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A landscaper was left 'deeply shocked and embarrassed' when police officers turned up at his home after a horrifying 'stuff up' caused by a voice-to-text message.
Timothy, 55, left his friend Rich a cheery voice message on Rich's Telstra Belong voice message service on Thursday, October 14, just before 6pm.
But when the message was converted to text it somehow got lost in translation - and the words 'I want to kill myself' were added.
'Hi good afternoon, hope you're going ok. Yeah well I'm going to kill myself. Yeah hope you're going well. Just good to hear you the other day,' the SMS read.
A Sydney landscaper was left 'deeply shocked and embarrassed' when police officers turned up at his home after a horrifying 'stuff up' caused by a bizarre failure of Telstra's voice-to-text message system. The actual SMS Rich received from his friend that prompted him to call the police
When Rich replied to the frightening message to ask if Timothy was ok, he got no response.
He then tried call but Timothy did not pick up.
Rich then called the police on the advice of friends, who quickly tracked Timothy's number to his home, in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs - and sent a car there.
Within an hour of Rich's panicked call, three Sydney police officers were banging on the door of Timothy's home.
His bemused wife led the three officers past their two teenage boys and into Timothy's home office.
'I was deeply shocked and embarrassed, I was minding my own business and then suddenly there's three burly cops standing over me saying 'you know why we're here right?'
Police turned up at the man's home believing his life was at risk - because the Telstra voice-to-message system somehow translated a cheerful check-in between friends as 'I want to kill
