joe is going to go to bed
Joe says goodnight everyone!! "

Fúck off Joe

How about you go fuck off.... :pac:

Priorities First, Update Facebook Then Maybe Ring Emergency Services!

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