Calling 911...have you ever done it?

DashDeV

"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.

^^^This. No one has any idea how hard of a job this is unless you do it. To provide some comfort for the loss of a person you never met, so be the first one to deal with their pain... to have the old and the young alike die while not being able to save them no matter what you try. To comfort those in car accidents, who realize they have damaged or caused the end of a life. To be covered in someone's blood, puke, and other bodily fliuds.

Anyone who even jokes about 911 not being serious, go visit your fire department or EMS department. Ask to ride along. I don't care if you were quoting a song lyric. It's a sucky lyric that just shows ignorance.

Thank you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTufpbiT3-0

babyshme

I have a few times.

Scariest one was we where driving down the highway and 3 teenagers where throwing rocks off the over pass. It hit our windshield. We called and they truly didn't care. Told us, if no one is hurt to not call again.

JDMarlowe

"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.

THIS !!!!! ^^^^^^^^ Amen!!

CharityGC

Once I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and happened to look out the window. There was a car driving very slowly down the road, stopping periodically in front of people's houses. Later I came to find out our neighbor's boxers had gotten out of their yard and it was the neighbor driving around, trying to find them.

matchbox_girl

How could anyone ever say 911 is a joke?

JDMarlowe

Yeah, when me and my best friend were kids I dialed it on a pay phone just to see what would happen. Didn't realize for 911 you didn't actually have to pay.

They called back. We cried and fled the scene.

Now I am 911...

Oh, and for all those people that do it as a joke or a prank, I just want you to be informed: when we're dispatched to your "joke", our ambulance/fire truck/cop car is considered "out of service." So when a child on the other side of town is not breathing, we can't respond because we're headed to your prank. Just keep that in mind the next time you think it's funny to call 911

^^^ Preach it !!!!

Sandytoes71

yesterday was my latest... sparking power line started a mulch fire...
but i'm usually the one going on the calls, not making them.

let me tell you, it sucks getting out of bed at 3 am for a prank or because someone has "insurance-itis".

Dude, feels. One of my closest friends is a fire fighter in Victoria, Australia. He hates idiots that prank 000, but more he hates firebugs and many of them join the volunteer fire fighters. So many of the bad bush fires we have here that make international news are from volunteer fire fighters starting a fire because they want the adrenaline rush and to be seen as a hero -_-

Omgosh!! Seriously?? Wow!

No_Finish_Line

underage party when i was in highschool. the kid insisted he was dying or something. i think it was food posioning. cops drove by said nothing. ambulance came too of course.

DashDeV

"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.

THIS !!!!! ^^^^^^^^ Amen!!

I wonder what the quotations mean in the post you're all quoting? durrr

babyj0

I called when I was little to see what would happen. And then I lied about it of course.

Another time when the kid my mom was baby sitting was having a seizer and none of us know what to do.

The third time, our neighbors son came to our house saying that his mom was trying to kill herself. Eek.

soullightprisms

I have had to call quite a few time
car accidents
when my daughter broke her foot it 3 places
whenever I get stung by a bee
neighbors trying to kill each other

k8blujay2

I've called it a couple of times. We don't have a non-emergency number, so I call it when I see a car broken down in the middle of our arterial streets... I'm always afraid that the broken down car is going to cause an accident, whether directly or indirectly... and we have way too many people that go at least 10 miles over the speed limit.

btw, police officers have told us to do this...


ETA: Oh and to try and bust some obnixous 18 year olds that like to party at 3 am for underage drinking and smoking pot... but that never worked.

iangelbailey10

Once for a car accident I witnessed of a drunk driver. Then, for myself when I had an anaphylactic reaction to some ibuprofen.. didn't know I was allergic to it.

k8blujay2

I called when I was little to see what would happen. And then I lied about it of course.

my brother did that once and then everyone assumed it was our younger brother who was a toddler at the time... the truth didn't come out until MUCH later. :laugh:

MayaSPapaya

Yes, about five years ago my grandpa fell and got hurt and couldn't get up. My dad found him laying on the floor of the basement and told me and my sister to call 911 for an ambulance. I was very scared.

HeyGoRun

I did as a kid in the 90's messing around with my cousin just hanged up and the cops got there FAST!
I felt safer in the 90's! :happy:

vtmoon

"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.

THIS !!!!! ^^^^^^^^ Amen!!

I wonder what the quotations mean in the post you're all quoting? durrr

I admire your commitment to trying to defend that "911 joke" joke, and that you called as a prank. But at this point and based on how the response on this thread is going, it might be better to just let it go. Sometimes jokes fall flat, you either scrap them or rework them.

Rei1988

Called a few times for overhearing of domestic abuse.

Called for myself twice because of fainting.

TammyP64

Twice...once when an elderly man fell and had hit his head. The other time when my husband and I were eating dinner at a restaurant and I saw a mom physically abusing her toddler son. The cops came and arrested her.

Maidofmer

few dozen times. domestic 3-4 times to report a car accident