The emergency responders in a small Ohio town are at their wit’s end with a
toddler who has called 911 repeatedly this week, giggling into the phone and then
hanging up.
The calls are coming from a deactivated cell phone, implying
that parents gave the child an old phone as a plaything. So far, officials in Middletown, Ohio
have been loath to donate the time and resources to seeking out the miscreant
caller (or, more accurately, the caller’s miscreant parents), but if the calls
continue, they will have no choice but to track the calls and perhaps charge
the parents with telecommunication harassment.
As long as there is any battery power left at all in an old cell phone, the phone can
still call 911. While this is certainly of no use to a two-year-old, old phones
are in great demand at domestic violence shelters, senior centers, and amongst
soldiers. A quick Google search can tell you where to donate phones in your
area.
It's rather disconcerting that the parents of this phone-happy tot not only did not think to remove the battery from the phone, but also have failed to notice that their child has been tying up the town's emergency resources for an entire week.
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