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Posted on 05/18/2026 12:44:29 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin Flashback: 911 operator hung up on a mother who called three times because her child wasn’t breathing. Later, police walked up to the console and arrested the operator. “Ma’am, step away from the console.” “Excuse me, I’m working.” “We need you to come with us.” “What is this about?” “You’re being arrested for hanging up on emergency callers.” “For what? I didn’t do anything.” “A mother called 911 three times because her child stopped breathing. You hung up on her three times.” “I just didn’t feel like working.” “You disconnected multiple emergency calls instead of sending help.” “You’re arresting me for that?” “Yes ma’am. Turn around and place your hands behind your back.” Investigators say the operator intentionally disconnected hundreds of emergency calls, including reports of robberies, assaults, and medical emergencies. In one case, a mother reportedly called three times about her child not breathing, but the calls were disconnected before help could be dispatched. The child later died. People dial 911 expecting life-saving help. Instead, some callers were allegedly hung up on. Image
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The Simpsons did make it a joke, once.
Policeman answers an apparent question: “mmmm, no. This is 91...2”
“The 911 operator had to have the address. She insisted she had to have the address.”
In spite of the very small town, and what would be obvious to any 911 operator for the town, the operator who got the call, ignored logic and insisted on trying to go “by the book” - “what’s the address?”.
Arguing with the dispatcher is stupidity and time wasting
Estimate the age and quit obstructing. Find out why you need to tell them later.
“911 dispatchers ask for a person’s age to immediately determine the severity of the emergency, provide specific pre-arrival medical instructions, and help first responders prepare the correct equipment. Age directly dictates normal vital signs, potential underlying conditions, and the protocol for life-saving interventions.Knowing the age helps dispatchers and responders in the following ways:Triage and Medical Interventions: Emergency medical dispatch protocols are highly age-specific. CPR, choking treatments, and medication dosages are drastically different for an infant compared to an adult.Prioritizing Police Response: For certain crimes or incidents, the age of the victim (such as very young children or the elderly) can automatically elevate the urgency or require specialized units to be dispatched.”
Nonsense.
1. The book definition is defeated by its own language, by which that language is less specific about “age” than if the victim is an adult, a child or an infant. The caller had said the victim was a “man”, not a “boy” and not a “child or even an infant”, which was clear enough satisfaction for the rule book. Answering the man’s “age” was going to do zip, zilch, nada in the EMT’s preparations.
2. No one argued with the 911 dispatcher. She was only told, curtly, it does not matter with a repeat of the scene and the circumstances.
3. By the way, the EMT outfit rewarded her for her call. The 911 outfit said nothing.
“911 dispatchers ask for a person’s age to immediately determine the severity of the emergency”
More rule book B.S.
A clear description of the scene and the circumstances - which the 911 operator got - did enough to identify the severity of the circumstances, no matter the victim’s specific “age”.
“Age directly dictates normal vital signs, potential underlying conditions, and the protocol for life-saving interventions”
EMT workers determine that at the scene and do not require it from the 911 operator BECAUSE 9 times out of 10 the caller does not have or know the victims age, or underlying conditions.
“Age directly dictates normal vital signs, potential underlying conditions, and the protocol for life-saving interventions”
EMT workers determine that at the scene and do not require it from the 911 operator BECAUSE 9 times out of 10 the caller does not have or know the victims age, or underlying conditions.
“CPR, choking treatments, and medication dosages are drastically different for an infant compared to an adult.”
Again, always determined at the scene by the EMT folks, and irrelevant when the facts given to the 911 operator have identified it is not a “choking victim”.
“For certain crimes or incidents, the age of the victim (such as very young children or the elderly) can automatically elevate the urgency or require specialized units to be dispatched.”
Again irrelevant under the circumstances as relayed to the 911 operator.
Obstructing?
I’m sorry. That’s a hard stop. It’s an emergency. Am I supposed to know all the details before they send someone out?
Ridiculous on its face.
I guess it’s better to have a few dead people because the emergency folks didn’t know all the details.
I had a friend’s mom die from stab wounds from an intruder. Age mattered not.
I was thinking the same. Had the feel of something made up to bait racists into the open.
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