"hor-bra".

Oh, dear. All I can think of is the kind of pointy thing Madonna used to wear.

Here's something I didn't know: By law, a deactivated cellphone must still be able to call 911.

Apparently a mother who let her 4 year old daughter keep a deactivated cellphone didn't know this either. So guess what - her daughter used it to call 911. Not just once, but almost 300 times.

July 05,2007 | CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. -- Authorities tracked down a 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times last month by offering to deliver McDonald's to her suburban Chicago apartment.

Unbeknownst to her mother, the girl used a deactivated cell phone to call dispatchers 287 times in June -- sometimes as often as 20 times a shift.

Dispatchers heard the child's voice but could only track the phone's signal to the apartment complex.

So authorities used a ruse to pinpoint her.

"We asked (the caller) what she wanted. She said she wanted McDonald's," said Steve Cordes, executive director of QuadCom's emergency center, which covers Carpentersville.

"We talked with her and we convinced her if she told us where she lives, we would bring her McDonald's," he said. "She finally gave us her address. So we sent the police over -- with no McDonald's."

After police arrived, the girl's mother took away the phone, Cordes said.

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No McDonald's??? How is that kid ever supposed to trust authority figures?

This past weekend we watched a kid toy with the ticket machines at the cinema after her mother had run the credit card through. We were kinda hoping she'd hit the "No, really, I do want all 297 tickets" button before her mother noticed, but no such luck.

No McDonald's??? How is that kid ever supposed to trust authority figures?

Yeah, she'll end up being a damn-cynical kindergartener....

Now I want McDonalds

t /easily suggestible

Do not call 911, Sue!

I'm so yawny.

Do not call 911, Sue!

I don't have a cellphone. Not even a deactivated one.

I'm so yawny.

Try breathing through your nose. Or applying an ice pack to your head. Both cool the brain down and the brain being warm is what seems to cause yawning...this is what I learned in the Sun paper this morning.

What I learned this afternoon is lemon tartlette from Bonaparte Breads is sweet and tart and deeelicious!

Here's something I didn't know: By law, a deactivated cellphone must still be able to call 911.

Apparently, this is true for regular phone lines too. We don't have an active landline, but my housemate has a phone hooked up to our jack just to call 911 in an emergency.

...this is what I learned in the Sun paper this morning.

Hahaha! I read that same article.