I was just reading today's newspaper (The Star) and in the Views section, Mariam Mokhtar has expressed her views in regards to making prank calls.
In this case, a "lonely" girl from Johor Bahru was caught by the authority for making 5,000 prank calls to the Johor Fire and Rescue Services department.
The girl's action is absolutely intolerable and certainly, to my mind, the girl needs some attention and deserve to be punished (even though she has been reported as having mental illness).
Mariam has succinctly put her thoughts in the following manners:
"The Fire and Rescue service is not a counselling or ‘lonely hearts’ department assisting sad and solitary souls or people who are depressed and wanting companionship."
Therefore, i call upon those who like to make prank calls to stop this immoral action. Your act will only make things worse and will benefits no one.
Lastly, in Mariam's final words:
"Hoax and nuisance calls can tie valuable emergency telephone lines and put lives at risk. They also tie up the time of the operators who will not be able to attend to genuine emergency calls as they are attending to the hoax caller. This type of calls puts a strain on the resources."
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