Good To Know
Apparently 911 can be dial from a cell phone that is NOT connected to cell phone service. What I mean is that you can call it from an old phone that no longer has a number attached to it.
Unfortunately my family needed to learn this the hard way. My sister gave my son her old cell phone and charger. They’ve been disconnected for nearly a year but he uses the phone to take pictures and listen to music she uploaded onto it, etc. This morning he comes rushing into my room, crying and frantic.
He tells me that he and his brothers were playing “Cops” and he was the one in need of assistance so he dialed 911 on his cell phone that shouldn’t work and taadaa it did. He was connected through to emergency services. So, of course, he did what any kid in his situation would do… Hung up and panicked. I’m not sure how long he was in his room before he decided it might be worth telling me about.
So then I called the Sheriff’s Department, which was not yet open for business. So I had to call 911 and explain the situation to them as I didn’t want them thinking they had an actual emergency and trying frantically to find the source of the call and what not. The woman thanked me for calling in and explaining which was a relief because I wasn’t really sure of the procedure for something of this nature.
Anyway, be aware that ANY phone connected or not can actually dial 911. Good to know, right?
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