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Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook
definate writes "Two teenage girls (aged 10 and 12) found themselves trapped/lost in a stormwater drain in Adelaide, South Australia. The interesting point of this article that makes it Slashdot worthy, is that although the teenage girls had mobile phones, instead of calling for help using 000 (Australia's 911 number), they decided to notify people through Facebook. My guess is it was something along the lines of 'Jane Doe is like totally trapped in a stormwater drain, really need help, OMG!'. Luckily a young friend of the girls was online at the time and was able to call the proper authorities."
The girls were eligible for a Darwin Award and you took it away from them!
Everyone knows that if you need to call for rescue, you use twitter.
http://twitter.com/OLDTELEGRAM
They might have gotten 112,076 "fans of teenage girls trapped in wells."
Darwin at work, foiled by luck.
That's nothing. I was trapped in a lift once. I had to wait 15 years for mobile phones to be developed and deployed before I could call for help.
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That's nothing. I fell into an experimental cryogenics pod and was frozen for 1000 years, and had to wait for time travel to be developed, so that I could travel back in time and tell Matt Groening my life story, so he could make it into a popular cartoon series thus preventing a spacial anomaly that would have destroyed the alpha quadrant.
"Two teenage girls (aged 10 and 12)..."
Teenagers just keep getting younger and younger these days.
They're naught-teen and twain-teen, respectively. Where is the mystery here, gentlemen?
Bow-ties are cool.
Much like the famous "ballsack conundrum" thread on fark... I'm stuck to my chair. I'm so very scared. Help. (Details In thread) "Need help soonish..."
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Everyone knows that if you need to call for rescue, you use twitter.
"HELP ME! I am stuck and in real trouble and hurt real bad! I think my leg is broken, and I am losing a lot of blood. You can find me at"
Bow-ties are cool.
What were they doing in a storm water drain....?
Searching for the Ninja Turtles, probably.
Bow-ties are cool.
Moss: Subject: Fire. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal.
[deletes text, starts again] Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
[sigh of relief]
Girls mature faster than boys. :-)
Ouch! The truth hurts!
I would prank call 911 (Canada's 911 number)
I thought Canada's 911 number was 911-A
Overheard in a subway car...
Friend A: "My god, I can't believe I'm turning 20 tomorrow."
Friend B: "Yeah, man, double digits, wow."
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Want a balloon Georgie? They all float down here!
ten and twelve do not end in "teen"
To the contrary, the tens through twelves do end in the teens.
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Yeah, no crap.
Maybe they just couldn't muster the willpower to say "tween".
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My stepmother was alone in the house and fell, breaking her tailbone. She managed to painfully drag herself across the room to the phone, which she used not to call 911, but to call a friend of hers from church. When she got that person's machine, she left a message asking her friend to pray for her. She then lay on the floor moaning until my brother happened to stop by the house and discover her several hours later. I never found out whether or not her friend got the message and prayed for her.
--Posted anonymously because the stupid burns.
WTF? 000 is Australia's EMERGENCY number. Would you also say "they drive on the left side of the road (Australia's right)"? In China thay use chopsticks (Chinese knives and forks)?".
There is a point at which explaining by Yankie analogies just makes it more confusing. Try to realise that everyone in the world does not speak English, play baseball, use Fahrenheit.... I'm sure most of the readers here actually can cope with that, and you won't bamboozle the ones who AREN'T American either.
...apparently everyone on the Internet can hear you when you scream.
Oh, and everyone will eventually find those naked pics too.
911 was probably chosen so it can't (easily) be accidentally triggered by shorts/grounding on the cable back in the day when everywhere was connected via string and yogurt cups.
Little girls are deceptive, manipulative, and just a tad bit sexual (remember being 12 and completely naive, and having a 10 year old asking to see your thing? But you were still terrified of girls when you were 15? Yeah...). If by "Mature" you mean "Turn into a glowing pile of pure, radioactive evil," I must concur.
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Oh, tell me about it. I remember the days of Beverly Hills 90210 when some teenagers were 30!
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Well, you have to be 13 to have a Facebook account. They have Facebook accounts. So they must be 13, and hence teenagers, even if they're only 10 and 12. Seems perfectly clear to me.
I like to be modded up as much as the next person, but Insightful? Jeez, I was trying for Funny.
He even points out that not everyone speaks English as a first language. And what do you do? Criticize him for improper English spelling.
You obviously understood what he was trying to say, so why so defensive?
But in Australia a ten year old is "teen yea's auld"
Must be new math kids.
Base 20 is the new base 10.
A notification has been sent to "911 Emergency Response". The user must accept your friend request before they will appear in your friends list.
[meanwhile, the victim dies because "911 Emergency Response" is actually "sleeping in today and not going to class cuz last night was so crazy omfg".]
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