911 EMERGENCY: BIG MAC ATTACK

Did you hear about the 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times looking for McDonald's.

OK, so maybe she didn't ask for a hamburger all 300 times she called from her suburban Chicago apartment, but authorities tracked her down by offering a delivery from the fast-food chain.

It seems the kid was playing with a deactivated cell phone and used it to call dispatchers, sometimes as often as 20 times a shift. Under federal law, deactivated cell phones still must be able to access 911, and many will contact an emergency call center if the user holds down the nine key.

Dispatchers heard the child's voice but could only track the phone's signal to her apartment complex. So to pinpoint her, they asked her what she wanted. She said McDonald's and gave them her address.

Police arrived, without the food, and mom took away the cell phone.


Harsh punishment. Police should have taken away mom's too until she taught her child that a phone, activated or not, is not a toy.

I guess I'd better retrieve my old one from the grandkids' toy box. There are so many other great things in the house besides a cell phone that children can play with anyway.

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