Unable to stand the inconvenience of the brief outage Facebook had on Friday, some users from Los Angeles took it to the police, reportedly making emergency calls to 911.
Last week, for a short time, Facebook was not accessible on Friday morning, during a widespread outage due to a ‘technical’ failure, affecting users in multiple countries, according to the Reuters.
While several countries suffered the outage, users from LA got impatient and called the cops, according to Sergeant Burton Brink who tweeted “#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don’t call us about it being down, we don’t know when FB will be back up!”
The tweet was followed by another tweet which confirmed that some users called the 911 to report the issue and that is why he sent the previous tweet to stop users from calling the police for non-urgent issues like this.
Following this, he replied to the second tweet stating that they were not 911 calls and that his local station received the calls which didn’t pass through the operator and hence there is no recorded evidence for them.
However, Captain Britta Steinbreener of the LA County Sheriff’s information bureau told the NBC News that her office was not notified of any 911 calls regarding Facebook being down and also that Brink was not on duty while the tweets were made.
She also said that Brink may nor may not have violated the policies of the department and that investigations are being carried out regarding this issue. It is believed that some people might have actually called the cops over #facebookdown as there have been some people who called the police for negligible issues in the past.
Notably, the Sheriff’s station at LA celebrated the 45th anniversary of Charles Manson’s arrest on Friday.
