I’d hear worse from customers on the phone while working at a department store… this guy is supposed to be handling 911 calls, what the fuck did he expect???
Should be fired, sued, and be ordered to wear a pacifier for the next 12 months, IMO.
Man, they’d better not pull that shit with my girlfriend if she’s ever on 911. She swears more than any woman I’ve ever met.
(((Litoris))))
Reading that made me curse out loud. Very loud. :mad:
He’s a cop – a cop ! And he’s moaning about foul language. What an asshole. He’s very lucky nothing apparently serious happened to the person in question as a result of his assholery.
That reminds me of the operator who scolded a little boy when he called 911, and hung up on him, instead of sending someone to check on the situation. The kid was calling because his mother was sick (and died at their home, without getting help).
Why take a job as a dispatcher if you’re incapable of *dispatching *help?
I read a couple of news articles–apparently they arrested the girl when she went to a police station, for “abusing 911”–a non existent charge.
Oh shit, Litoris, I am so sorry. (Oh wait, I swore!)
Seriously, please, accept my condolences.
I thought it was that no matter what, even if it was an obvious prank-call, you send someone out there?
Me too. I’ve heard stories of toddlers/kids calling 911 and officers coming out to the house anyway, even if an adult caught the kid in the act and explained it to the dispatcher because of the whole better safe than sorry mentality.
Tell me someone got fired. Tell me the asshole who started this got canned, and the other asshole cops who arrested her on a trumped up charged got canned too.
The world is not that just, is it? Fucking pisses me off!
Exactamundo! 
Virtually any girl I went to high school with in dark ages of the mid-sixties would have been able to communicate the need for an ambulance, panicked or not, without using the word fuck. It’s a perfect indictment of today’s society that a teenager apparently cannot be expected to react to stress without shouting “fuck” all over the place.
Having said that, sending an ambulance should still have been the dispatcher’s top priority.
Okay, well, insert “Gee whiz” or “Jimminy jillickers” or “Goshdarnit” instead of fuck and we’re good to go.
When I was 12, my mom had a nervous breakdown. I called 911 and they told me they wouldn’t send an ambulance. I don’t know why, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the fact that I didn’t say “hello, my mom is having a nervous breakdown” but something along the lines of “my mom has had a computer chip implanted in her brain that is telling her to do things and thinks that every red car is being controlled by her ex husband and following us.”
All I heard was “well, I’m not going to send out an ambulance…” before hanging up the phone in desperation. She ended up driving us to the hospital herself. We both could have died, because by then she was having some kind of gigantic tremors. While driving.
Outside of the occasional newspaper comic strip, no teenager of those days would be caught dead saying any of that. (And btw, I think what you’re looking for is “Jiminy Cricket” or “Gee, willikers”, not “Jimminy jillickers”.)
It would more likely have been along the line of “Yes! Hello!..I think my dad’s having a heart attack! Please send an ambulance! The address is 1234 Hawthorne Ln.!”
See? Panicky, but quick, concise and to the point, and yet somehow not a vulgarity in sight. How did they ever do it?
Of course we had racism back then…:rolleyes:
Nope, definitely jimminy jillickers. I watch the Simpsons, too, you know!
Oops, sorry.
(I’m a South Park guy, myself.)
Hang on a mo. Surely, standards being different back then, that would simply mean the words we consider tame and amusing today to be pretty vulgar back then?
I mean, I would imagine people taking more exception then to “damn”, “hell”, and the various permutations of blasphemy back then. Really, I wouldn’t say there wasn’t the same vulgarity back then, but that the kind of vulgarity used doesn’t seem as vulgar now. I imagine I could easily shock a group of people from the 60’s (including your high school girls) with a speech that would be pretty reasonable nowadays.
Isn’t a cop on 911 duty already in the darkest corner of the precinct?
This happened last October.
Looks like Phillies / Tampa Bay in the Series this year!
For once, would you kindly just shut the fuck up about how perfect everything used to be? Nobody fucking cares. You are the most superficial, shallow, stupidest person I’ve ever come across. You should have known my grandmother. Devout Catholic, used to volunteer at the local food bank, a nurse’s aid…and a vocabulary that would make a Teamster blush.
Hey Fonzie will you save us a booth down at Arnold’s?