Calling 911...have you ever done it?
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Once when a guy trying to break into my boyfriend's car pulled a knife on us, he ran...
Once when same boyfriend had an unexplained seizure at a mall... he was okay and the ambulance ride was fun...
Once when I was very pregnant and had a medical emergency, the EMS guys were super hawt! The baby and I were okay. And the ambulance ride was fun...0 -
Many times! All necessary, but these are my two favorite 911 calls.:laugh: I was probably 20 or 21 and I was a smoker. I was working at a big electronics store and I was up front signing out with a friend to go have a smoke break. This ridiculous looking dude (pants literally around his knees, boxers so low you could see crack, huge puffy jacket mid-TX summer, silver crap all over his teeth. Caps?) comes in and asks "you got fitty sense?" He had a lisp but I was pretty sure he was asking me for 50 cents. I checked my pockets, said I was sorry, I didn't have any money on me, and he said "eff you, b*tch!" and walked away. Whatever. So my friend and I go out to my car to get my cigarettes and as we're walking back the well dressed gentleman is coming toward us pointing his hand like a gun and says he's going to kill us. :huh: He gets in this giant primered suburban and drives over the curb/grass trying to hit us. I stopped between a couple cars long enough to dial 911 and give the plate info. This dude is screaming obscenities out his window and coming around the other aisle of cars to try to get to us, so we looped around and made it inside before he could come back up the other aisle. The police found him a mile or so down the road and arrested him b/c he had drugs and several weapons on him. I later found out from another coworker that he was looking for the 50 Cent CD. I guess he thought I was making fun of him?:laugh:
In a close tie, this call happened around the same time, working for the same place. All of our managers were attending a funeral for one of our manager's baby that passed.:frown: We were really short staffed and had a manager from a neighboring store filling in, and the loss prevention guy couldn't get him to respond to his pages. He told me there was a suspicious guy over by dvd/tv combos and asked me to go check on him. So I go back there and this guy has his back to me and he's wearing a backpack on his front side, with the straps facing me. I say "sir, is there anything I can help you with?" He turns around and his backpack is open, and full of porn dvds, and his pants are open, with his semi-hard on in his hand. Dude doesn't even bother to stop jerking it to say "I can't get this to work." < He was talking about one of the tv/dvds. I told him I'd need to find someone who could better assist him, and got the eff out of there. Called 911 on my cell, and ran around looking for a manager. Found one and explained what happened. Had never met this guy prior to this, and he responds "so he's rocking out with his c**k out, huh? I know that guy. He was at my store last week" :laugh: I reluctantly followed him back to the guy. Manager told him to put it away and escorted him up front as the police got there.0 -
many times for many reasons. overdoses, gun shots, gangs, street brawls, drunk drivers.0
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Seizures, throwing up blood, heart beating at over 300bpm......etc etc
edit: i was a frequent flyer before my seizures got under control0 -
Yes, a few times. Most traumatic ones are the time my dad didnt answer his phone, so I went over and found him dead.
The other was when I was the first person to come across a horrendous car crash involving a group of teens, with two of them being deceased at the scene. Its hard to get over these.:frown:0 -
Yes, quite a few times.
- report drunk & SERIOUS reckless driving
- accidents
- domestic dispute across the street
- major road safety issues which could cause an accident
I actually know a couple of the county operators and recognized their voice when they answered.0 -
Just once. Called about two junkies having a screaming fight in the street. I would have ignored it, but they had a small dog that they were fighting over.
I have had to call the non-emergency line a few times; most recently when someone broke out my car window with a (full) beer bottle.0 -
I did it once as a kid because I wanted to see what could happen. They sent a cop out to my house. Of course my parents were like, WTF?0
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Just once. I was due to have a baby at any point in time.. and my young neighbor showed up covered in blood saying his mom is going crazy and that his older brother was bleeding...
Scariest moment of my life. The proper authorities showed, the young fella was taken with the police and child services, and the older brother was taken via ambulance for 20 stitches in his arm.. his mother threw him through a window. Nice.0 -
I was the reason for a 911 call. I woke my husband up and told him to call 911 because I was in labor and having the baby NOW!
The caller was great and talked my husband through the whole thing. The ambulance came shortly after. We had a healthy little baby.
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A couple of times.
Most recent when my daughters bf's mom choked to death in my porch. I was performing cpr while 911 was on the line.0 -
For car accidents a few times, called in a roadside fire once.
My fave was an accident, though. Freshman year in college, hammered out of my mind in my dorm room, called an old girlfriend from back home. Her area code was 916, and you had to dial 9 to get an outside line from the dorms. Dialing is rather difficult when you drunk, so I apparently dialed 911 at least once while trying to dial her number. While on the phone with her the campus police come knocking on my door. I'm sure it was rather obvious that I was drunk, and of course underage, but luckily they saw I was OK, told me to "be safe," and left. Wouldn't want to have to explain that to my mom.0 -
Three times. First when I was a waitress and one of my usual customers when into Diabetic shock?? Not sure if that is the right term, good thing there were some police already there having breakfast and they helped. The next time there was a fire in the woods behind and beside my house, that was scary, and the last time was for a fire that I saw while driving down a road, I am pretty sure it was a lightning fire.0
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Yep.. Neighbors dog attacked my son. Split his bottom lip in half and punctured his right cheek.
I didn't have a vehichle at the time to drive him to the hospital.
And my son called once on me because my lips were turning blue while I was having an asthma attack..0 -
wow. some ppl lead sheltered lives
yes I've called 911
I've been arrested and jailed
I kissed girls
I've done drugs, sex, rock & roll
life is for LIVING - it's not a spectator sport
except for the been arrested and jailed I've also done all of the above...
I did have the police show up at my house for a couple of noise complaints though...0 -
A couple times. There was a car accident outside my house. I heard the tires squeal and the crash, so I went outside. It looked like one of the drivers was holding their head, so I called it in. And there were half a dozen other looky-lous just standing a few feet away watching.
Another time I woke up in the middle of the night to hearing glass smashing and a woman screaming "you're a f-ing rapist!" I was about to pick up the phone to call when three cop cars pulled up to the house next door to me. Apparently the argument/assault had been going on for a while before it woke me up.
One other time there was a dog running in and out of traffic on the highway during rush hour. I called that in but they already knew.0 -
wow. some ppl lead sheltered lives
yes I've called 911
I've been arrested and jailed
I kissed girls
I've done drugs, sex, rock & roll
life is for LIVING - it's not a spectator sport
lol at this whole comment. Some peoples definition of living doesn't include going to jail and being drugged up.
Sounds like a blast.. :huh:
And what does kissing girls have to do with living?0 -
Nope. I am always the guy who points to a person, and says, "You. Call 911"0
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wow. some ppl lead sheltered lives
yes I've called 911
I've been arrested and jailed
I kissed girls
I've done drugs, sex, rock & roll
life is for LIVING - it's not a spectator sport
Your definition of living and my definition are way, waaaaay different.
I don't consider doing drugs or getting arrested living. But hey if you think being drugged up and spending your time in a tiny windowless room and having all of your freedoms taken away from you is the way one "lives" then have at it. :drinker: I prefer to spend my time out side, cognizant and free.:flowerforyou:0 -
How could anyone ever say 911 is a joke?
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I did. there was a lot of banging, stomping around and swearing coming from the apartment above mine. Didn't know if it was a bad domestic fight or what. The police came, and after they came back to my apartment and told me the guy was really into playing his video game :noway: and was sorry for the noise!
EDIT - forgot, also when a really bad accident happened in front of me on the highway (the car was upside down) but they already knew about it. I would never call as a joke! You are taking resources away from someone who might really need them (and one time that could be you!).0 -
2 heart attacks and a fire.0
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"9-1-1 is a joke"
Everyone whom works 911 will remember that when you are having a true emergency and need us. We will just forget you called, if we are a joke.
I've comforted a dying child in my arms. I've shaken the had of a cardiac arrest victim that survived because of us. I've delivered babies, I've hugged a perfect stranger who's husband had just passed.
*kitten* you, sir. *kitten*. You.
thanks for your service.
my apologies for making the joke too obscure.
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Once so far. I came home from work to find my neighbor collapsed in front of his door, drenched in sweat. He was trying and failing to get his key in the lock. I'd noticed he was wearing an insulin pump the last time we'd chatted. So I called 911 and got him into his apartment. The fire dept showed up a few minutes later and about ten minutes after that I was standing in my kitchen with a firefighter mixing ridiculous amounts of sugar into iced tea. Thank God he was OK. I'm very grateful that I happened to come home when I did- there are only 3 other people who go onto our landing regularly, he could have been there for a while.0
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I have a few times. Auto accidents, a drunk driver and someone near my bedroom window.0
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Once to report a car accident.
I also dream about having to call 911 and in my dreams it just rings and rings and when someone finally picks up, I can't hear them or they can't hear me. Terrifying, though it happened to my mom when she called to report a mugging. It rang and rang and when they finally picked up they kept transferring her around the city. Took about ten minutes before someone actually helped her.
And a few times by accident, like many people have said, working in a business where you have to dial out with 9-1- and then the number. I think it should be a different number to dial out of businesses, because it seems to happen so frequently!0 -
Yes, my dad and I were cutting dead tree branches in his back yard, and I was WAAAAY up (about five stories in the air) and he pinched a nerve, or cut off the oxygen by keeping his head craned back / looking up to watch me.
He asked me to come down and said he wasn't feeling well. I helped him into the house and watched him. He didn't want me to call an ambulance, and I was waiting for a call back from his doctor. Shortly thereafter, his eyes rolled back into his head and he passed out I called 911.
The ambulance arrived in less than ten minutes, and my dad was okay. I am very grateful for their service.0 -
I used to work in a medical clinic, so I've called a few times for patients. There was also one instance when the nurse in the clinic called and hung up by accident... if you hang up on 911 they can trace the call and will call back. I was the unlucky one who answered and had to convince the dispatcher that the hang up was a mistake and not done because someone was holding a gun on us.0
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My first was in high school - a friend of mine got dumped by her idiot boyfriend, took a bottle of sleeping pills and called me to say goodbye. Turns out he dumped her because she got pregnant. Both my friend and her baby were fine after a couple nights at the hospital.
After that - two car crashes that I was a passenger in the hit car. Got to love climbing up a 40 foot embankment during an ice storm and finding out that the nearest phone is your ex-boyfriends' parents house. I was lucky to walk away from that crash.
My stupidest call was because my carbon monoxide detector in my apartment was going off - they cleared the building only to find out that it was beeping because the battery was low. Never been so embarrassed in my life!
Another was due to a bunch of drunk idiot teens laying down in the road in front of another apartment I was living in - I've done stupid stuff (see above story) but that's damn near suicidal to me! I got one tenant in that building evicted after he tried to break into my place one night, and his girlfriend threw pot seeds into my little garden plot as revenge. Luckily, I know what pot leaves look like and had the police remove the plants before she could call and tell them I was growing weed.
The last five or six calls to the rescue squad were all due to my mother's illnesses. She has a huge mistrust of doctors and hospitals (and she used to be an RN!), so she'll get to the point of coughing up blood or letting her dizzy bouts go for so long that she cracks her head on her dresser when she falls...as well as going into a diabetic coma. Thankfully, she's living with us now, so I can keep a better eye on her health.0 -
1. Tree caught on fire from neighbor kids on July 4th with fireworks
2. Niece had a seizure
3. Tree on fire from lightening
4 House across the street on fire from squatters/electrical issue (never found out which, house was abandoned)
Edit: I butt dialed 911 one time too and they sent police over to my house when they heard "cult like chanting" on the phone. I had been singing along to a song while cleaning my house and let the officers in to show them that no satanic rituals were taking place. In their defense the song was "Could This Be Love" by Alkaline Trio so I can understand the concern.0
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