Oh, if only the National Road and Motorist Assocation (New South Wales)
had local call centres. A friend had a breakdown at the "Glenloch Interchange" in Canberra a few years ago. Now the wonderful thing about Canberra is that the suburbs are defined by major roads and the interchange isn't officially in any of them. So the call centre person asks what suburb and friend says that the area does not have a suburb name, but it's the Glenloch Interchange. Everyone in the city knows it. "I can't send someone out unless you give your suburb." "It's not in a suburb, it's near Black Mountain and Lake Burley Griffin, it's not in a suburb" and more of the same. Call centre is of course in Sydney.

Actually a kid died in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney recently when he got lost in the bush. He called 000 at least twice but was ignored because he had no suburb name for the call centre folk to put on their form.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 12:31, Reply)