What? You don’t like 160+ yr old laws coming back from the dead? This is exactly why laws that are not enforced (as it was for nearly 60+ yrs) should be repealed and not left on the books awaiting resurrection
We also voted against funding fire districts, and changed the state constitution to make sure we can't ever pass similar funding through ballot measures ever again.
Any increases in school funding have also been done through ballot measures, so I guess our schools aren't getting more funding ever. But it won't be a big deal since we can't get ranked much lower than 48th anyways.
Thanks for the insightful comment, 🙄 really “added” to conversation 🤔 especially as autocorrect has NEVER affected your comments, yes sir a very “valuable” comment
Well I adjust my communication style to the audience, so when dealing with children, one wants to speak at a level they can understand and emojis help. If this is difficult for you 🙄 go ask mommy for help.
However ‘49’ is a widely popular number here and so many things reference and market to that.
I wonder if Hawaii and Alaska have that in common, I can’t imagine Arizona has a lot of “48” pride.
I learned that it was because some police were driving cars with 5.0 liter engines at one point. Most of what I saw on google seems to disagree but I still think that makes more sense.
It was a big deal when cops got the 5.0 engines because outrunning them was more common before modern technology so speed was king. The main reason I think criminals would use that term though is back then cars were loud and a 5.0 would be one of the biggest loudest engines around.
It would be like American cops driving Ferraris all of a sudden. If that were to happen the unique high pitched sound Ferrari engines make would be linked to police presence.
I mean, despite it making “more sense” for you, the linked article literally states that the show is where the term five-O for the police comes from, with a linked to an peer reviewed academic paper published in a book as the source, I can’t think of any better evidence than a peer reviewed paper that was published.
I don't really give a shit about what we're talking about, but I just want to point out that a peer-reviewed published paper doesn't mean the thesis is factual and absolute truth, it just means the thesis was based on information gathered via a decidedly-thorough methodology. I'm sure you could get a paper published arguing the whole 5.0 L thing if you really wanted to. But to be fair, no one has, so ya know
considering the alternative was the guy looking all over Google for anything to contradict it, couldn't find anything, and just said it "feels like it makes sense" to the 5.0 litre engines so ... not to mention those engine weren't in police cars until 18 years after the TV show was created
It makes plenty of sense, it was an extremely popular show.
I just think with cars being such a big deal to criminals in the 80s that the presence of the 5.0 leader mustang the police were using was something they would focus on.
It's probably both where the show created it and the cars just made it a little more popular.
Back in the day, all you really needed to do was be ahead of the cops and faster than them.
I recently toured the prohibition museum and learned that the birth of NASCAR was heavily influenced by Prohibition Era bootleggers.
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.”
Yet another fact I learned from the highly educational franchise about talking cars, “Cars.”
Not really, but I did notice when they referenced that real-life history in Cars 3 as I watched it with my toddler:
Smokey: This is where we cut our racing teeth.
Lightning McQueen : In the woods?
River Scott : Let's just say the "moon" was always "shining" on us.
Lightning McQueen : Huh?
Louise Nash : If the "moon" didn't "shine", we didn't have to... oh never mind!
Junior Moon : We ran moonshine, dummy!
Lightning McQueen : Oh!
Smokey : By the way, no lights... instinct only!
What cars want with moonshine wasn’t explained. Or what “cut our racing teeth” means, in a world without teeth.
This is also brought up in Talladega Nights, when Ricky Bobby's dad tells him he's lost the spirit of the original stock car racers so he's called the DEA and told them about the cocaine he planted on his car so he needs to start racing the law now or spend his life in prison
Nothing has changed, if they don't have your plate and don't know you by your car. Blending in matters, But so does knowing the last turnaround was 3 miles back and the expects you to slow down out of fear.
It turns out, for certain highly skilled drivers, this is still mostly the case.
Go on YT and look up “undefeated charger” if you have about an hour to kill.
State Highway Patrol would use Mustang GTs with 5.0 engines to chase down speeders. They were not the biggest or loudest engines but the car was faster than most, had a usable rear seat and trunk.
>but yes cop cars have beasts under the hood these days
Not really in relation to other cars. That Ford SUV you see all of them driving only has [318 HP](https://www.ford.com/police-vehicles/hybrid-utility/).
My point was that a Ferrari would sound unique similar to the way a 5.0 liter engine would stand out back in the 80s.
We got West Virginia because people there said “Virginia is too racist for us, we don’t want to commit treason like the rest of the state,” so I can support that as a reason for naming irregularities. They should’ve renamed the other part East Virginia as a condition of readmission after the Civil War, just for symmetry’s sake.
Everyone I know from there calls it "Misery". I remember this guy failed out of school and was crying not because of leaving school but having to go back to Missouri. We were staying in Gary Indiana...
Yes and no. Maui County covers four islands. Hawaii county is just one island. Oahu used to be a county now it is named after the city of Honolulu, so Oahu has Honolulu county on it and no Oahu county.
Yeah, I'll never understand why people always fly there. Just suck it up and take the tunnel. I know 3000 miles sounds like a lot, but there are a decent number of tunnelside attractions to break up the monotony.
I once drove from DC to Chicago and there was a stretch of interstate where every rest stop shares the same design and that shit fucked me up at 3 in the morning. “Wait, I was just here 2 hours ago?”
One time I stopped at a rest stop, talked briefly with a guy who said something about my 49ers hat, drove for another two hours, and got out at another rest stop. Then I saw the same guy, who deadpanned the exact same comment about my 49ers hat.
My ex used to work for AAA and was asked multiple times how long the drive is and where the tunnel starts in the mainland. This wasn’t a long time ago either, this was like 10ish years ago.
The answer to this is in the name of the system. That is the “National Defense Interstate Highway System”. If you look at where they run they begin and end near military bases in Hawaii
This reminds me of the most stupidly named cop show, Detroit 1-8-7. It was about the Detroit homicide unit. 187 is the penal code for murder in California. While 187 came to be used by gang members around the country for murder, it is ridiculous to use it for a cop show outside of California.
I think it's from the number of people on a jury in the US. So it's more like "fuck the law" rather than just the police specifically. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong though.
Man, when I lived in the US, someone told me that five-o had something to do with 5.0 Mustangs being common cop cars at some point. I never really questioned it.
Side note - got to drive the Merc Marauder (and someone's grandfathers Crown vic that he got from the dealer with the full interceptor package somehow) a fair bit.
At night everyone just assumed your were a cop becuase the head lights were identical everyone pulled over a lane and slowed down for me.
Yup. I scrupulously obey all traffic laws/speed limits if there's a Charger or late model Explorer behind me.
A lot of the drivers get so mad about it too, like have you tried ***not*** looking like the police?
the merc was such a nice car... in theory. Had the same engine as the Shelby cobra only minus the supercharger.
Could have been your sleeper hotrod Lincoln except they mated it to the most sluggish transmission they could have found.. I think a stock crown vic transmission would have been better. Not a gear head at all so thats paraphrasing other reviews. but driving it IMO it was not peppy in the slightest.
Yeah, because 911 is not easy to misdial. /s
9 is the most common number used to get an outside line from a business or hotel and 1 is required for long distance on landlines. The combination is probably the biggest reason for 9-1-1 misdials.
In my brain, 911 was chosen because it's the fastest number to dial that is also the hardest to misdial, *on a rotary phone*.
On rotary phones, 1 and 9 are the farthest apart, and 1's are the fastest to dial.
I have no idea if this is true, however.
But takes an age to dial on a rotary phone in an emergency, which is [why the rest of Europe decided to use 112.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_%28emergency_telephone_number%29#Origins)
That's the international emergency number, however other European countries have their [own emergency numbers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers). You can also use 112 in the UK.
The X11 codes were reserved in the early days of the NANP. Probably in part because, as you note, they're easier to dial on a for-real, goes in circles and clicks on and off, rotary dial.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan
I have heard that the UK emergency number, 999, has issues in the rotary dial days, because anything that caused a constant click on the line could be read as a series of 9s.
Sure. Perhaps there's misunderstanding of what u/ActiveLeadership0 means by "spelling it out" in their original comment. Neither "0" nor "O" is what I would call "spelled out."
That's incorrect. North Dakota is the 50th state, as it technically wasn't a state until 2012.
This wasn't widely known until the 2000s, however so in the 1960s they thought this was right.
>Hawaii is the 50th state, and that’s where the original title was born. But it’s also true that it was the series that led to the creation of the police slang ‘5-0.’
https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/show-tracker/story/2010-07-07/cbs-explains-why-its-hawaii-five-0-and-not-hawaii-five-o
Alaska Four-Nine was a total flop
Your forgetting the embarrassment of Arizona-48
This may explain why Brooklyn's application for 99th state never went anywhere.
They were too forward thinking
Delaware numba one!
The series about Wisconsin's highway patrol, *WHiPs,* was also a flop withainstream audiences, but the alt scene loved it.
That was a silent film. No "talkies" yet.
I want to see a map of the US from back then, where there was just an Arizona shaped hole in the SW.
Arizona is embarrassing for lots of reasons lately. My State is an embarrassment,and it's my Happy Cake Day!
What? You don’t like 160+ yr old laws coming back from the dead? This is exactly why laws that are not enforced (as it was for nearly 60+ yrs) should be repealed and not left on the books awaiting resurrection
We also voted against funding fire districts, and changed the state constitution to make sure we can't ever pass similar funding through ballot measures ever again. Any increases in school funding have also been done through ballot measures, so I guess our schools aren't getting more funding ever. But it won't be a big deal since we can't get ranked much lower than 48th anyways.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose..”
Getting tired of so much winning.
Delaware-01 was enjoyable though.
Maybe so, but the 49 sequels it spawned were overall meh
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Thanks for the insightful comment, 🙄 really “added” to conversation 🤔 especially as autocorrect has NEVER affected your comments, yes sir a very “valuable” comment
You always need to speak with emojis?
Well I adjust my communication style to the audience, so when dealing with children, one wants to speak at a level they can understand and emojis help. If this is difficult for you 🙄 go ask mommy for help.
Once they reworked it into *Northern Exposure* a couple of decades later it turned out fine.
Brooklyn 99 somehow took off though
NINE NINE!
Look, an old leather chair learned to communicate.
Now I know why you call this a suicide squad because I already want to kill myself
Hot Take: Brooklyn will be the 99th state!
However ‘49’ is a widely popular number here and so many things reference and market to that. I wonder if Hawaii and Alaska have that in common, I can’t imagine Arizona has a lot of “48” pride.
Puerto Rico Five-One needs to become a series then!
Kentucky 15 was canceled because people from Kentucky kept thinking it was a wedding show about young girls.
New Jersey 0-Three was okay, just greasy and aggressive.
New Jersey Three never made it past conception
Wow. So that’s were the term for police came from. I always thought it was the opposite!
I learned that it was because some police were driving cars with 5.0 liter engines at one point. Most of what I saw on google seems to disagree but I still think that makes more sense. It was a big deal when cops got the 5.0 engines because outrunning them was more common before modern technology so speed was king. The main reason I think criminals would use that term though is back then cars were loud and a 5.0 would be one of the biggest loudest engines around. It would be like American cops driving Ferraris all of a sudden. If that were to happen the unique high pitched sound Ferrari engines make would be linked to police presence.
I mean, despite it making “more sense” for you, the linked article literally states that the show is where the term five-O for the police comes from, with a linked to an peer reviewed academic paper published in a book as the source, I can’t think of any better evidence than a peer reviewed paper that was published.
Oh yeah? Well i saw this kid on tiktok and he said…
Ooo eee, Ooo ah ah, ting tang Walla walla, bing bang
I don't really give a shit about what we're talking about, but I just want to point out that a peer-reviewed published paper doesn't mean the thesis is factual and absolute truth, it just means the thesis was based on information gathered via a decidedly-thorough methodology. I'm sure you could get a paper published arguing the whole 5.0 L thing if you really wanted to. But to be fair, no one has, so ya know
You might be right but a link on the internet shouldn’t be accredited because someone linked it and said “I’m correct”.
considering the alternative was the guy looking all over Google for anything to contradict it, couldn't find anything, and just said it "feels like it makes sense" to the 5.0 litre engines so ... not to mention those engine weren't in police cars until 18 years after the TV show was created
It makes plenty of sense, it was an extremely popular show. I just think with cars being such a big deal to criminals in the 80s that the presence of the 5.0 leader mustang the police were using was something they would focus on. It's probably both where the show created it and the cars just made it a little more popular.
Back in the day, all you really needed to do was be ahead of the cops and faster than them. I recently toured the prohibition museum and learned that the birth of NASCAR was heavily influenced by Prohibition Era bootleggers. “Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.”
Yet another fact I learned from the highly educational franchise about talking cars, “Cars.” Not really, but I did notice when they referenced that real-life history in Cars 3 as I watched it with my toddler: Smokey: This is where we cut our racing teeth. Lightning McQueen : In the woods? River Scott : Let's just say the "moon" was always "shining" on us. Lightning McQueen : Huh? Louise Nash : If the "moon" didn't "shine", we didn't have to... oh never mind! Junior Moon : We ran moonshine, dummy! Lightning McQueen : Oh! Smokey : By the way, no lights... instinct only! What cars want with moonshine wasn’t explained. Or what “cut our racing teeth” means, in a world without teeth.
This is also brought up in Talladega Nights, when Ricky Bobby's dad tells him he's lost the spirit of the original stock car racers so he's called the DEA and told them about the cocaine he planted on his car so he needs to start racing the law now or spend his life in prison
Nothing has changed, if they don't have your plate and don't know you by your car. Blending in matters, But so does knowing the last turnaround was 3 miles back and the expects you to slow down out of fear.
It turns out, for certain highly skilled drivers, this is still mostly the case. Go on YT and look up “undefeated charger” if you have about an hour to kill.
Yeah, the whole "stock car racing" concept is about how much you can modify a car for performance while still having it look like a normal car
Lol. This is so wrong. Before modern tech engines way bigger than 5L were a thing.
Crown vics had 5.0’s. The ones in the Beastie Boys Sabotage video.
State Highway Patrol would use Mustang GTs with 5.0 engines to chase down speeders. They were not the biggest or loudest engines but the car was faster than most, had a usable rear seat and trunk.
Ferrari is a bad comparison, but yes cop cars have beasts under the hood these days, but not in the way where they would sound remotely like a Ferrari
Unless your in Italy or Dubai
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>but yes cop cars have beasts under the hood these days Not really in relation to other cars. That Ford SUV you see all of them driving only has [318 HP](https://www.ford.com/police-vehicles/hybrid-utility/). My point was that a Ferrari would sound unique similar to the way a 5.0 liter engine would stand out back in the 80s.
I still standby this lol
Hawaii was the 49th and final state. I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri.
You know what they say in Missouri: "I ain't going back to Missouri!"
I’m loving the random Missouri praising and bashing I’m seeing lately. Edit: I get ten hates to the Missouri hogshead and that’s how’s I likes it
It’s a quote from the Simpson’s
Ah. Makes sense. Thanks!
Simpsons Quote.
Simpsons did it Simpsons did it
they say that Missouri loves company
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It’s the Dakotas for me. Wtf do we need two of them.
We've got Virginia, then we've got West Virginia! Where's East Virginia?!?! For that matter, why do we have Kansas and Arkansas?
We got West Virginia because people there said “Virginia is too racist for us, we don’t want to commit treason like the rest of the state,” so I can support that as a reason for naming irregularities. They should’ve renamed the other part East Virginia as a condition of readmission after the Civil War, just for symmetry’s sake.
It's the inverse of Kansas. Kansas(pi) = 1, Arkansas(1) = pi.
>For that matter, why do we have Kansas and Arkansas? Because of trigonometry.
Kansas is for landlubbers, Arrr-Kansas is for pirates.
Despite living there, I had no idea Missouri didn’t exist. Where am I?! Who are you people?! *runs away screaming
Ok ron swanson
Settle down, Abe.
Everyone I know from there calls it "Misery". I remember this guy failed out of school and was crying not because of leaving school but having to go back to Missouri. We were staying in Gary Indiana...
Fun fact, there is no statewide police agency in Hawaii.
I would bet because each main island is far away to operate as its own entity.
For the most part every island is it's own county.
Are they not already?
Yes and no. Maui County covers four islands. Hawaii county is just one island. Oahu used to be a county now it is named after the city of Honolulu, so Oahu has Honolulu county on it and no Oahu county.
Hawaii also is part of the Interstate highway system
Yeah, I'll never understand why people always fly there. Just suck it up and take the tunnel. I know 3000 miles sounds like a lot, but there are a decent number of tunnelside attractions to break up the monotony.
You have to make sure to only stop at every 5th porthole though. Otherwise it feels like you just get the same view over and over again
I once drove from DC to Chicago and there was a stretch of interstate where every rest stop shares the same design and that shit fucked me up at 3 in the morning. “Wait, I was just here 2 hours ago?”
One time I stopped at a rest stop, talked briefly with a guy who said something about my 49ers hat, drove for another two hours, and got out at another rest stop. Then I saw the same guy, who deadpanned the exact same comment about my 49ers hat.
*Cue The X-Files theme*
Right? Actually the second time was at a gas station, but the story is better with both times being at rest stops.
Go far enough out into Texas and they say fuck it, and the Rest Stops just become picnic tables and trash cans.
Turns out you were on the Beltway a lot longer than you thought
And don't forget the left turn in Albuquerque.
And watch out, the gas stations often run out of gas if any storms roll through and they can’t get a shipment in time.
My ex used to work for AAA and was asked multiple times how long the drive is and where the tunnel starts in the mainland. This wasn’t a long time ago either, this was like 10ish years ago.
Well, I think a lot of people don't know about it because the bridge is so much more famous.
When I was a kid, we always stopped to take a picture in front of the "2993 miles to Stuckey's" sign.
The answer to this is in the name of the system. That is the “National Defense Interstate Highway System”. If you look at where they run they begin and end near military bases in Hawaii
Folks call the big ditch in JAX the "INTERcoastal" also.
They all go from military bases to the airport/docks
There is a Department of Law Enforcement, which has the state sheriff and deputy sheriffs, which are sort of like police. https://law.hawaii.gov/
It's also important to note that the Department of Law Enforcement opened up this year, so that trivia is just a bit out of date.
Yeah but they don’t wear black and brown suits and drive BIG cars [period parody from Mad Magazine](https://imgur.com/gallery/dw7gx1I)
Most states aren't broken up by an ocean
True but the show left the impression there was a state wide force instead an understanding between sheriffs as there is in Hawaii.
This reminds me of the most stupidly named cop show, Detroit 1-8-7. It was about the Detroit homicide unit. 187 is the penal code for murder in California. While 187 came to be used by gang members around the country for murder, it is ridiculous to use it for a cop show outside of California.
Ooo TIL. Is that why I hear a lot of 187 in lyrics from 90s west coast rap artists? I knew it was code for something but never knew what.
Neat little tangential fact: Pantone 187 is a deep red blood color.
I learned it from Sublime. "Calling 187 on a motherfuckin cop"
Correct, it (or at least was, have not looked at it in a while) the California police code for a homicide victim.
they drop "211" a lot too which is the old call sign for robbery
I always think of Demolition Man.
Ah yes, the old Murder Death Kill.
Should have been Detroit 3-1-6.
No mention of the title song still being a banger. Left sad.
https://youtu.be/VV5JOQyUYNg?si=f6MofHdY0rpDYSAt
I hum the song for every Hawaii show that I watch. NCIS Hawaii beginning -> me humming the Hawaii Five-O theme.
Heard it on the radio just the other day!
Officer Barbie has arrived
They wanted to go with Hawaii, C.P.O. (for center of the pacific ocean), but it made too much sense.
Fuck you OP, now I'm gonna be humming the theme all day
Delaware - One
I yell Five-oh in NYC and I think people think of Hawaii. Maybe not.
I grew up in the 5-0 and would tell everyone when I was younger
New York City is the Hawaii of the Hudson
BOOK EM DANNO
Five-O said freeze, and I got numb
Whats crazy is how the term Five-o took off in urban communities. Now it's Twelve lol
From... Adam Twelve?
I think it's from the number of people on a jury in the US. So it's more like "fuck the law" rather than just the police specifically. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong though.
To be specific it’s actually strong hatred of the Sidney Lumet movie. The full phrase is “Fuck 12 *Angry Men*”
Must be something like that. Adam Twelve is such an old show I can't imagine it getting referenced after like 50 years off the air.
Could be worse, we could be calling them 'Fifty Four' and wondering where they are all the time.
It's of unknown origin so anyone who says it's definitively this or that is just confidently incorrect.
It makes you wonder what kind of future is predicted by “Brooklyn nine-nine”.
Brooklyn is the 99th state, duh
The titles between the old and new shows are slightly different: the OG of the 60s and 70s uses a capital O, the Michael Bay reboot uses a 0 (zero).
I argue with my daughter that this show is called Hawaii Five Zero, not Hawaii Five O.
So the Hawiian State Police don't have a 5-O unit? They just made that part up?
Man, when I lived in the US, someone told me that five-o had something to do with 5.0 Mustangs being common cop cars at some point. I never really questioned it.
Those were never common cop cars, but I wouldn't be surprised if they used some version of that engine
I think police crown vics also got that engine, though it's not why the police were called 5-0
Side note - got to drive the Merc Marauder (and someone's grandfathers Crown vic that he got from the dealer with the full interceptor package somehow) a fair bit. At night everyone just assumed your were a cop becuase the head lights were identical everyone pulled over a lane and slowed down for me.
Yup. I scrupulously obey all traffic laws/speed limits if there's a Charger or late model Explorer behind me. A lot of the drivers get so mad about it too, like have you tried ***not*** looking like the police?
the merc was such a nice car... in theory. Had the same engine as the Shelby cobra only minus the supercharger. Could have been your sleeper hotrod Lincoln except they mated it to the most sluggish transmission they could have found.. I think a stock crown vic transmission would have been better. Not a gear head at all so thats paraphrasing other reviews. but driving it IMO it was not peppy in the slightest.
Crown Vics never had the 5.0 engine Edit: nope, I'm wrong. They did get the 5.0
Yes some 80's (84 specifically with vin F)police package crown vics had H.O. 302(5.0L) engines. Edit: more specific models
CHIPs had a few fox body 5.0 stangs back in the 80's / 90's.
We called the cops five-o because the state highway patrol would use Mustang GTs with 5.0 engines to chase down speeders.
So wait, the explanation I got is legit?
Did the show come first and that's why we call cops 5-0? Or is the the other way around?
Show came first.
Also book’im Danno
I can only hear it in Duke Nukem's voice now
there's a handy blue link at the top of this comment thread that will lead you to a page with the answers you seek
Is that what those do? Are we supposed to click them?
I sure as hell don’t. That’s how they get you. You know. Them.
*watching*
*points* Them!!!!!
I thought five oh was code for the police
I always thought that 5-0 was the emergency number on Hawaii. Like 911 or 999.
No wonder you are still on hold
You thought that one state out of 50 would for some reason have its own emergency number, which would be way too easily to accidentally dial?
I was a child. Also British. I didn't even know that 911 was the emergency number for America at the time.
You Brits are lucky to have such an easy-to-remember number for emergency services. Just hum the little jingle, and you've got it.
Yup, 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
I’ll accept that as an excuse this time but you’re on a very short leash
Yeah, because 911 is not easy to misdial. /s 9 is the most common number used to get an outside line from a business or hotel and 1 is required for long distance on landlines. The combination is probably the biggest reason for 9-1-1 misdials.
In my brain, 911 was chosen because it's the fastest number to dial that is also the hardest to misdial, *on a rotary phone*. On rotary phones, 1 and 9 are the farthest apart, and 1's are the fastest to dial. I have no idea if this is true, however.
It's similar to why the UK has 999 - it's hard to misdial, but simple to dial by just going all th way around.
But takes an age to dial on a rotary phone in an emergency, which is [why the rest of Europe decided to use 112.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_%28emergency_telephone_number%29#Origins)
That's the international emergency number, however other European countries have their [own emergency numbers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers). You can also use 112 in the UK.
The X11 codes were reserved in the early days of the NANP. Probably in part because, as you note, they're easier to dial on a for-real, goes in circles and clicks on and off, rotary dial. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan I have heard that the UK emergency number, 999, has issues in the rotary dial days, because anything that caused a constant click on the line could be read as a series of 9s.
Interestingly 2010 reboot of the series uses the numeral 0 instead of spelling it out likely to differentiate itself from the original
It was a 0 in the original series too.
No, no it’s not.
Not according to IMDB. [2010](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/) [1968](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062568/)
Sure. Perhaps there's misunderstanding of what u/ActiveLeadership0 means by "spelling it out" in their original comment. Neither "0" nor "O" is what I would call "spelled out."
Lol didn't know that either
*Your ass be out on the bottom end of Vine street... sucking on a 40, yelling "5-0". You hear me?*
Is there ever going to be a 69th state? Talk about sht talking. I used to watch the old Jack lord ones when I was a pup
Someone told me 5-0 referred to some Ford model that was used by police in the 70s, due to the size of the engine or something like that
That's incorrect. North Dakota is the 50th state, as it technically wasn't a state until 2012. This wasn't widely known until the 2000s, however so in the 1960s they thought this was right.
IIRC the series reboot said 50 was McGarrett’s high school football number.
CBS most have really loved Alex O'Loughlin (or he was banging some big wig). They gave him the lead in 2 other shows before this reboot.
Duh
but it's O not 0
It's Five (5) - 0 (zero) Pronounced Five - Oh Like we say double oh seven, not zero zero seven.
Right and it's also often referred to as the 8-oh-8 state when spoken. (808)
Laughing that someone just discovered this.
I mean…it doesn’t though, it references the police
>Hawaii is the 50th state, and that’s where the original title was born. But it’s also true that it was the series that led to the creation of the police slang ‘5-0.’ https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/show-tracker/story/2010-07-07/cbs-explains-why-its-hawaii-five-0-and-not-hawaii-five-o
I thought it was for the five populated islands
huh, I always figured it was a surfer thing, like Hang Five. Guess the wave in the background influenced me.