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Dial 08 on your phone and hit call. I dare you.
"Emergency services, what's your emergency?"
All the emergency numbers from basically everywhere on Earth are coded into your phone's firmware, since they're shipped all over the planet plus people move around a lot.
They do this because people staying in a different country likely don't know the local emergency numbers, so the phone should automatically map any emergency number to the local emergency number.
https://www.adducation.info/general-knowledge-travel-and-transport/emergency-numbers/
https://brilliantmaps.com/emergency-telephone-numbers/
I can't find any current article listing 08 as an emergency number, but I know this for a fact from the USA from accidental pocket dialing from an old dumb cell phone back around 2015 with an actual keypad.
But yeah, the way modern cell phones work these days, you should be able to reach your local emergency services from basically any of those numbers.
Hopefully you will never go abroad:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers
And yes, I tried. Just now.
I tried the 08 number from the UK. It told me "Running USSD command". I hope to god you didn't troll me.