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posted at 640am on friday march 27, 2004....

last night, new york city's emergency 911
system went out of order for two hours.

that meant there could be no calls for help
to police, fire or ambulances.

according to city authorities the problem,
was created by sloppy maintenance done by
verizon, the local telephone company.

thus, the entire city was put into serious
danger by a telephone company that is cited
over and over again as one of the worst in the
united states.

the 911 outage did not affect the use of the
city's pay phones since most of them do not 
work anyway.

verizon is currently outsourcing many of
its jobs to foreign lands.

the two hour delay in repairing the problem
was probably caused by the fact that verizon
didn't have personnel in new york city who
could fix the problem.