Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
The intention wasn't to crank call anyone. I didn't think it would divert to 000 and expected either a recording telling me to dial 000 or for the 'invalid number' message since that is a US Emergency number not Australian. I just dialed it out of a whim and as soon as the 000 recording begun, I hanged up realizing it had diverted.

Do they still teach kids to dial 000 at school in an emergency or it's that now deemed as politically incorrect or some other crap?
Yeah, it's still pretty much drummed into kids to call 000 - it would have to be a pretty ignorant one to call 911 - maybe out of the stress of the moment it could happen? I would assume it's probably American tourists calling 911 here that's the biggest reason for the redirection.