Today is september 1st, 2001. 9-1-1. The first time in history this date means anything to those of us who are (or in my case were) in law enforcement, and the last time in 100 years it will be 911! May you all live to call the date 911 again!
:rolleyes: I ment to put this in MPSMIS. You know what to do MOD.
So get up, get, get get down
911 is a joke in yo town
Get up, get, get, get down
Late 911 wears the late crown
Ow, ow 911 is a joke
Still not as good as four seconds to twelve thirty five on July 8th 11 years ago.
12:34:56 7/8/90
Actually, I did call 911 today (Sunday the 2nd). I saw a dog locked in a car at the supermarket’s parking lot, so I called it in.
I accidentally called 911 once. I was sleeping and the phone woke me up. I didn’t pick it up in time, and in my still partial sleep state I decided to try to check my voice mail. Here you have to dial “9” to get an outside line. To get your messages (once you’re in the mailbox) you have to dial “11”.
So while I’m partially asleep I dial “9” and I still get a dial tone, so then I dial “11” and the phone starts ringing.
A guy answers the phone, “911, emergency.” (or something like that)
In my sleepy daze I have all kinds of memories from grade school come flooding back. They were memories of those films we saw in school warning not to call 911, because it wasn’t a toy, and how if we did the police would come and arrest us, or how you could be taking up a phone line that someone really needed for a real emergency.
I apologized, I can’t really remember what I said, but I imagine I sounded pretty funny telling the operator how sorry I was and how I did it on accident in a groggy voice.
Pfff!
You crazy Americans!!
We Australians (and, I believe, the English) know that 9/1/1 came and went in January.
big dog lover here, but wouldn’t you dial the non-emergency number (like 311 in Chicago) for a dog locked in a car? i’d only dial 911 if i saw a house on fire, a person running down the street screaming for her life (as I once did), or something a little more life-or-death than a dog in a car. (Unless, perhaps, the dog really looked liked it was going to die without emergency assistance.)
My ex is a 911 dispatcher, and she’s told me that you should probably call 911 then. I also didn’t know the number for the non-emergency police.
However, the dog was yelping and barking, so it needed help. The thing is, the car had Florida plates, so the driver shoulda known better.
I, personally, have never called 911. But last winter a friend of mine did while I was at his house. He was having his seventeenth birthday party, and, well, we accidentally started a chiminy (sp?) fire, so 911 it was.
The funny thing was, before his parents left for the weekend the one thing they asked him not to do was burn the house down. So we all blamed it on them for jinxing us.