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To: marktwain

DO NOT EVER call 911 to ask a question.

911 will always trigger an armed response and in most cases must result in an arrest, as in domestic disturbance.

So who do you call. We are so conditioned to use 911 that nobody has a clue of any other number to call.

There are many times that cell phone calls to 911 can not even get an live person on the phone, only an automated GPS directed police action (to the geographic coordinates the cell towers triangulate).

Unless someone’s life is in immediate and imminent danger, avoid 911.


26 posted on 09/24/2010 6:30:39 AM PDT by George from New England (Escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England

I called 911 when a dog attacked my pet chickens! I was hysterical at the time and the 911 operator calmly told me to hang up and she’d call animal control, which she did. I imagine she has quite a story to tell to this day. Ha! Bless her for being so kind, though.


50 posted on 09/24/2010 7:20:38 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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