999 Not working

[anonymoususer]

People asked to call 101 and 11 instead

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-06-25/999-calls-to-n...

https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-asks-people-...

[Randy Winkman]

I don't think that joke works in 2023. Should it ever have worked?

[sunbeam alpine]

Randy Winkman said:

I don't think that joke works in 2023. Should it ever have worked?

Seems to be reported in too many places to be a joke?

[colin79666]

BT have apparently implemented their backup system and calls getting connected again now.


Telephone operators, 1952
Seattle Municipal Archives
, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

[bitchstewie]

100% real.

https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/16728903919...

[ScotHill]

Apparently the middle 9 is still working from home and was out in the garden filling its pond with a hosepipe.

[Randy Winkman]

sunbeam alpine said:

Randy Winkman said:

I don't think that joke works in 2023. Should it ever have worked?

Seems to be reported in too many places to be a joke?

When I made it, my post was number 3 but the "joke" post has since been deleted. At least I made things easier for the moderators by not quoting the joke, even though it looks a bit confusing now.

[Randy Winkman]

bhstewie said:

100% real.

https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/16728903919...

Russian hacking? Were the problems at airports a month or two ago due to hacking? Perhaps we'll never know?

[croyde]

Really does feel like everything is just breaking in this country.

[anonymoususer]

croyde said:

Really does feel like everything is just breaking in this country.

I genuinely don't know if it has happened before. I have not googled it.
From memory I can't ever remember an outage but there may well have been at some point.
But I think the sentiment in your post is bob on.

[sunbeam alpine]

Randy Winkman said:

sunbeam alpine said:

Randy Winkman said:

I don't think that joke works in 2023. Should it ever have worked?

Seems to be reported in too many places to be a joke?

When I made it, my post was number 3 but the "joke" post has since been deleted. At least I made things easier for the moderators by not quoting the joke, even though it looks a bit confusing now.

My apologies

Fully agrees with Croyde's post...

[anonymoususer]

sunbeam alpine said:

Randy Winkman said:

sunbeam alpine said:

Randy Winkman said:

I don't think that joke works in 2023. Should it ever have worked?

Seems to be reported in too many places to be a joke?

When I made it, my post was number 3 but the "joke" post has since been deleted. At least I made things easier for the moderators by not quoting the joke, even though it looks a bit confusing now.

My apologies

Fully agrees with Croyde's post...

Ah just understanding this now and wondering why bhie was seemingly verifying my post
Yes there was a post after mine that had an old joke in it which has since been removed

I think the outage is over and some back up system is now in place

[scrw.]

Interesting, a mate is working on a phone upgrade at one of the forces and they lost 999 last week, seems it may not have been the work they were doing at initially thought.

[Digger]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66012340

[Grumps.]

So, whats the joke?

[sunbeam alpine]

Grumps. said:

So, whats the joke?

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?

I only risked posting the first half...

[markbigears]

It made me chuckle this morning

[Randy Winkman]

sunbeam alpine said:

My apologies

No problem. I'm glad it went but it was confusing.