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| A number of Los Angeles residents . . . actually dialed 911 – the emergency helpline number used in the United States to report crimes, medical emergencies, fires, and the occasional cat-in-tree crisis – after [Facebook] crashed for nearly 30 minutes at 9:30 pm IST Thursday. --Business Standard (India), August 2, 2014 |
Let's see a line-up
of the users who called 911
or the Sheriff’s Department
when Facebook crashed
for just one hour.
A Sheriff twitting,
This is not a law enforcement problem!
though Facebook lives were ravaged,
swept asunder.
Let each step forward,
explaining to the world
what they had lost.
Peg Quinn, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee is a mural painter and teaches art at a private elementary school in Santa Barbara, California.