Malloc will happily “return” the 15 TiB you asked for.
If 10000 people called 911 at the same time, only a tiny fraction would get through (and even fewer would get help).
Evacuating a large city by road would result in giant traffic jams.
There are 5-8x as many parking spots as there are cars (and we still can’t find a goddamn spot).
And of course… the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.