5 Horrifying Tales of 911 Incompetence

[SandEagle]

http://www.cracked.com/article...-911-incompetence.html


every single one of the dispatchers should have been fired. some of its funny as long as its not you making that call 🙂

 

[nageov3t]

a couple years back, someone in the town where my parents live got murdered while pounding on the police department doors 😱

 

[Farang]

Newsflash: 911 dispatchers are people too.

 

[AstroManLuca]

This is one reason why I own a gun.

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

I have more than one reason for owning a gun. Many more.

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

You sound sulky. I hear shooting guns is great therapy. 😀

 

[Kev]

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[FP]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

You sound sulky. I hear shooting guns is great therapy. 😀

I love guns. I support our right to own the majority of them. I just think it was a really lame comment. He owns a gun because of some bad 911 operators? How are the two even correlated? So if 911 operators were better he would sell his guns and feel more safe? Likewise if we had no 911 service would he feel more safe if you own one of these?

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

You sound sulky. I hear shooting guns is great therapy. 😀

I love guns. I support our right to own the majority of them. I just think it was a really lame comment. He owns a gun because of some bad 911 operators? How are the two even correlated? So if 911 operators were better he would sell his guns and feel more safe? Likewise if we had no 911 service would he feel more safe if you own one of these?

No, he owns a gun because the response to emergency is not always immediate, and in some cases, completely absent.

 

[rh71]

#3 chick was cute.

 

[cjvon]

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

You sound sulky. I hear shooting guns is great therapy. 😀

I love guns. I support our right to own the majority of them. I just think it was a really lame comment. He owns a gun because of some bad 911 operators? How are the two even correlated? So if 911 operators were better he would sell his guns and feel more safe? Likewise if we had no 911 service would he feel more safe if you own one of these?

Take the sleeping 911 operator call for instance. When someone taps on my windows they hear a shotgun being racked. Nine times out of eleven the tapping will stop due to the very distinct sound created by racking a shotgun.

FYI this has happened to me IRL minus the 911 call.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: rh71
#3 chick was cute.

I grew up in that city.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

You sound sulky. I hear shooting guns is great therapy. 😀

I love guns. I support our right to own the majority of them. I just think it was a really lame comment. He owns a gun because of some bad 911 operators? How are the two even correlated? So if 911 operators were better he would sell his guns and feel more safe? Likewise if we had no 911 service would he feel more safe if you own one of these?

No, he owns a gun because the response to emergency is not always immediate, and in some cases, completely absent.

Also, notice the way I phrased my sentence.

"This is one reason why I own a gun." I guess people have to be beaten over the head with it. Would it make more sense if I had said, "This is one of many reasons why I own a gun"?

There are many. One is that emergency services are not always immediate and 100% reliable. Another is that it's just a fun hobby to shoot.

Also, I have always voted Democrat.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

You sound sulky. I hear shooting guns is great therapy. 😀

I love guns. I support our right to own the majority of them. I just think it was a really lame comment. He owns a gun because of some bad 911 operators? How are the two even correlated? So if 911 operators were better he would sell his guns and feel more safe? Likewise if we had no 911 service would he feel more safe if you own one of these?

you're a little on the slow side, aren't you?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Funny article, but I am so god damn fucking sick of this "2 pages for a 5-item list" bullshit that every second website is pulling.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: Farang
Newsflash: 911 dispatchers are people too.

#3 shouldnt be any longer. that fucker was out of line.

 

[rezinn]

None of those are really horrifying.

 

[Ballatician]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Funny article, but I am so god damn fucking sick of this "2 pages for a 5-item list" bullshit that every second website is pulling.

ME TOO

Forbes is pretty bad about this too. I just refuse to read some of their lists.

 

[Cabages]

#3 went way too far.

IMO worse than 2 or 1.

1 was just weird.

 

[Number1]

Originally posted by: Farang
Newsflash: 911 dispatchers are people too.

:thumbsup:

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: FP

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
This is one reason why I own a gun.

And you are one reason why I voted democrat.

and you are one reason why i vote republican more and more.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Funny article, but I am so god damn fucking sick of this "2 pages for a 5-item list" bullshit that every second website is pulling.

double the ad revenue, what is not to like? it's going to be 10 pages later on, 5 picture page, 5 text page 😀

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: Farang
Newsflash: 911 dispatchers are people too.

#3 shouldnt be any longer. that fucker was out of line.

If I were trying to get help for my father, having a seizure on the floor and some prick pulled that on me, I'd be tempted to do the same thing as she did... show up at the police station. The exception being that I would be there to burn the place to the ground.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I remember when the #1 thing happened.

I thought it was a hilarious joke. I mean, the mom calls 911 because she can't control her daughter, and the operator makes his joke.

I got a laugh. I should send him a letter of commendation to offset the letters of reprimand he got.

The only really bad one was the operator that hung up on the woman getting beaten.