Ray Gifford notes a recent FCC order decreeing that any VoIP customer must have service cut off if he/she does not, by the end of August, acknowledge to the service provider an awareness that VoIP does not do an automatic 911 connection to your local emergency services.

In sum, because your phone service might not work perfectly in an emergency, the FCC is decreeing that you should have no phone service at all in an emergency.

As Dave Barry would say, you can't make this stuff up!