Today's tip: Cellphones aren't toys. Even deactivated ones can be used to make emergency calls.
That's what happened in Illinois, where officials say a 4-year-old girl called emergency dispatchers 287 times -- about 15-20 times a shift -- from a deactivated phone that couldn't be traced. The dispatchers only figured out the caller's identity by offering to send McDonald's if she gave them her address.
Police went to the little girl's house, where the local paper says they found a content child and a bewildered mother.
