Calling 911...have you ever done it?

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.

Seizures, throwing up blood, heart beating at over 300bpm......etc etc

edit: i was a frequent flyer before my seizures got under control

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.

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?

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.

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.

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..

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.

Nope. I am always the guy who points to a person, and says, "You. Call 911"

How could anyone ever say 911 is a joke?

2 heart attacks and a fire.

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.

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!

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.

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.