this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pigup 10 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Easier to remember in an emergency than 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

[–] over_clox -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Dial 08 on your phone and hit call. I dare you.

"Emergency services, what's your emergency?"

All the emergency numbers from basically everywhere on Earth are coded into your phone's firmware, since they're shipped all over the planet plus people move around a lot.

They do this because people staying in a different country likely don't know the local emergency numbers, so the phone should automatically map any emergency number to the local emergency number.

https://www.adducation.info/general-knowledge-travel-and-transport/emergency-numbers/

https://brilliantmaps.com/emergency-telephone-numbers/

I can't find any current article listing 08 as an emergency number, but I know this for a fact from the USA from accidental pocket dialing from an old dumb cell phone back around 2015 with an actual keypad.

But yeah, the way modern cell phones work these days, you should be able to reach your local emergency services from basically any of those numbers.

[–] FelixCress 3 points 4 hours ago

Hopefully you will never go abroad:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers

And yes, I tried. Just now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Do they not shorten emergency numbers to like 3 digits ?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

69 is the postal code/région number for Lyon, a large city in France. There are a staggering number of things named thing69 blissfully unaware of the joke they're making, it's great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

That makes for hilarious pics like this lol

[–] ramenshaman 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Ambulance Soins & sante 69.

Duh.