JEFF: ALL BECAUSE OF TWO
TRANSPOSED DIGITS.
RANDY PAIGE IS LIVE IN LANCASTER
WITH THE DETAILS.
REPORTER: IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE.
IT APPEARS TO BE SOME KIND OF
PRACTICAL JOKE BUT INSTEAD IT
APPEARS TO BE A SIMPLE MISTAKE.
WHEN EMILY LOVELL AND HER
FRIENDS DECIDED TO SEE WHAT
HAPPENED -- WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF
THEY CALL THE SUICIDE HOTLINE
NUMBER IS UP ON THE BACK OF
THEIR SCHOOL I.D. THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENED.
HEY THERE HOT STUFF.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUR CALL.
PARKER YOU HEARD RIGHT TO THE
NUMBER CONNECTED THEM TO A SEX
LINE.
THE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
HOTLINE.
SOMEONE GENERALLY NEEDS HELP
LIKE THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HEAR
THAT FROM WHO THEY THOUGHT WAS
GOOD TO HELP THEM.
EMILY TOLD HER MOM ABOUT THE
CALL LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
OF COURSE I DIDN'T INSTANTLY
BELIEVE HER.
I PICKED UP MY PHONE AND CALLED
IT AND SURE ENOUGH IT WAS A SEX
HOTLINE.
REPORTER: IT WAS TOO LATE TO
CALL THE SCHOOL SO SHE POSTED
ABOUT IT ON FACEBOOK AND GOT
HUNDREDS OF RESPONSES.
THE SCHOOL ISSUED A NEWS RELEASE
WHICH SAYS IN PART LATE
YESTERDAY WE WERE MADE AWARE
THAT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT
I.D. CARDS HAVE A LONG PHONE
NUMBER LISTED FOR THE SUICIDE
HOTLINE.
THE PHONE NUMBERS HAVE TO DIGITS
TRANSPOSED AND THIS IS A MISTAKE
TO THE MEMBER LIST ON THE CARD
IS ACTUALLY A SEX LINE.
EMILY'S REACTION TO ALL OF THIS?
THEY SHOULD FACT CHECK THAT KIND
OF THING.
REPORTER: WOULD HE SAY TO THOSE
PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT THE STORY AND
SAY IT'S HUMOROUS?
IF SOMEONE NEEDED HELP AND
THEY CALLED THAT NUMBER I DON'T
KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.
THEY HAVE THAT NUMBER FOR A
REASON AND THE FACT THAT THEY
CALL IT AND GET THIS THEY WOULD
HANG UP OBVIOUSLY BUT THEN WHAT
WOULD THEY DO?
REPORTER: MICHELLE BOWERS
LANCASTER SUPERINTENDENT IS
TAKING THIS VERY SERIOUSLY SHE
SAID IT'S A SIMPLE MISTAKE.
SHE WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
