This is not political and has nothing to do with the President
The internet brings unique challenges. How do you react after witnessing a crime remotely? Perhaps in another country?
It can be complicated to call emergency services in another part of the world and be taken seriously. A famous name probably makes it even harder to convince them it’s not a hoax.
I’d like to think that my reaction would be the same at 18 or 19. But honestly, I can’t be totally sure. I was pretty immature in college and minded my own business. Stayed in my own lane unless it was absolutely needed to interfere in a friend’s personal business.
Today, I would call for damn sure. Even if it pisses off my friend for interfering.
It’s called a welfare-check if it perceived to be medical.
@dropzone called the sheriff’s office in my county. They called my DIL. Who got to me in a timely manner. He had sensed from my text messages I was having a low glucose event. He knew the signs because his wife was diabetic. It was serendipity that he could tell from a few messages. But he did. And I didn’t die.
Now, reporting a crime remotely is different. This may be a thing that will happen more and more with cell phones, face time talking and persons being in constant contact, electronically.
Barron has Secret Service escorts with him at all times. Perhaps he was advised by them how to handle this properly so that the UK 911 would take him seriously in a prompt manner.
No, if you mouse over the “999” text in your post it doesn’t turn the cursor into a vertical I-bar like it does for any other kind of text. You also can’t select it for quoting. Even the “wink” emoji can be selected.
Funny enough, the “999” works fine in the message I just quoted (which is how I was able to quote it). It’s some weird Discourse thing. I even did a test quote of your entire post and the text doesn’t show up weird there; there is no hidden formatting or anything. It’s just strange. Clearly nothing you did.
