911 = police?

[TITAN59650]

It is definitely 911 all across Canada, you friend either skipped school to much or should move out from under that rock. I'm not sure how you would miss this if he/she grew up in Canada as it is posted on all police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, phone booths and payphones as well as in the first page of every phone book.

I'm also pretty certain that 911 is standard across all of the United States as well.

P.S. has your friend managed to avoid seeing a police car his entire life? even if he lives in the country he should have at least seen and RCMP at some point.

 

[Scarim Coral]

When I admit when I was little I did used to think it was 911 (I said I was little) and yes I blame the US shows like Cop for that. Anyway in the UK it's 999 for the emergency.

 

[yeel]

In Sweden, it's 112.
However! If you call 911, you'll be redirected to the emergency center anyways.

Exactly same here in Finland. The emergency number is 112, but if you dial 911 it directs it back to 112. Incidentally, my birthday is 11.02.

What a coincidence, its 112 here in Denmark aswell.

Hmm, I guess it's a Scandinavian-ish thing then. I betcha Norway has 112 as well.

That's correct and so does the EU. I'm surprised people from the EU don't know this.

Wikipedia: 112 (pronounced one-one-two) is the principal emergency telephone in the European Union (EU), its candidates for accession, members of the EEA agreement, as well as several other countries in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_number)

 

[Wuggy]

In Sweden, it's 112.
However! If you call 911, you'll be redirected to the emergency center anyways.

Exactly same here in Finland. The emergency number is 112, but if you dial 911 it directs it back to 112. Incidentally, my birthday is 11.02.

What a coincidence, its 112 here in Denmark aswell.

Hmm, I guess it's a Scandinavian-ish thing then. I betcha Norway has 112 as well.

That's correct and so does the EU. I'm surprised people from the EU don't know this.

Wikipedia: 112 (pronounced one-one-two) is the principal emergency telephone in the European Union (EU), its candidates for accession, members of the EEA agreement, as well as several other countries in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_number)

Oh, that's interesting. I haven't had really need to know the emergency numbers of other countries, particularly in the EU since I haven't visited a lot of EU countries other than Sweden. So don't be surprised, even though it's the stereotype that US people are oblivious to common knowledge facts, it applies to the rest of us as well in a lot of cases.

Now that you mention it though, I do think I've heard that it's an EU thing before. I just didn't remember that.

 

[Arduras]

Here in the Great Aussieland we have:
911 - general
112 - any network
132500 - Flood Rescue

and probably a dozen bloody others (its confusing because all these phonecalls goto the exact same call centre anyway)

 

[Yopaz]

In Sweden, it's 112.
However! If you call 911, you'll be redirected to the emergency center anyways.

Exactly same here in Finland. The emergency number is 112, but if you dial 911 it directs it back to 112. Incidentally, my birthday is 11.02.

What a coincidence, its 112 here in Denmark aswell.

Hmm, I guess it's a Scandinavian-ish thing then. I betcha Norway has 112 as well.

Yup, 112 here too.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Here in the Great Aussieland we have:
911 - general
112 - any network
132500 - Flood Rescue

and probably a dozen bloody others (its confusing because all these phonecalls goto the exact same call centre anyway)

...

Que hordes of angry bogans.

 

[Cazza]

Australia's emergency number is triple zero (000). It's so simple to remeber. Though any three numbers are.

Here in the Great Aussieland we have:
911 - general
112 - any network
132500 - Flood Rescue

and probably a dozen bloody others (its confusing because all these phonecalls goto the exact same call centre anyway)

Where did you get 911 from?

I think I read somewhere it was all local and a wide range of other countires emergency numbers were added just incase some poor Brit or American got in trouble and called theirs. But the number your meant to ring is 000.

 

[Stu35]

Of course 911 is not the emergency number outside the US. In Britain, for instance, it is 0118-999-881-999-119-7253.

Internet Hi-Five for you my friend.


No I've never thought, or met anyone else(to my knowledge), who thought that our emergency number was 911. Such people deserve the brutal hacking to death they receive for failing to call the police.


It's the only way to weed out the undesirables.

 

[Batou667]

I have a friend who works for St John's Ambulance and he told me some interesting things about emergency numbers in the UK.

Firstly, you can use either 999 or 112 to get emergency services - and if I recall correctly I think he said 112 is actually faster, as the service automatically logs your location or bypasses the first operator or something like that [citation needed].

The other thing is that dialling 911 in the UK will automatically redirect to 999. Thanks for brainwashing our children, America!

 

[k-ossuburb]

Well, I'm in England. We have 999, because accidentally calling emergency services by leaning on your phone (btw, you can call emergency services without unlocking the keys) is so funny.

Even funnier is that it's been the same number since we had dial phones, and 9 is only the second slowest number to put in. 'OH GOD THERE'S A MURDERER AT MY DOOR' 9... *chuckachuckachuckachucka* 9... *chuckachuckachuckachucka* 9... *murderer smashes phone with axe*

You mean something like this?

 

[Hashime]

In Ontario you dial 911, I am not sure about the rest of canada, but it is 911 for sure here.

 

[DanielDeFig]

Of course 911 is not the emergency number outside the US. In Britain, for instance, it is 0118-999-881-999-119-7253.

How is that an EMERGENCY number? No-one would remember it, especially not in an emergency situation. Aren't all national emergency numbers 3-digt?

OT:
Despite growing up outside of my country of nationality, we got enough "kids material" (comics, cartoons, movies, ec.), that me and my sibling quickly learned Sweden's emergency number:112 (I'm guessing our parents might've helped too).

Interestingly enough I can't remember the emergency numbers for any of the countries I grew up in. I'm almost certain I learned them before cell phones were common, but once they were our mom just gave us one each, along with her and our Dad's number (also the Embassy's. They worked there). No need to remember any numbers, just select "Mom", and then "call".

 

[cefm]

So you're saying 911 is a joke in Canadian towns too?

 

[Frostbite3789]

Of course 911 is not the emergency number outside the US. In Britain, for instance, it is 0118-999-881-999-119-7253.

The fact that an IT Crowd reference was the first response makes my day.

You win lots of internets.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Of course 911 is not the emergency number outside the US. In Britain, for instance, it is 0118-999-881-999-119-7253.

you can have a cookie for that reference.

OT: technically, that's right twice. UK's is 999.

 

[NZpablo]

111 in NZ but the thing is 911 still works because stupid people kept calling it thinking tv shows were right