Showing posts with label City Information. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City Information. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

City Stuff, 411 on the 1-1'

I was looking over my water bill and I saw this insert with the "Drought Busters" and I read the rule that reads "YOU CANNOT SERVE WATER TO CUSTOMERS IN EATING ESTABLISHMENTS, UNLESS REQUESTED."
Man, it's that bad?
I looked online and found the same thing online HERE.
I thought, what's the penalty?
I found THIS on KNBC's website.
Man can you imagine someone in jail talking to a former restaurant's owner? "What are you in for?" to which he replies, "Serving water."
YIKE!

I am glad I read that pamphlet too because now I know about 3-1-1.
You probably know about 9-1-1 for emergency services, and if you don't, go back under your rock. If you don't know about 911, you are ignant and need to don't deserve a phone anyway as Shirley Q. Liquor might say.
I have seen some of these similar services in other cities like Chicago and New York.
I didn't know Los Angeles had a City Services. It's a toll free call that you can find out non-emergency information and phone numbers.
You can use it for things like potholes in front of your house, elected officials phone numbers, water leaks, etc.
4-1-1 is usually your provider's information, like the "Yellow Pages" and there is a charge for that. (I know Sprint's just went up and is stupid expensive.)

Of course, this made me wonder about the other 1-1's. I looked up the other 1-1's and what they might be and if I could get one.
I learned about the N11 codes or the North American Numbering Plan.
Of course, this applies to wired phones or landlines and not so much cell phone. SOME of the numbers work on cell phones.
The website of the official organization is www.nanpa.com.

N11 CODE DESCRIPTION
211 Community Information and Referral Services
311 Non-Emergency Police and Other Governmental Services
411 Local Directory Assistance
511 Traffic and Transportation Information (US); Provision of Weather and Traveller Information Services (Canada)
611 Repair Service
711 Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)
811 Access to One Call Services to Protect Pipeline and Utilities from Excavation Damage (US); Non-Urgent Health Teletriage Services (Canada)
911 Emergency

Having all of these makes 10,000 other phone numbers available for use in the US. Fierce.