Have you ever dialed 9-1-1?

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What was your emergency, please

oops

I did once because a friend had been drinking hard liquor, and unbeknownst to us, had on top of that been taking xanax, which when mixed with alcohol can be fatal. she was being driven by a friend and kept going in and out of consciousness, and the friend was in tears.

friend turned out ok, she yelled at me for calling and she wound up not going to a hospital or anything.

another time was gruesome. coming home from the airport with my parents, was a car stopped dead in the middle of the center lane of the road with its flashers on.

i couldn't see why he was stopped, but I soon found out when, in a memory that I wish I could erase from my mind, my mom screamed "that's a PERSON", and we see a man lying facedown in the road in a pool of blood.

I called 911 and apparently they were already headed out there. Man died the next day, victim of a hit and run and left to die in the road. I didn't see it up close but was an image I couldn't shake from my mind for days. was just awful.

At 19, I was working at a call center doing outbound calls, dialing the numbers myself. The list of the day had phone #s starting in 912, and I accidentally dialed 911. Rather than saying "oops lol I meant 912," I freaked out and hung (hanged?) the phone up quickly. I guess cops showed up while I was still working. One of my coworkers, this tiny stoned guy who sang Bicycle Race to himself all the time, said, "I knew it was you because you're bad at everything."

xanax, which when mixed with alcohol can be fatal

chances are a user of the former has high tolerance thru regla intake, so they'd probably need a lot of both

Should've made a poll b/c I'd be interested to see approx what percentage of people have called emergency. I'd guess around 66%? I don't think I ever have, that I can recall, but that's only because someone has beat me to it. (A car accident site, someone falling out in a restaurant, etc)

this tiny stoned guy who sang Bicycle Race to himself all the time, said, "I knew it was you because you're bad at everything."

lol

other than calling it when I was 5 for fun, my dad was knocked out in a bar by some fucking idiot who thought he was hitting on his girlfriend. Nothing happened because the dude happened to be the nephew of the county sheriff. This is why I hate cops.

chances are a user of the former has high tolerance thru regla intake, so they'd probably need a lot of both

it's true...I've taken xanax and drank before too, so it's not like instant death. at the time though I was 23 and didn't know much about it.

other than calling it when I was 5 for fun, my dad was knocked out in a bar by some fucking idiot who thought he was hitting on his girlfriend. Nothing happened because the dude happened to be the nephew of the county sheriff. This is why I hate cops.

― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

holy fuck that's some bullshit!

I did call it once when I was rear-ended on I-95. I wanted to expedite things as the Miami Dolphins were kicking off in a little over and hour and I had tickets. It was a six vehicle collision...missed only six minutes of teh game!

fortunately my car was better off than half of the other 6. some weren't drivable. i just missed the guy in front of me after momentum surged us forward

Witnessed a lassie being assaulted by a man in a lane outside the pub next to my own flat (think it was a domestic, she was shouting at him and seemed to know him and still got up and walked after him screaming personal stuff at him after he'd been kicking her when she was on the ground, this made him turn round and commence round two of slapping). Too scared to go and interfere in anything being perpetrated by a large drunk violent man, I sat in my car and called the police. Stayed in the car until I heard the sirens then drove off again because I'd have had to walk past them to get into my flat.

actually a very wise decision that you did that

Times I have called 911 on purposely:
– husband needed to go to ER
– when a crime happened
– car accident
– the time I was pretty sure the neighbor kitty corner of me was beating the shit out of the woman and kids that lived in the house, due to the loud shouts of "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP HITTING THE KIDS" that I could hear in my house...also called child protection services then...called both a couple times and nothing happened, still the yelling every night

wow, this is why I'm glad I led a pretty sheltered life when it comes to that. most I ever saw growing up was undercovers raiding a house in a drug bust across thes treet.

It was fucking stupid, too, when I'd call the cops. They'd say, "We can't do anything unless there's proof." "Well, she's yelling to stop hitting me, stop hitting the kids, and I can hear it across the corner without even opening my door." "No, you have to see it. Did you go over and check? Did you look in the window or ask them about it?" Uh p sure it's your job to deal with the violent crazy guy, not mine?

They were equally helpful when I called because I was the victim of a crime. "SO it happened in here? Are you sure?" Yes wtf I am sure, why are you second guessing everything I say? And then no legal action happened. Everyone said the cops just didn't care abt the neighborhood I lived in, and I guess it was true. I am so glad I don't live there anymore, my blood is boiling just remembering all this.

9-1-1 is a joke

"No, you have to see it. Did you go over and check? Did you look in the window or ask them about it?"

what the fuck, the idea of law enforcement is to not embroil civilians in potential risky activity.

I once saw what looked like a small bonfire in the alley behind my house, so instead of calling 911, I called the fire station - fire was too big for a garden hose, too small for a 911 emergency, I figured. The dispatcher told me to call 911. I said, "Really?" She literally said, "Yeah, those guys aren't doing anything right now. Give 'em a call."

These two dudes were beating the shit out of each other in the hallway outside our (old) apartment, and the walls were basically shaking, so we figured we better call. By the time the police arrived the guys were gone. One of the many reasons I'm happy we moved.

xanax, which when mixed with alcohol can be fatal

chances are a user of the former has high tolerance thru regla intake, so they'd probably need a lot of both

― taiga mutha (nakhchivan), Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:27 AM (48 minutes ago)

lol excellent advice, this

lol @ editorializing dispatcher

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A co-worker had to stop by my apartment to drop something off one night. We were standing in the doorway talking, when I heard someone yell, "Hey!" I leaned my head out the door and saw a guy on the sidewalk pointing a shotgun at us. So we ran inside, locked the door and raced up the stairs. I called 911 and the dispatcher quickly figured out what was happening: The person who'd closed the record store below my apartment that night had typed in the wrong security code, which set off an alarm. The guy with the gun was the cop sent to check it out. Makes sense, I guess, but why was he wearing a windbreaker that didn't have "MPD" written anywhere we could see it? And why didn't he identify himself? And what kind of cop carries a shotgun? Very weird. I was shaky the rest of the night.

i think i've only called once, was several months ago - on my way home from a softball game with friends this lady suddenly stopped in the middle of the road next to us, her car was emitting this white smoke and she was evacuating what seemed to be 8 little kids

otoh i had the police called ON ME just yesterday for some bullshit that ended up being nothing

my friend kyle called 911 once because we were in our friend kelsey's car on friday night in scenic hilo, hawaii, and kelsey was second-generation japanese and kyle and i were both white and the car was improbably nice, because it was kelsey's parents' car, and this 4x4 full of hawaiian guys ran us off the road (the politics here are complicated and will be eschewed but they're pretty standard) and then blocked our way down the street, and kyle called 911 and had this absolutely ridiculous conversation with the dispatcher where i think he was trying to sound all nonchalant and unrattled (we were 17) and so said things like "yeah they're trying to run us off the road in a really cliched way". eventually they left.

I saw a few kids gathered on a Saturday night around the darkened door of the middle school on the next block over, figured they were thinking about breaking in. I was glad when the cop didn't come blaring in with lights and siren, just drove up, spoke to the kids briefly from inside the car, and everybody went on their way.