What’s false is:
The post “gives the impression that asking for a pepperoni pizza is somehow a ‘secret code’ to the 9-1-1 operator,” LAPD said on Twitter. “That is false. Operators are trained to recognize voice inflection, odd conversations that would indicate a dangerous situation, among other things.”
The problem with the isolated cases in the links is that they’re numerators. What’s the denominator? In other words, how often was this tried, but unsuccessfully, and … with what outcome or consequence? Could it make a horrible situation even worse?
I feel like this isn’t a casual conversation on the Dope – the relative merits of Spanish vs. Hungarian Paprika.
This kind of thing can have serious consequences … to other people.
Also, the hand signal … done three times … seems to imply that the person using the hand signal is in the South American country of Guyana:
This seems to explain the ‘standard’ method well:
IMHO, we should view this kind of topic the way we ought to view chiming in on medical inquiries: very carefully and ensuring we have our facts straight.
Being right is better than a post hoc ‘disclaimer,’ IMHO.