I saw part of a program called “The New Detectives” on the Discovery Channel last night, and one of the cases profiled was a murder in Seattle. The body was discovered by cops responding to a call from the victim’s employer who was worried because she hadn’t come into work or answered her phone. Does it seem strange to anyone else that:
a) The employer called the police
b) The police responded promptly?
No, TheRyan, not at all.
Here’s a real life one for you.
I had been with the company I’m with now (in another department though) for about 7 months. We were all pretty close friends, too. Well, one morning, I was really sick, and couldn’t go in. My son, who was sick as well, had gotten up and was watching TV. My SO had left to do some errands - NEGLECTING TO WAKE ME UP so I could call in sick. Well, time passes, the phone rings (I didn’t have an extension in the bedroom) and my son answered. It was one of my work friends asking where I was. He told them that I was at work - and that they should find me. Because SO did not wake me up or tell my son that I was home and the bedroom door was shut, he didn’t know I was actually at home. It’s 20 minutes from my home to work, so I should’ve been there an hour & 1/2 or so ago.
ANYWAY, the police DID come to my house. This is what woke me up. You see, my friend was concerned because:
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I had NEVER not shown up without calling.
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My son was 7 at the time and shouldn’t have been home alone.
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I never did get there (cause I was asleep) and she was concerned that my car could have broken down or I could have been in an accident.
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Any godawful number of things could have happened to me and she was worried.
So, moral to the story being is that yes, people call the police quite often asking them to do “well being checks”. At least that’s what they call them on my police scanner. I listen to the Cook County cops a lot…
And you probably didn’t need the true life story either, did you? 