Everyone knows that 911 is just for emergencies. Well almost! Recently, some Los Angeles County residents called the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to complain how Facebook was down for a few hours.
To combat the influx of calls, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sergeant, Sgt. Burton Brink, aka @LASDBrink, tweeted:
"#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!"
And, it seems more like people are using 911 as a customer complaint hotline rather than to seek emergency assistance.
Turns out, nearly 70% of calls to 911 this year have been non-emergency related, even one instance where a man was calling about not receiving cheese on his hamburger.
Read more:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/ne...book-outage-911/
