PD: Faulty Phone Blamed for Three 911 Misdials in Same Day

Technology simplifies a lot of things in life, but then there's days when it makes life a bit more complicated.

Police reached out to a Port Washington resident at 4:50 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a 911 call from his phone, according to a police report. The 25-year-old man advised that it must have been a pocket dial from his new phone.

At 7:34 p.m. that same day, the 25-year-old again was contacted by police after an open line 911-call. The man said there was no emergency, the report said, and police warned him of potential citations because this was his second accidental 911 call in the last 24 hours.

But this phone was determined to report an emergency.

Finally, at 11:42 p.m. that day, police again received an open line 911 call from the man's phone, the police report said. The man said this was the third time it had happened, and he was afraid there was a defect with his new phone and that he'd be returning it.

There was never any emergency.