The unfortunate lady in her fifties had her hair sucked up into a robot vacuum at her home in the city of Changwon, South Korea. On the day of the accident she turned on her robot vacuum as usual, and laid down flat on the floor to rest, leaving the robot to do its job.
The robot vacuum came around her relaxing on the floor, and suddenly sucked her hair into its nozzle. The vacuum stopped running one to two minutes after the sudden hair intake. The startled housewife called 119, Korea’s emergency telephone number.
Fortunately, firefighters and paramedics quickly arrived at the scene, and successfully disjoined her hair from the nozzle. The housewife suffered only minor injuries. The problematic robot vacuum had a nozzle with a roller inside, which sweeps and vacuums floors. The Changwon Fire Service Headquarters presumed that the vacuum’s sensors identified the woman’s hair as dust.
5 comments:
I had no idea there were so many different emergency numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number
Blimey, I had no idea either!
I know it's different now, what with push-button phones, but what I never understood was why the British emergency number was 999 back in the days of circular-dial phones, when that obviously took the longest amount of time to dial.
I'd assumed that it was deliberate in that it would be the number least likely to have been dialled accidentally. If you picked 9, you had to go through and so could mis-dial 1-8 so you had to successfully dial 9 three times in a row. 111 on the other hand you could dial by sequentially cocking up dialling any of 2-0 three times in a row.
That's true.
It still wasted what could have been valuable seconds though.
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