Emergency Professionals Are Revealing The Dumbest Calls They Received From People Who Believed They Were In A HUGE Crisis

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Calling 911 means you usually person an emergency, but sometimes radical telephone for the strangest, non-emergency reasons. So erstwhile Reddit idiosyncratic Canyoustealmytoast asked: "911/999 dispatchers, what’s the dumbest crushed idiosyncratic has ever called exigency services?" truthful galore radical shared their hilarious stories below:

1. "I was visiting my parent (age 96), and she reported maine (age 68) to 911 arsenic a missing kid due to the fact that I hadn't gotten backmost by dark."

—LowellStewart

2. "My favourite is the 1 wherever the woman dialed successful from a Wendy's drive-thru due to the fact that they wouldn't merchantability her a Whopper."

3. "Not precisely a dumb reason, but person you ever heard of a reverse 911 call? They tin seemingly telephone you if you’re successful a geographic area. Anyway, a buddy of excavation is sitting successful a gathering with similar 10 people, and a motortruck carrying nitric acerb crashes similar a 1/4 mile from them. Buddy’s telephone lights up, and it’s '911.' They each laughed, reasoning idiosyncratic managed to spoof 911, until idiosyncratic else’s telephone rang with the aforesaid caller ID. They picked up and were told to evacuate immediately."

4. "A feline erstwhile called during a powerfulness outage to inquire what the people of the USA vs Canada golden medal Olympic crippled was. I'm Canadian. Obviously, I told him."

5. "Someone called to study their neighbors dropping pebbles into their lawn. Not rocks, pebbles into her pebbled driveway. Turns retired it wasn’t happening, and she had really been harassing them for months, and they had proof, and she really got arrested due to the fact that it escalated truthful overmuch that she attacked the cop."

"The bull asked wherefore they hadn’t reported it yet, and they fundamentally said, 'We are diligent people, and we similar evidence.' She got retired connected bail, but past it escalated adjacent further aft she got out, and she got arrested again."

—reineluxe

6. "When I was moving dispatch, I virtually had idiosyncratic telephone the 911 exigency enactment saying, 'I'm a tourer and bored successful your town. I don't person capable wealth for a edifice either. What tin you do?' I was conscionable like, 'Sir... that's not an emergency.'"

7. "An American tourer complained that the food successful the water weren't biting, and by God, helium paid a batch of wealth for this trip."

8. "A 3 a.m. telephone successful the mediate of nowhere. (A 30-minute effect clip for my poor, sleeping crew). They had bony symptom for 2 years. When asked wherefore helium chose that nonstop infinitesimal to call, helium said, 'Just felt similar it was time.'"

9. "One of my neighbors connected my level had an Amazon bundle stolen and was knocking connected people's doors asking tenants if they had taken it. She knocked connected my door, and contempt my denial, she insisted connected coming into my flat to look around. I refused her petition to hunt my apartment, and she called 911, telling them I stole her package. I don't deliberation the dispatcher/police cared adjacent if I really did bargain it due to the fact that they told her they weren't coming. Turns retired the neighbor's bundle was delivered 1 level beneath her unit, lol."

—the_chin2

10. "So I placed the 911 call. I was young, I don't retrieve however young. But I hid nether the structure plaything and called 911 due to the fact that my grandparents tried to get maine to devour a blistery dog."

11. "An aged woman called to kick that a random antheral didn't clasp the doorway unfastened for her."

12. "Retired bull here. A pistillate utilized to telephone similar 4 oregon 5 times a week due to the fact that of a shade successful her attic. I was inactive successful grooming astatine the time, and my grooming serviceman was an old, salty sergeant who was hired the twelvemonth I was calved and was with me. He knew the code instantly and virtually said, 'Fuck this, this is ending today,' and helium directed maine to propulsion into a Dollar General. He walks retired with a mason jar that helium bought. We get astatine the location and conscionable the lady. He tells her, 'We're going to hole your shade occupation today!' We spell up, shuffle astir a bit, and helium lights a cigarette. Blows the fume into the jar and puts the lid on. We spell backmost downstairs, and helium proudly shows her the jar. 'We got him!' She was beaming. Never heard from her again."

13. "She called and requested to talk to 1 of the bushed officers. I couldn't nonstop him implicit blindly, truthful I told her I had to archer him thing oregon helium wouldn't go. She believed her trader gave her meth and wanted the serviceman to corroborate what it was. She wasn't trying to get hooked connected that 'crazy shit.'"

—travnikoff

14. "The municipality had precocious installed a 'Deer Crossing' motion astatine a large intersection. A pistillate called successful to kick due to the fact that radical 'fly down that road,' and she did not deliberation that was an due spot for the cervid to cross."

15. "I got yelled astatine erstwhile due to the fact that nary 1 turned connected the Northern Lights."

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