Comments for "4 year old calls 911 for math help" Video at VideoSift.com

By legacy0100

legacy0100 (http://www.videosift.com/member/legacy0100) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:40:27 -0700

THAT

IS

AWESOME!!!

By Woland

Woland (http://www.videosift.com/member/Woland) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:32:25 -0700

Upvote; I hope it wasn't fake.

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:06:47 -0700

Words fail me for the sheer greatness of that!!

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:45:20 -0700

I don't usually like Leno stuff, but that was pretty damn funny.

By HaricotVert

HaricotVert (http://www.videosift.com/member/HaricotVert) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:01:50 -0700

I didn't mean the POLICE!

By Quboid

Quboid (http://www.videosift.com/member/Quboid) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:42:38 -0700

Aww so cute. Of course two people died when their emergency calls weren't answered but aww, isn't it priceless.

</devil's advocate>

By phelixian

phelixian (http://www.videosift.com/member/phelixian) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:02:07 -0700

That was great! But what four year olds have subtraction "homework"?

By bhyphenlow

bhyphenlow (http://www.videosift.com/member/bhyphenlow) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:20:52 -0700

Poor kid-- he was just getting help in the best fashion he could. Props to the operator for being patient. Hope it was a slow night.

By omnithrope

omnithrope (http://omnithrope.videosift.com) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:53:38 -0700

Dag? Notice you didn't really have to see or hear Leno?

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:57:57 -0700

LOL!

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:13:18 -0700

Surprised to see the operator didn't go postal on the kid. I guess they're probably used to this kind of thing, and don't mind playing along for a bit if there aren't any other calls.

By Chaucer

Chaucer (http://www.videosift.com/member/Chaucer) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:56:17 -0700

"How old are you?"
"Four"
"FOUR?"

I was kind of surprised too. I dont think we started subtraction until first grade. Damn overachievers!

By Fletch

Fletch (http://fletch.videosift.com) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:53:50 -0700

That sounded fake to me.

By pragmatick

pragmatick (http://www.videosift.com/member/pragmatick) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:05:10 -0700

I would adopt that kid in an instant.

By entr0py

entr0py (http://www.videosift.com/member/entr0py) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:17:34 -0700

Very cute. Leno is always at his best when he doesn't have to write or deliver his material.

By sbchapm

sbchapm (http://www.videosift.com/member/sbchapm) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:26:19 -0700

Sorry. I missed the upvote button. Don't hate me; I like cute children. But the answer was 8. Duh.

By leeweek

leeweek (http://www.videosift.com/member/leeweek) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:32:06 -0700

no, the answer was 1 you heard the kid! i mean hes doing takeaways at age 4, hes a genius!

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:58:44 -0700

Slow night at emergency dispatch. That's my theory. A real dispatcher would probably be like, 'k, gotta go.'

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:06:35 -0700

so next time he has a problem and needs the police, what's he gonna do?

lol if his mom gets back one day to find the TV is gone and he's hiding under his bed crying

knowing women, mom will be like "WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE???????"

By IDK0029

IDK0029 (http://www.videosift.com/member/IDK0029) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:57:45 -0700

Back in my day we called the operator casue it was less numbers to push

By gorgonheap

gorgonheap (http://www.videosift.com/member/gorgonheap) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:30:07 -0700

Awww, how precious and all that other crap that goes along with it.

By Grimm

Grimm (http://www.videosift.com/member/Grimm) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:58:07 -0700

*1stTube

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By choggie

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By looris

looris (http://www.videosift.com/member/looris) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:44:39 -0800

die NBC die

By Arsenault185

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By Arsenault185

Arsenault185 (http://www.videosift.com/member/Arsenault185) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:22:42 -0800

Well Sifty, if you would bother to read the above comments, you wouldn't be sitting here trying to make me look stupid.

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By iwastheturkey

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By thepinky

thepinky (http://www.videosift.com/member/thepinky) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:53:45 -0700

Totally fake, although I wish it weren't. Kids don't do subtraction at 4 years old. And if they do, they wouldn't be left alone by their parents to do it. And if they had the kind of parent who taught their kid to do subtraction at age 4, the parent wouldn't have told them to call somebody if they needed help with it.

By 10444

10444 (http://www.videosift.com/member/10444) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:30:57 -0700

I could count, add and subtract a bit ( simple things, like 4+5 and 19-1 ) and was grasping reading and writing when I was four. I did it alone most of the time, because I myself wanted to. I would watch TV shows and learned from that.. I also knew to call 911 if something bad happened or someone was hurt or needed help badly.

This could just as likely be real. If it is, it's not the kid's fault that his parents didn't tell him their cellphone number as well. ( I knew my home phone by the time I was five. )

The child's mind doesn't work like an adult one, kk? Children and adults alike are diverse in all ways: height, hair color, race, development, intelligence, maturity, on and on. Stop sticking everything in a box, you're just making yourself miserable.

>> ^thepinky:
Totally fake, although I wish it weren't. Kids don't do subtraction at 4 years old. And if they do, they wouldn't be left alone by their parents to do it. And if they had the kind of parent who taught their kid to do subtraction at age 4, the parent wouldn't have told them to call somebody if they needed help with it.

By LittleRed

LittleRed (http://www.videosift.com/member/LittleRed) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:32:05 -0700

1) If he's only 4, he's not going to have homework of any kind, let alone math homework. See this article on national age for children entering kindergarten. Thirty-nine states will not allow your child into kindergarten unless they turn five less than a month and a half into the school year. The likelihood of math homework when the teacher is still trying to teach some kids how to count is slim to none. The Flagstaff school district suggests you teach your child to count to ten before s/he starts kindergarten. And that's only a suggestion. To most parents, reading and writing come before math, because math is easier to learn. That's why you'll see kids struggling to write their name before they know what 4+5 is. They certainly wouldn't be working with two-digit numbers like 16.

2) Even if everyone in this particular class knew how to count before the school year started, the units in kindergarten (at least the ones in my school) didn't have math specific homework. The closest thing I can think of is when we went through the money unit, and we had to make change with what we had. I think we had worksheets with little cutouts of coins and we had to glue or tape on the page the combination that equaled X amount as homework.

3) The concept of subtraction is taught long, long after addition has been mastered. The concept of adding negative numbers, or "take-aways" is usually a difficult one for kids to grasp. No four-year-old, unless they are in an advanced after-school tutoring program or homeschooled, is going to be doing subtraction homework.

4) A cell phone number would've been relatively useless in this case, as there is obviously someone else in the house. The dispatcher says something about "listen to your mom," and the kid on the phone doesn't correct him. If you've ever babysat a four-year-old, you know they love to correct the slightest mistakes. If it wasn't his mother, I'm sure he would've let everyone know.

And there's no need to be condescending just because you disagree. No one's miserable for calling "fake" on a video. Jeez. Calm down.

>> ^karkarlee:
I could count, add and subtract a bit ( simple things, like 4+5 and 19-1 ) and was grasping reading and writing when I was four. I did it alone most of the time, because I myself wanted to. I would watch TV shows and learned from that.. I also knew to call 911 if something bad happened or someone was hurt or needed help badly.

This could just as likely be real. If it is, it's not the kid's fault that his parents didn't tell him their cellphone number as well. ( I knew my home phone by the time I was five. )

The child's mind doesn't work like an adult one, kk? Children and adults alike are diverse in all ways: height, hair color, race, development, intelligence, maturity, on and on. Stop sticking everything in a box, you're just making yourself miserable.

By LittleRed

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