# Q **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117 "2005-09-17T16:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/1 "2005-09-17T16:55:00Z")
So this morning I’m sitting watching TV when through a partially open window I hear some woman screaming like she’s auditioning for Fay Wray’s part in a remake of King Kong. Scared the bejeebers out of me. So I call 911 and tell them some neighbor is outside screaming like they’re being dismembered. When they ask why, I have to say I don’t know because there’s a six foot fence. It went on long enough for me to run out front and hear them screaming “No! No! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!” and then run out back to find it’s still going on, so that’s when I make the 911 call. So a few minutes later the Sheriff shows up and they stay ten minutes a few doors down and then leave. So what’s the end of the story? Beats me. No ambulance comes. No choppers or swat teams. No FEMA. So now I get to sit around all day wondering what the hell was going on. If this was someone’s idea of a joke, I didn’t find it particularly funny. Now the 911 operators will probably never take a call coming from my house seriously again. I hope no actual wolves ever show up… ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/2 "2005-09-17T16:56:57Z")
Don’t ask me what happened to my thread title either. I guess this just isn’t my day. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/3 "2005-09-17T17:01:33Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > No FEMA. Wait five days. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/4 "2005-09-17T17:25:07Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > So this morning I’m sitting watching TV when through a partially open window I hear some woman screaming like she’s auditioning for Fay Wray’s part in a remake of King Kong. Scared the bejeebers out of me. So I call 911 and tell them some neighbor is outside screaming like they’re being dismembered. When they ask why, I have to say I don’t know because there’s a six foot fence. It went on long enough for me to run out front and hear them screaming “No! No! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!” and then run out back to find it’s still going on, so that’s when I make the 911 call. So a few minutes later the Sheriff shows up and they stay ten minutes a few doors down and then leave. So what’s the end of the story? Beats me. No ambulance comes. No choppers or swat teams. No FEMA. So now I get to sit around all day wondering what the hell was going on. If this was someone’s idea of a joke, I didn’t find it particularly funny. Now the 911 operators will probably never take a call coming from my house seriously again. I hope no actual wolves ever show up… If you were able to determine the direction the sound came from, why not go knock on your neighbors’ doors, and make sure everything is okay? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/5 "2005-09-17T19:40:13Z")
Yeah, I hate it when my neighbors are tortured by omnipotent transdimensional alien beings. (Seriously confused by the thread title) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/6 "2005-09-17T19:51:25Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > If you were able to determine the direction the sound came from, why not go knock on your neighbors’ doors, and make sure everything is okay? Bad idea, if it’s a domestic violence situation, that puts you next in line to get beat on. Best to let the police/EMTs deal with the situation. If you can clearly see something like a huge rattler poised to strike and you happen to have a rake handy that’s a different matter. I might go so far as to try to get in a position to see over the fence to better report to the 911 operator what is going on, as in “An old lady is on her back, and she seems to be in a lot of pain, she is making no attempt to get up, and is clutching her hip”. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/7 "2005-09-17T19:52:04Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > If you were able to determine the direction the sound came from, why not go knock on your neighbors’ doors, and make sure everything is okay? Call me crazy, but going into an unknown, quite possibly dangerous situation when people are already screaming their heads off doesn’t strike me as the greatest idea ever unless you’re, y’know, Batman or something. Just calling 911 is more than a lot of people would do. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/8 "2005-09-17T21:08:45Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Wait five days. I’m sending you a bill for the cost of cleaning the shirt I just spat grape juice onto when I read your post. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/9 "2005-09-17T21:58:20Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > Call me crazy, but going into an unknown, quite possibly dangerous situation when people are already screaming their heads off doesn’t strike me as the greatest idea ever unless you’re, y’know, Batman or something. Just calling 911 is more than a lot of people would do. My sentiments exactly. I’d hate to think someone was being murdered and I couldn’t even have been bothered to pickup up the phone and dial 3 numbers. But, since the Sheriff came and left almost immediately I can only surmise that someone must have seen a very large spider or Tammy Fae Mesner or something. As to the thread title, Q was not what I typed. Honestly. The hamsters must have been having some fun with me. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/10 "2005-09-17T22:05:27Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Bad idea, if it’s a domestic violence situation, that puts you next in line to get beat on. I second that emotion. I seem to remember a case in Colorado where a guy was attacking his wife/girlfriend in a parking garage. A stranger tried to protect her and got killed for his trouble. Unless the person getting the beat down is a loved one, I’m not jumping in. Then again, being a petite female, I’m not sure how much good I could do without a weapon anyway… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q/322117/11 "2005-09-18T03:52:06Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > \As to the thread title, Q was not what I typed. Honestly. The hamsters must have been having some fun with me. Where you watching Star Trek TNG while typing? Maybe “The Q” was having fun with you… 😃