Connecticut residents proved just how important television is to them on Sunday night when a cable outage prompted several 911 calls.
According to Fairfield County police, the calls started coming in when Cablevision began experiencing technical difficulties across southwestern Connecticut, according to the New York Post.
“Hi, I’m — I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on,” one disgruntled woman explained to the 911 operator. ” We have no TV.”
The woman even admitted that she knew that 911 was for life-threatening emergencies, but she just wanted to find out what was going on.
“Is this a life-threatening time?” she asked.
Fairfield police posted a statement on their Facebook page instructing upset TV-addicts to direct their complaints to Cablevision. The post has since been taken down but not before The Blaze caught it.
“We are receiving numerous 911 calls regarding the Cablevision outage,” the post said. “This is neither an emergency or a police related concern.”
But even state Sen. Bob Duff (D-Norwalk, Darien) wasn’t left out of the cable conundrum. He apparently received hundreds of Facebook and Twitter inquiries as to what in the world happened to the television.
“It disrupts your day and it gets very frustrating,” Duff told the Associated Press.
Cable was eventually restored to Connecticut residents Sunday night. According to the AP, the outage happened because Cablevision experienced a commercial power failure in their Norwalk facility.
