Instablogs - Mobile - Trapped girls call for help on Facebook rather than calling Emergency number

The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) in Adelaide says it is worrying that two girls lost in a stormwater drain raised the alert on a social networking site rather than ringing triple-0.

The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Sunday night.

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Reek

They are children. Okay, well, most children are idiots, but still.

V. Pisev

Idiots? Not at all-see my commenting below.

Michael

Well, 000 is the emergency number in Australia, so yes, I would think (and certainly hope) that everyone does know to call authorities in this situation.

V. Pisev

I can’t imagine local police completed with ethnic Russians of Australia or even the Ukraine substantially, at the top level especially. Such imported Russia-law-enforcement force would much less be trustworthy than even a recent one is, to many locals surely.

And alarming as much friends as possible to many secures a positive prompt official responding not in Russia only, as in addition from this publication is understood.

Anaeline T

Well, girls know who to help then certainly.

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