BS: 911 Emergency Call Number

Subject: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: Blowzabella
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:56 PM

Hi - I;m in UK and therefore possibly not fully au fait with this but I wondered if anybody had previously raised the consideration that 9/11 had been specifically chosen as a date for the Twin Towers targetting because it corresponded to the USA's emergency call number. I asked my husband and the coincidence hd never occurred to him - hs it been commented on? I'd be extraordinarily surprised if I was the only one to have spotted this.

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 06:11 PM

I'm sure you're not the first to notice this. However, I doubt that it's anything more than an odd coincidence. What would be the point? Is an act of terrorism somehow more terrifying because it occurs on a certain date rather than some other date?

FYI, the date is pronounced "nine eleven" but the phone number is pronounced "nine one one."

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: robomatic
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 06:53 PM

It's been mentioned elsewhere that a longtime Jewish fast day is Tisha B'Av which commemmorates several disasters in different years of Jewish history but they are associated with the 9th day of the month of Av, which is the 11th month, hence 11/9.

'though I doubt this was much of a factor to the terrorists.

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: mack/misophist
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 09:38 PM

To answer the question: any number of people speculated about it at the time but no one knew for sure. It's still that way as far as I have heard.

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 04:00 PM

I doubt it although people do refer to that date here (in the US) as nine-one-one, which is the emergency #, rather than nine-eleven, which is the normal way of saying that date; the reason I doubt it is that only Americans put the month first - everywhere else the date is eleven-nine. I doubt that bin Laden is that sublte.

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 04:29 PM

And the Madrid train bombs were 911 days after 9/11.

There are several sites that retrospectively try to find significant patterns in what in my mind are coincidences.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: GUEST,Aldershot ex Gunner
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:08 AM

We always knew television personalites were up their own **** but this has to take the cake.

Former glamour girl Linda Lusardi dialled 999 when heavy traffic threatened to make her late for a pantomime performance of Snow White, police said.

When Lusardi's car hit jams on the M25 this weekend she feared missing the opening curtain of the show in which she is starring as the Wicked Queen.

However, instead of waiting patiently, she called the emergency services asking for permission to drive down the hard shoulder and undertake the queue of stationary vehicles.

The incident took place on Saturday as the 50-year-old former Page 3 model headed to the Swan Theatre, High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire for the matinee performance.

A spokeswoman from Hertfordshire Police said: "She called us at 1.30pm on Saturday asking for permission to use the hard shoulder. Obviously, we declined. 999 is for emergencies only.

"There hadn't been an accident, it was just heavy traffic.

"If someone was very ill or pregnant expecting a child we might be able to facilitate something like that - in an emergency - but clearly getting to a pantomime doesn't constitute that."

Richard smartass Linford, from Qdos Entertainment managing Lusardi's pantomime production, told the Daily Mail: "Miss Lusardi has no comment to make. But I can say everybody's human and we don't all run like robots."

Hertfordshire Police used Lusardi's actions to remind the public what the emergency services number is there for.

A spokesman said: "Being late for work is not a reason to call 999, contact the police or use emergency measures. Use of the hard shoulder is restricted for emergency service vehicles only."

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: artbrooks
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 12:13 PM

people do refer to that date here (in the US) as nine-one-one?? I've never heard that usage myself...the date has always been referred to, at least in my hearing and by me, as "nine-eleven". I'd personally say that any connection is purely coincidental.

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 03:23 PM

"Richard smartass Linford, from Qdos Entertainment managing Lusardi's pantomime production, told the Daily Mail: "Miss Lusardi has no comment to make. But I can say everybody's human and we don't all run like robots."

Is there some reason why "smartass" is not capitalized?

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 06:42 PM

misuse of Emergency number occurs here, too People call Australian emergency no. Triple-0 for 'chicken tips' "With as many as 5000 triple-zero calls per week and as many as 95 per cent of these calls for non-emergency reasons, police communications say they unnecessarily test the capacity to respond to genuine emergencies."

Fake calls to 000 also rise sharply in school holiday time!

We also have folks who call 911, even tho they've only ever heard that number on TV or movies. 911 has a message saying to call 000. Dunno whether they also use the UK emergency number.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:52 PM

It depends who planned that operation and how hung up they are on using macabre symbolism as to whether they picked the date deliberately to send a spooky message of some sort.

It could be mere coincidence. It could be deliberate intent. I doubt we'll ever know, but we'll hear lots of interesting theories. I've heard some of them already...

Subject: RE: BS: 911 Emergency Call Number
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:00 PM

John McCain's older brother did the same thing when he got stuck in traffic at the height of the presidential election! youtube coverage of it