This reminds me of a depressing episode with a friend of mine, who had to help a panicked woman get into her car after the batteries in her remote died. She apparently didn’t realize that the ignition key — attached to the same keychain as the remote — could also open the door.
The article doesn’t mention whether the girls’ IQs are greater than their combined ages, but I have my doubts. Using a cell phone to make an actual phone call… what a novel concept!
Some of my contacts live in the Facebook app, necessitating me to open it for dialing people’s numbers for whom I have their profile information and not have their name and address inputed into my address book, this could have been the source of the dull kiddie’s problem dialing a number. The Palm Pre, with it’s integrated Facebook/Google/whatever/local-address-book contacts was designed to get rid of this tangle of multiple contact lists on the modern cellphone.
Sorry, I don’t buy it. You don’t need to consult FaceBook to dial 911 (or whatever the Australian version of the emergency number is), and it’s not likely that you need it to call your parents either.
Well, that’s the only rational explanation I could come up with, besides “those kids are dumb!” which might be the real explanation. 😉