[lowbridge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IeVxeg4mgI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BTwAZz1h4w

[lowbridge]

bump

[originalbuckeye]

Simply appalling. How much training do these 911 operators get?? Why would she ever think that the man who called 911 was the bad guy??

[tgusa]

Moral of the story: pump off a round into the ceiling, then tell the 911 operator to forget the police, just send the meat wagon from the morgue. The cops will get there in a hurry.

[gunservative]

That 911 operator needs to be fired.

[txroadkill]

Many years ago we had a problem with our dispatchers, for some reason they decided to start making judgment calls too. We had to assign an officer to dispatch to put an end to it. What eventually happened is 3 of them decided they didn't need someone telling them how to do their jobs so they filed a “group complaint”. Long story short, the people that replaced them worked out nicely.

[sockmonkey]

Good Grief, this business owner needs to relocate to Texas.

[BigCinBigD]

Ping.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm not a nice person, but I would have THUMPed! about the time between the second and third command to get on the ground.

But I'm not a nice person.

Citizen action is NOT appreciated by local constabulary.

/johnny

[JSteff]

Always remember, the police are not under any obligation, constitutionally or otherwise, to protect you.

SCOTUS has ruled so, and the police association lawyers have fought hard to keep it that way.

[garyhope]

S S S

[Ken H]

There is a saying, "To err is human, but it takes a computer to really foul things up."

Stories like this lead me to conclude that's being unfair to the computer.

[muir_redwoods]

When seconds count, 911 will be there in minutes

[Tired of Taxes]

"This has opened my eyes to how bad the 911 system is when calling from a cell phone," he told me.

Yep. Apparently, the dispatcher lied to this guy when she said she was sending the police. I had a similar experience when I called 911 from a cell phone once during "an incident."

I quickly told them what was happening and gave them my location and the license plate numbers of the people who'd blocked me in. They told me they would send local police. No one came. Luckily, the fact that I was on the line with the police chased off the guy who was threatening me. But, I had to call a second time from my home phone inside my house before the police finally came. The 911 I called from my cell phone never passed the license plate numbers to the local police, either.

[Balding_Eagle]

Seems to me that the best thing to do is to say, without malice, “I’ve got my hands full here, he’s making moves to attack me, I fear for my life, I’ve got to give this my full attention”. Then hang up.

[Adams]

6 minutes is LIGHT SPEED compared to the 30 minutes it took the LAPD to come when our home was invaded in 1992.

[VeniVidiVici]

Sorry. But if she started in on me like that I’d have hung up on her. Name, address, cops, click.

[Tunehead54]

Reminder bump!