999 is the phone number used to dial emergency services in England. Ted once noted thet he thought it was a "troublesome" number, as compared with the United States' usage of 911, He thought toddlers could simply butt-dial it because it was a single number thrice repeated. When he asked Higgins and Nathan whether it wouldn't create a steady stream of falsely-dialled ambulance traffic, they confirmed that it did, indeed, happen "quite a lot".
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