Malfunctioning phone in Guelph, Ont. calls 911 nearly 200 times

A malfunctioning phone kept Guelph Police Service dispatchers on their toes for over an hour on Thursday after the device called 911 nearly 200 times.

The first call came in at 10:54 a.m., but no one spoke on the other end of the line. The calls kept coming until just after noon.

Dispatchers traced the phone to an address in the city’s east-end.

Officers went to the house of the phone owner, who was unaware the phone was auto-dialing 911 until police were knocking at their door.

Police concluded that the malfunction was due to the phone being dropped in water.