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. Your location: It sounds ridiculous, but any doubt about your location will slow things down. Be clear, especially if you're calling 911 on a mobile phone. The dispatcher might not be able to use your phone to find you, so it's especially important to know where you are and where the person who needs help is located.
Michelle watched helplessly as her baby was cut from her womb. Dynel had told people that she was pregnant and used Craigslist to fish for a victim to provide her proof: an unborn child. Holding on for her life, Michelle reaches for the phone and calls 911. Listen to the actual phone call: HERE. 911 Incidents. This page is designed as a hazard and traffic avoidance warning system, and is NOT meant as an avenue to obtain police reports or to use for statistical analysis. Contents of the webpage are not archived. Please do not call 911 or the ECD offices with inquires regarding current or past entries on this website. Last Updated 4/18.
What you need: Do you need an ambulance, the fire department, or a police officer? Say it up front. In many places around the country (and around the world) the people who answer your 911 call might not be the folks who will ultimately be sending what you need.
Often, the police department will answer 911 initially, but then transfer the call to a medical dispatch center once they figure out you are having a medical emergency.
New jeans problemsOnce we had a young woman call 911 around 2am saying that her legs were turning blue. Turns out she had worn a new pair of jeans to the club that night.— That’s not what 9-1-1 is for6:30 Christmas morning. 9-1-1 goes off. What’s your emergency?”Breathless, panicky voice “How do I get the cranberry sauce out of the can without it coming out in chunks?”“Open the other end and slide it out on a plate.”“OH! You are brilliant!”I wasn’t considered so brilliant once I had to dispatch an officer over there to educate her on proper 9-1-1 usage. Merry Christmas, here’s your citation.— But the poor deer!Caller: A deer just swam across the river behind my house.Me: Okay?Caller: Well I am worried it might be cold.Me.Well there is nothing we can do about a deer being cold. Didn’t it run off after swinning the river?Caller: Yes.Me: Well ma’am it’s a wild animal and I’d guess it’s going to be fine.Caller: ok—We had an old woman call in and say there was two guys dress in blue trying to break in her house and rape her.
So we send about 6 cops over to her house. It turns out it was the gas company reading her gas meter.— “I’m not crazy”I have been in the 911 biz for over 22 years. If a caller starts the call with “I swear I’m not crazy” then you need to buckle up for some insanity.A guy started a call with those words after escaping from his apartment and running to the closest 7-11. He swore that his roommates were turning into giant crabs. The was going to show the officers that they were currently in giant cocoons transforming.
As you might expect he was tripping balls.— Omg it’s a squirrelMy mom works as a 911 operator. She got a call one time from a girl in gym class at the local high school. She was in a panic and completely serious saying there was a squirrel on top of a telephone pole at the school and it wasn’t coming down.— Don’t throw pizza at people, kids.Had a drunk person call to report he was being harassed. He was being arrested by our officers for throwing pizza at people. My mom is a 911 operator, she gets some insanely stupid calls. I remember a few years ago, there was a huge pileup involving several cars and fatalities. Clearly it caused miles of traffic.
A woman called 911, insisting that she get escorted out of the traffic by a trooper, because she “had to get home”, and it was “ridiculous that she should be stuck like that”. Like, people are dead, lady, sorry you’re not gonna make it home for Jeopardy.And before anybody asks – no, she had no medical condition, unless you count delusions of grandeur— THEY R GONNA CHARGE ME FOR RANCHMy top few:. girl (approx 25 yrs old) called 911 because they were going to charge her 50 cents for ranch dressing. When I showed up the owner (who I knew because I eat there all the time at work) was totally confused. Then he laughed and said, “we change everyone extra for ranch” to which the girl responded by breaking down in tears.
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I told her I’d pay for it if she would just leave and the owner just let her take it. Obviously, she was having some sort of terrible day and just lost it. She left w the ranch dressing.
Didn’t thank anyone. guy called because neighbors were using their own BBQ in their own backyard and the smoke was coming into his kitchen window.
He did not think he should have to close his window. He did not talk to his neighbor before contacting police. I told him he should talk with his neighbor or shut his window. Clearly they don’t get along. guy called because there was “an aggressive squirrel next to his car” and he couldn’t get in. Squirrel left before we got there.
(in southern California – beach city) guy called said there was a bear in his backyard. It was an opossum. Not even that big.
Regular sized, rat-looking opossum. guy called because he put meth pipe into his butt and lost it inside. Probably not unreasonable to call, but really funny and awkward.
He went to the hospital. One of my favorite calls.— Ma’am that’snot a crime.
Had a woman call 911 because she saw someone driving down the road with his foot out the window. She was following him the whole time, and admitted he had his seatbelt on, wasn’t texting or speeding, he just had his foot out the window.She wanted the police to pull him over, to which I had to explain he wasn’t breaking any laws.She couldn’t comprehend that driving with your foot out the window is not illegal, and proceeded to hang up on me, then call 911 again because apparently I didn’t know the law and she NEEDED someone to stop this man. We connected her to a deputy who told her if she didn’t stop calling 911 for stupid reasons he was going to ticket her for abuse of emergency communications.Also had one a couple of years ago where a dad called to ask for an ambulance because his 17 yr old daughter had a candle stuck up her anus.
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He tried to explain that she said she had gotten out of the shower and slipped and fell “butthole first” onto the candle Medics said they found KY jelly with the candle so I think we all know what was going on there. Lots of stupid here!. Guy calling to argue that his crystal meth is legal because he made it with store-brought products with his own hard-earned money. Entitled rich brat demanding an officer drive her back home because she spent her travel money partying; she felt since her father was a well-known surgeon, and a “higher taxpayer” she should get a break and get a ride. I told her no and hung up on her. Woman calling to ask where she can get a paternity test done.
I was confused and asked her, to clarify, if she was needing to determine who the father of a child was, she’d have to maybe contact a clinic. She wanted to know how can she find out if she was the mother of someone who claimed she gave birth to them. No mental illness, no hysterical pregnancy, she was just dumb. We had an Amber Alert go out; guy stabbed the mother of his children and took the kids. Man calls to complain that the Alert is interrupting his TV and that the father should be left alone because he’s doing a good thing to be with his kids. Woman calling to complain that her McDonald’s triple thick milkshake isn’t thick. Had a woman get so angry about kids playing outside on their ATVs and bikes, on their family’s property, in the middle of the day in the summer, that she had a stroke.
She’s ranting and raving and then all of a sudden, she’s speaking slowly and her words are slurred and she’s groaning It was a weird thing to happen but she didn’t need to be so damn angry over something like that. Sheesh. Another woman calling, terrified, whispering into the phone. Says she’s locked in a closet with her kids. I’m thinking a home invasion robbery, and as soon as I get her address, I slam the call in and get ready to start updating quickly. “Why was she huddled in her closet, terrified and on the verge of tears, milkcustard?” Glad you asked.
This woman saw a mouse in her house and was terrified and didn’t know what to do because her husband was deployed, so she wanted an officer to come out and take care of the mouse for her. An officer went out and did. Your tax dollars at work!— d. Once took a call from a guy who had found an ‘unusual rock’ on the side of the road. Apparently he had turned it over to what were city employees or road workers of some kind (the fellow was obviously quite intoxicated), but now he wanted it back. And it was an emergency, as the rock was obviously an relic of some kind that was worth thousands, as it had an impression of some kind of bone or shell in the side of it!
At any rate, I managed to convince him that if he didn’t know who he had turned it over to, then we could not track down the rock, and that searching for this person was definitely not a police matter as it was given voluntarily to them, as he had said earlier on the recorded line. Hardly a marvel of a story, but it was certainly one of the dumbest reasons I had ever heard to call 911 in my time as an operator.— This is wild.Ex-911 operator. Worked in the midwest. Lots of your garden variety daily dumb calls, but this is next level stupid. Story goes a little something like this.“911, what is the location of your emergency?”“Uhh address.
Sigh So I’m not really sure if this is an emergency. Ugh this is so embarrassing, I’m sorry. I uh I answered an ad on Craigslist for some services, you know, with a woman”And somehow this ends in you dialing 911 at 1am?“ and I answered the ad that said ‘send me what you got,’ so I sent her — sigh — you know, some pictures. I got a reply that oh my god that said I had sent these photos to his daughter who was sixteen. I didn’t know!
I really didn’t know, I think maybe someone put her number there as a joke, you know?”“Right, okay. So you want to speak with an officer? What’s your name?”“Well I don’t I don’t wanna say my name and get in trouble or anything. I’m just worried that this needs to be brought to someone’s attention and get it out there, you know?”You’re on a recorded line with all of your information on our computer, homie, but proceed.I transfer the call to the on duty Sgt, hoping he’ll open up to another dude. He does, and then the truth erupts into a twisted tale of a love trapezoid straight out of an M. Night Shyamalan diary.
It turns out the caller wasn’t a child predator at all. He was just a horny kid on the prowl for some very legal kitty. A particular ad from a woman in a city called Hooker (shit you not) claiming to be 25 years old piqued – among other things – his interest, and he dutifully complied to the demand for cock shots.
A brief time later he was textually accosted by a reasonably enraged man claiming to be the father of the alleged juvenile. Homeboy apologizes profusely and attempts to explain the situation by sending “Daddy” a link to the ad in question. Presumably followed by the ordering of P90X and gathering of bail money.It is at this point the story takes a nosedive: “Daddy,” well isn’t. Daddy’s true identity becomes Hubby; his innocent little girl’s phone is actually the phone of his wife.
I believe it – most sixteen year olds haven’t been sexually dissatisfied long enough to turn to a Craigslist ad for “W4MM.”That’s Woman for Multiple Men, BTW.EDIT: To clarify. TL;DR kid thinks he sent dick pics to a child after seeing an ad on Craigslist asking for “multiple men.” Calls 911 when he receives text from man claiming to be father of child threatening violence and jail time. Investigation ensues, dick pic recipient is actually cheating ho wife from a city called Hooker.— “Wild Rabbit in my garden!”I was a 9-1-1 operator before computers so technology has changed a bit but people haven’t!Elderly caller: I need the police, there is a wild rabbit in my garden eating my garden vegetables. (I did not send anyone) and during some snowy weather residents were encouraged not to drive unless they had to.
We’re talking 4-5 inches of snownothing terrible. A woman called and said she had a green Toyota and wondered if it would be okay to drive. I gave a professional answer (and a gentle reminder about the use of 9-1-1)and then hung up and laughed saying, noonly blue Toyota’s and white Honda’s today!—.
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