18-04-2005 21:03									#1
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Did anyone see this on the news?
Apparently, some woman called 911 cause her 12 year old daughter was being unruly. The dispatcher jokingly said, “OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7492902/?GT1=6428

Did the 911 dispatcher behave unprofessionally? And who calls 911 cause their kid is misbehaving?

	18-04-2005 21:08									#2
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Eh, their job is to provide help, not entertainment. The guy should've been reprimanded, what shouldn't have happened, however, is this nothing story becoming national news.

	18-04-2005 21:10									#3
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Wow, it must be a real slow news day.

	18-04-2005 21:23									#4
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Lolz news!!@

	18-04-2005 21:35									#5
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What exactly did she want the cops to do?

	18-04-2005 21:38									#6
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I'm guessing that the one about the woman calling 911 because Harveys wouldn't put what she wanted in her hamburger has already been posted?

	18-04-2005 21:41									#7
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Personally I think he should have hung up on her after mocking her.

Richelieu: I thought it was Burger King.

	18-04-2005 21:42									#8
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911 operators should NOt be making jokes. What the guy needed to do is tell the woman that she should contact her local precinct directly, and maybe even given her the number, than moved on cause that sure as hell was not a 911 emergency.

	18-04-2005 21:43									#9
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little joke

	18-04-2005 21:43									#10
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc What exactly did she want the cops to do?

Scare her kids.

	18-04-2005 21:44									#11
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Personally I think he should have hung up on her after mocking her. Richelieu: I thought it was Burger King.

BK makes more sense actually.*


Please use this post in context only.

	18-04-2005 21:49									#12
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quote: Originally posted by GePap 911 operators should NOt be making jokes.

Why not? Personally, I'd just hang up on them to clear the line for real emergencies but I can understand the impulse when someone calls in obviously wasting your time.

	18-04-2005 21:51									#13
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911 can make jokes in the office, but should not be doing it online- at the least, its a waste of their time. As for hanging up, that would also be wrong.

Man, lets keep you far way from a 911 dispatch post.

	18-04-2005 21:53									#14
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Why would it be wrong?

quote: Man, lets keep you far way from a 911 dispatch post.

I wouldn't want the job anyway.

	18-04-2005 22:04									#15
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So what do we have here, a mother unable to deal with a child and a dispatcher unable to deal with her situation

Both behaved unprofessionally I'd be tempted to conclude.

The executive should imprison the mother, her child, the father, their whole family and the dispatcher alltogether

	18-04-2005 22:08									#16
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what about the dog?

	18-04-2005 22:16									#17
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Is it able to call 911?

	18-04-2005 22:18									#18
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Btw, I just noticed the "funny" coincidence between 9/11 and 911

	18-04-2005 22:18									#19
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Most propably

	18-04-2005 22:18									#20
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Why would it be wrong?

To hang up? Because the person called for a reason, even if a very poor one-who knows how such a situation might escalate and turn into a real problem. So at the very least, give the person some possibly helpful info quickly, then get off the line to wait for a more pressing call. That way, the dispatcher did all they honestly could while being ready for the next call. At the least, it covers one's ass.

quote: wouldn't want the job anyway.

Well, good.

	18-04-2005 22:34									#21
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I think it's for people like GePap (you know, molehill-to-mountain transformation artists) whom stories like this are written for.

	18-04-2005 22:36									#22
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Yeah, cause I am the one making threads about non-issues....

	18-04-2005 22:41									#23
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I've already given Diplo a bit of hell about starting this thread, the news networks for promoting and running the story, now I'm just giving it to you for actually debating the stupid issue.

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	18-04-2005 23:43									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Atahualpa Btw, I just noticed the "funny" coincidence between 9/11 and 911

Just?

If it happened on the 12th of September we woule be remembering Sept. 12, not 9/12.

ACK!

	18-04-2005 23:50									#25
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to the dispatcher

if you can't laugh at the holocaust/tsunami/etc., what can you laugh at?

but more seriously, my give a **** is about as broken as dino's usually is.

	18-04-2005 23:56									#26
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it's not like it's a life or death situation.

	19-04-2005 02:30									#27
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Did they shoot her?

	19-04-2005 03:09									#28
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[QUOTE] Originally posted by Tuberski


Just?

If it happened on the 12th of September we woule be remembering Sept. 12, not 9/12.

ACK! [/QUOTE

yes but 912 is not the number for emergency calls, no? It happened on 9/11 because you had to dial 911 to get help

	19-04-2005 04:30									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed to the dispatcher if you can't laugh at the holocaust/tsunami/etc., what can you laugh at?

Hmm, maybe things that are funnier? I can think of a lot of things that are funnier than the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people. But maybe that's just me.

	19-04-2005 04:32									#30
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Q's just being a low grade troll. I can recognize my kin.