One Expensive 'Lesson' For Six-Year-Old

A hoax call to 911 about a plane crash last week cost two New Hampshire towns about $224, according to news reports.

As ANN reported, the state's emergency call center got a report of a plane crash near Hudson, NH from a 911 caller who sounded like a child. The caller hung up immediately.

There were no other reports from the public, so police quickly determined they were looking for a prankster, not a crash scene.

Investigators traced the call to a deactivated cellphone -- a process that cost the two communities $223.55, reports The Nashua Telegraph -- and the owner admitted his six-year-old son had the phone at daycare.

The child's teacher talked to the boy, and retrieved the phone from him. Police determined that the youngster did indeed place the call, on the deactivated phone his father had given him so he could play the video games stored on it.

While that amount of money might strike some as significant, Pelham Fire Chief Michael Walker was willing to cut the kid a break -- calling the cost to his department "negligible."

The child's teachers also used the incident as an opportunity to educate on the proper use of 911. There's no word on whether the child's father will be billed for the cities' efforts.

FMI: www.ci.hudson.nh.us/