Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Facebook, Girls, Trapped, australia, 911 | Themes: The Internet, Software, Smartphones, Networking, Digital Entertainment, 3GSM
Two trapped young girls in Australia contact Facebook instead of the police.
If your head is on fire and you're starting to resemble Ghost Rider, who do you call? 911? Apparently, two young South Australian girls didn't have that same kind of mindset once they found themselves trapped in a storm water drain. Rather, the 10- and 12-year old girls from Adelaide, Australia--somewhere in a drain located on Honeypot Road--decided to update their Facebook pages instead of dialing 000 (their 911 equivalent, apparently).
The girls became lost on Sunday night and revised their Facebook status relaying their location from a mobile phone in Adelaide's southern suburbs. Luckily for the girls, a friend was online at the same time, and reported their whereabouts to the local police and fire department. The recent issue has now raised concerns for Glenn Benham of the Metropolitan Fire Service.
"It is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls," he told ABC News. "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."
According to a recent report, using Facebook actually improves the end-user's "working memory." However, replacing 911 with the social website's toolset isn't the best idea in any emergency situation.
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I thought using facebook makes you smarter.
....this is sad/pathetic on SO many levels....
I want to see the status update lol.
Name is stuck in storm drain about to die. Comment back
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Right after you guys post an article saying Facebook makes people intelligent, too. Oh the irony.
That's so Darwinian (excuse the geography).
That's how young middle school age girls are these days... tards and slaves to social networks.
OMG..., I'm going Twitter this news to my Facebook...
And this years Darwin award goes to.............
facepalm @ society
Was it really that hard to google this? Sorry, but you make yourself look really lazy by saying "apparently", as if you couldn't bother to take five seconds to check if it was true or not. Your biased xbox articles don't help your image either. Please step up your journalism, Mr. Parrish.
....this is sad/pathetic on SO many levels....
*wishes myspace, facebook, and twitter had never caught on with children*
Was it really that hard to google this? Sorry, but you make yourself look really lazy by saying "apparently", as if you couldn't bother to take five seconds to check if it was true or not. Your biased xbox articles don't help your image either. Please step up your journalism, Mr. Parrish.
I was thinking the same thing.
Oh, and as for the article, that truly is pathetic. Could you imagine if they had gotten into a car accident, and decided to update their facebook that the other passengers in the vehicle were in critical condition and needed help instead of calling 911? What is wrong with society today?
I always knew there wer an awful lot of mentally deficient people on this planet. This is just another example.
rofl dbzpic1
Too bad we don't let natural selection do its job any more....
lol!
They're friend should have left those girls down there and let nature sort itself out. Honestly, this is one of the number one contenders for the Darwin award this year.
I thought using facebook makes you smarter.
Maybe they haven't used Facebook enough yet? Or maybe they lack the common sense to have any benefits in the beginning...
And then on the other end of the spectrum you have idiots dialing 911 because Burger King ran out of french fries (look it up if you somehow missed the news... it's as saddening as this one).
was there a typhoon? A storm drain is not a "well" and killed you on the way down..obviously they had their nerve and were not frightened by the situation..I don't believe any of you were there?
Stupid teens nowadays....first kids loving mac's now this? i have nothing else to say.....
exept this....
and this....
ok im done....
AHAHAHA MADE U READ
I have no doubt in my mind these two girls were hoping for more feedback on their comment. Popularity at what cost?
I want to know how many of their friends thought it was a prank at first. Honestly though, how many people update their status with "I'm dying to get out of class right now." I would have been one of those friends who posted something like, "Dude, me too. I've been trapped in this storm drain called life too long..."
im gonna put this as my status
Sorry to say, but I think their friend who happened to be online just circumvented natural selection because people as stupid as that don't deserve to live in order to breed more stupidity.
I live in Adelaide, and this is level of intelligence I have to deal with in this god-forsaken city EVERYDAY!
I don't the condition in Australia, but is there any possibility that those girls (12 an 10 years old) do not know that they can call 000 through their mobile phones ? Or are they simply do not know the 000 even exist ?
May be 000 has to put more ads than facebook
I don't the condition in Australia, but is there any possibility that those girls (12 an 10 years old) do not know that they can call 000 through their mobile phones ? Or are they simply do not know the 000 even exist ?May be 000 has to put more ads than facebook
You are taught what 000 is in kindergarten here, if not before by your parents. Also you can call 000 from a mobile even if there is no sim card.
That brings me to the parents... I would ask what they were doing, but then I remembered that Honeypot Rd is in a real dero part of Adelaide, and as such the dad had probably run off (to the pub) and mum was down the shop getting smokes and didn't even realize 2 of her 7 kids were gone.
apparently.. first thing kids learn these days, how to get on facebook, before learning phone numbers for emergencies
I'm OK with them updating their facebook page instead of calling for help. If they died it would be a bonus, makes the world a slightly better place and removes one tard from the POS that is facebook
Im sorry but this is so f**ked up in so many ways. IF they were in more danger and had less time they would have died cause they THOUGHT of emailing facebook instead of calling the police to run and help them? Are we serious? I feel sorry for kids nowdays with education and parents that allow their kids to act stupid.ACTUALLY the factors of leading to ther kids think and act that way are the stupid ones. Not the poor kids cause they dont know better than thye allow them to learn. Pathetic and messed up.Shame