IMPORTANT PETITION: Why Dialing 911 From a Hotel Room Is an Important Issue || HotelChatter
A few months ago, we talked about how hotel phones seemed unnecessary as most everyone has cell phones these days. But the story behind this Change.org petition has us seeing the hotel phone in a whole new light.
According to the petition, Kari Renee Hunt was staying in a motel with her three children when her estranged husband barged in, ambushed her while she was in the restroom and killed her. During the struggle, her 9-year-old tried to call 911 but was repeatedly thwarted by the hotel’s “Dial 9” function which requires uses to dial a 9 to get an outside line. While Kari’s daughter knew how to call 911, she didn’t understand that she needed to dial 9 in the motel room.
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