[Wonderful Labs] CALLING DR. WONDER

[Wonderful Labs]

Wonderfriend,

	Why did the phone companies pick “9-1-1” as opposed to something else? 
Is there a “better” choice?  What would you have done?

Yours,
The Non-Emergency Response Drones
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Dear Studio Car 54,

	Which reminds me:  did I ever tell you the tale of how the Japanese
government rushed to invent the cordless phone in order to halt a
terrible string of stranglings in Kyoto and Osaka?  I honestly didn't
think the noodles were that bad, but when Mister Dark begins a crusade
of Violent Poetic Justice he does insist on the sonnet over than the haiku.

	People sometimes ask how a lovable genius like myself can possibly live
with such ill-tempered and well-armed monsters, and I say, "Officers,
you'll have to come back with a warrant."

	
	
	You know, in England they dial "999" for emergencies, which makes sense
and is officially endorsed by Wonderful Labs.  In America they had to
make it more complicated so you wouldn't wake up in the middle of the
night at the sound of a burglar, grab for the phone, accidentally pick
up your 2nd Amendment rights, dial yourself three loud expressions of
freedom through the head, then sue the phone company.  

	By having to move your finger, you'll maybe get one shot off, realize
what's going on, and be able to return fire.


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