112 Vs 911
 

Excellent. The first victim of confusion just fell - I was so lost I forgot to include a poll. See?

I don't have anything against 1-1-2. But isn't it easy to misdial it? A kid could pick up the phone and dial it mistakenly.

We had (still have)

92 - police
93 - firemen
94 - ambulance
95 - get the current time http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

I do support standardization and unification, but reinventing the wheel is http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ons/icon13.gif

Originally posted by DanS
I don't have anything against 1-1-2. But isn't it easy to misdial it? A kid could pick up the phone and dial it mistakenly. This seems to have been an issue with the British 9-9-9 (it wasn't an issue with Finnish the 0-0-0 because Finnish kids are smarter) and it is the reason why the accepted code isn't 1-1-1 but 1-1-2. There is a rationale on the wiki page I linked to. They did think about which number to take, but it didn't occur to them that US already has a perfectly good number chosen which many Europeans already know.

I always thought 999 was underrated.

999 artist bio

666 should get the fire department.

The advantage with 112 is that it's easier to use cuz you only need to able to count from one to two, while counting up to nine is much more difficult esp. in emergency (=stress) situations.

FACT

BTW this evening on the news I saw that the EU is going to penalize Bulgaria for not managing to implement 112 nationwide in time. We were supposed to have operational 112 number for the country at the beginning of 2007 but today the number is operational in Sofia only.
We used to have 160, 150, 166 for police, medical emergencies, and fire department.

Isn't 112 like from the early nineties? And it works in the US too, so eh I don't see why VetLegion is complaining about it? What do you want to keep the number you have now? It makes little difference whether the EU would have used the US one or got its own. It does make sense for all EU countries to have the same one, cause of the open borders and all.

http://ciudaddelplata.com/servicios/911.gif

It used to be 101

BTW What's this about unfalmiarity?

Originally posted by Barnabas
The Buenos Aires Police now uses 911 because everybody knows 911 from the movies, but no one knew the one we used here Yes, as I said, US media PWN all. Might as well take advantage of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1
An example of this is Uruguay, where the emergency number was traditionally 999, but was changed to 911 in 2001 after many cases where people dialed 911 instead of 999 during an emergency. This was due to the popularity in the country of US television programs and movies which routinely mention 911 as the emergency number to dial.

Originally posted by Barnabas
It used to be 101 That's what India uses (100, 101, 102 depending on whether you want teh police, fire dept., or an ambulance).

Used to have 01, 02, 03 and 04 for firefighters, police, ambulance and gas respectively. Switched to 112 9 or 10 years ago, although the old numbers may still be operational. They were some time ago.

This is a clear case of where people should just set up multiple numbers. Ideally, you'd move towards the same number for the world (and 911 is probably better because of its popularity right now), but gee, it's no technological challenge to make 112 and 911 both work. Setting crucial systems up differently just for the sake of being different is http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ons/icon13.gif

BTW People are neglecting my point. Countries wouldn't have accepted 911 just cause its rational, they would have kept their own numbers. Stupid, but it would have happened.

So Germany now even forced the use of nazicommie numbers on to Europe http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/angry.gif

911= Freedom and Democracy http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/nod.gif

Originally posted by Snotty
999 *****es

also I think 911 and 112 work here as well

it sucks either way when when locked keypad on my mobile ends up typing out 999 when its in my pocket 999 http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

Flip-top ancient mobiles. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

This is why we need to preserve the right to bear arms and other assault rifles, so that we don't need the middlemen with obscure phone numbers to protect our kids, elderly, and business transactions.

we have 100 for police, 166 for ambulance, 199 for fire dept.
surprisingly there is no service using 133 http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif