What is the ideal emergency number?
There
are different ones for different countries, such as 112 for New Zealand
and 911 for the USA. But these are all fairly arbitrary numbers.
911 really is no better than 713.
It seems to me that the ideal emergency number would be something like 000, which is what Oz uses.
You couldn't use 0 by itself, as that would be too trigger-prone.
00 is a possibility, and probably a strong one.
Using
four zeroes is another, but we're starting to get into the realm of an
arbitrary number of zeroes now, and arbitrariness is what I was trying
to avoid.
Having a string of zeroes of some length seems to be the only reasonable solution, but is this just a case of culture bias, from living in Australia with such a system?
Aaah but '000' is prone to children/toddlers calling it accidentally.... whereas a 911 or 713 has to be much less likely for those calls?
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