Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook

[wraggster]

Two teenage girls (aged 10 and 12) found themselves trapped/lost in a stormwater drain in Adelaide, South Australia. The interesting point of this article that makes it Slashdot worthy, is that although the teenage girls had mobile phones, instead of calling for help using 000 (Australia's 911 number), they decided to notify people through Facebook. My guess is it was something along the lines of 'Jane Doe is like totally trapped in a stormwater drain, really need help, OMG!'. Luckily a young friend of the girls was online at the time and was able to call the proper authorities.

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/1421220/Trapped-Girls-Call-For-Help-On-Facebook

[VampDude]

They should have called the emergency services, instead've Facebook... Because on Facebook, it's not 100% known if the person is being genuine with their wall posts when they ask for help. 80% of the time it's boredom for attention, but at least they are safe and got the help they needed.

[Triv1um]

Kids these days....

Jesus christ.

[Shrygue]

Oh my God that's just stupid to seek emergency assistance via Facebook instead of dialing 000. What were they thinking at the time?

[mike_jmg]

LOL, that's just nuts