Hong Kong to let you text the cops in case of emergency

Right, well, it sounds a little ridiculous to us Westerners, but they're doing it for the disabled so shut it: Hong Kong is now offering emergency services to be summoned by SMS, so those who can't talk or otherwise communicate verbally can call (not in the literal sense, naturally) for help. Keep in mind, this is a huge step forward; you used to have to fax for emergency services. For serious. We can't help but wonder if there isn't some better way than typing out your situation and location in t9, but either way we suppose any more avenues to communicate to emergency services can't be bad. But if you think you had a hard time getting a cop before by calling, we don't even want to know what the response time on an SMS is going to be.