Stop Misusing 911!

Current Events – Stop Misusing 911!

Current Events
For those of you who don’t know, 911 is NOT the telephone number to the police department.  911 is NOT the number to your own personal valet, Superman or savior. 911 is the emergency hotline for EMERGENCIES ONLY!!!

Apparently, many dysfunctional Americans are completely clueless to the concept of 911, and have been using it for everything under the sun other than what it is intended for.  This has to stop people, since your nonsensical calls are blocking actual life and death emergency calls.

Current Events
Here are a few of the most bizarre calls to 911:

A recent cable outage in Fairfield, CT during airing of the television drama “Breaking Bad” prompted a plethora of calls from irate TV viewers asking 911 operators to intercede.

Clarksville, TN, resident Hee Orama, was so angry that her boyfriend wouldn’t propose and walk her down the aisle to the altar, that she repeatedly called police to complain.  Even after being told that her single status did not qualify as an emergency, she kept calling — until police arrested her.

A Georgia man was arrested after calling 911 to report that 1 of the 7 McDoubles he ordered at McDonald’s was missing. Lorenzo Riggins said “I left out the store without checking it, but when I got to my truck and I got ready to leave I looked in the bag and come to find out I had but 6 McDoubles.” Confronting the McDonald’s employee, Riggins says he was given “attitude,” which he believed was all the reason he needed to call 911. When police arrived, Riggins was arrested and spent the night in jail.  “I didn’t know I was mis-using 911,” he said.

A New Hampshire woman was arrested when she couldn’t locate a writing instrument in her home. “I just want a simple thing,” the woman told the Hooksett Police dispatcher. “A pen.” 

“You want a pen?” the dispatcher asked on the 911 recording. “You dialed 911 because you want a pen? What makes this an emergency?? You do realize that it’s definitely not an emergency. You’re dialing 911, you are tying up a 911 line, so you’re tying up people who actually have emergencies because you need a pen.”

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As a public service, OK WASSUP! wants you all to know: 911 is for EMERGENCIES ONLY!  If you’re having a heart attack, call 911.  If someone has broken into your home, call 911.  If you’re in a life and death situation, call 911.  But if your favorite TV show isn’t on, if your bag doesn’t contain all the hamburgers you expected, or if you can’t find a pen in your home, DO NOT CALL 911!!!