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I saw a similar post to this on another site, and I found it really interesting. Have you ever had to call 911 or even just your local police department?
I've only ever called 911 twice and it was in about a two week span!
The first time I called it was because while walking to work I watched a car get cut off by the guy in front of him and his car literally flew into the air, turned on its side (the driver's side) and come crashing down into the middle of the intersection. The guy was fine but it was CRAZY. Like, right out of a movie.
The second time I called there was this jerk driving down the highway like a lunatic, tailgating other cars and then passing them, zigzagging across the highway even driving up the shoulder sometimes. It scared me so much and made me so angry that he was putting people's lives in danger that I wrote down his licence plate (my sis was driving), and his car details, and gave the police the info. I hope he was caught!
I called 911 once over the summer. My neighbor is the security guard/police officer for the apartment complex, and I saw him run out of his apartment at about 2:00am with his gun. I was scared he saw something, and thought I would call 911 in case he hadn't had a chance yet.
Patrol was there within 5 minutes, and turns out there was some sort of fight behind the building and someone drew a weapon.
I called 911 when my boss had to be rushed to the hospital. Thankfully they only kept me on hold for 3 mins while the person I was with was losing consciousness.
@roxy821: Whaaaat? That's terrible!
@Lindsay12.31.2010: OMG I'm glad your friend's OK. Swift thinking on your part.
it seems people can have amazing experiences with the police and some have just awful ones.
Yep--several times!
1) a car was on fire on the side of the road. there was nobody else around except the people who were in the car, so i called 911 as i was pulling over to see if i could help. fortunately someone else had called 911 before me and the fire truck showed up while i was on the phone.
2) i witnessed a drunk driver hit a guard rail, the car flipped completely over (while going probably 50mph), and my ex and i were right behind this and saw the whole thing. we called 911 and actually were involved in the case for months as witnesses because someone died.
3) a car ran a red light and smashed into another car. again, i was the next car back (by about 300 ft, i slammed on my breaks) so i stopped and called 911. the lady was hurt and VERY shaken up, but she asked me to help her get out of the car in case it caught on fire. again, i had to give a police report and she got my address from the report and sent me the nicest note (i still have it) for doing that.
4) i saw a drunk and/or homeless person in the park once and he looked like he was dead. i called 911--turns out he was sleeping. in my defense, my roommate did poke him with a stick to see if he was okay. he didn't move and looked like he had um, passed on...
yeah, i have a knack for witnessing crazy stuff.
I've called 911 twice in my life.
Once when I was in high school there was a woman at our front gate trying to get in. She was obviously high on something and my dad went out to talk to her and told me to call the police.
The second time I was driving down a major NY parkway after dark and there was an elderly lady in her bathrobe walking on the extremely narrow shoulder and no lights. There were no cars on the shoulder in sight so I called the cops to come and pick her up before she got hit.
I've had 911 called because of me once. I broke my arm very badly when I was in 5th grade playing in my back yard. I had to be transported to the hospital in an ambulance. They really go all out when you call 911. For my broken arm 2 firetrucks, a cop car, AND an ambulance showed up.
There was a party down the street with an In and Out burger truck so all the excess responders went there to get dinner.
@MsGolightly - It was scary! I was also home alone. We live in a really nice neighborhood, but every once in a while something random happens.
@MsGolightly: I've called *OPP (on a cell connects you directly to OPP rather then the emergency line) on people who were drinking and driving on the hwy. And I've called the local police for a noise complaint but never 911.
Once. A long time ago. My exBF in high school had his wisdom teeth taken out and didn't recoup well. We were at his parent's house and he said he was hungry. So we went downstairs to his kitchen. I went to get him something to eat, turned around and he had completely passed out. I yelled and shook him, but he wouldn't wake up or respond. It was TERRIFYING (especially when you're only 17!). Thankfully, his dad was home at the time. We called 911 and they showed up pretty quickly. He was fine... I guess it was just the meds that made him do that, but it was freakin' scary.
I had to call 911 when someone snatched my purse, also when I was in an auto accident.
I haven't, but about 6 years ago I did get a call from a 911 operator who said I had just called them and then proceeded to scold me about playing with phones. I had no record of the call on my phone or any idea what she was talking about. My mom was next to me the whole time since we were in the car and we were like WTF. It could have been a pocket dial since the 9 and 1 keys are never locked, but I would think that it would at least have a record in the call history of that. Anyone know?
Yeah, totally embarassing, but I did call 911 once over my dog.
Back in April, the apartment above us caught on fire, and a week after the fire, a lady was here to paint our apartment. Well, our screen door didn't have a lock, and I forgot to shut the big door. We were talking about what needed painted, and when I went to the kitchen, the door was wide open and I couldn't find Moose. I started running around the apartment looking for him and couldn't find him, so I grabbed his squeakie toy and went outside and started squeaking it and he wasn't coming, so the painter lady ran down the street looking for him and I called 911 bawling my eyes out and was like "My dog escaped and we can't find him!" and they transferred me to the police department. as soon as the police picked up, I saw the painter lady walking down the street and she was holding him in her arms. (He's a pembroke welsh corgi, only 15-20 lbs) and I apologized to the policeman and said we found him. Good thing our dog DOES go to people, and the neighbor saw him and gave him treats and stuff on the porch and held onto him til the painter lady found him.
@blondeeebuckeye: I saw a very drugged guy in the park once. At first I thought he was just drunk because there were a bunch of guys around him (who I thought were his friends).
After a bit it became obvious that those guys were just harassing him because this man couldn't even get up. Every time he tried to get up, he fell on his face.
I went to talk to a bouncer at the concert we were outside of, but he said it "wasn't his job" to do anything since he was working the concert not what was going on outside. He wouldn't even CALL the cops and just went back to flirting with some girl.
Finally I found some other security guards (who had actually already been alerted) but they came over right away and stayed with him until the ambulance came.
The guys who I originally thought were his friends were video taping the whole thing and were actually getting in the paramedics way to taunt the poor guy and tape him. I was SO disgusted by that.
911: once. we were having a really terrible storm and the power line that hold up the traffic light i was sitting at started swinging really badly and then big massive sparks started flying off of it, so i called to report that.
the police: for non-work purposes (I'm a lawyer so i call to talk to them about cases they're witnesses in), just once I think. I had a cop sitting in my driveway once saying he was waiting for one of my neighbors to get home so i called the station to make sure he was a real cop.
A few times. Once with my ex who was a cop, he saw some under cover officers chasing a guy down the street as we were driving through a bad part of town, so he yells at me "Call 911" and jumps out of the car to help. Scary stuff. LOL!
Once when I was in university. A guy a few cars in front of me drove into a traffic standard in an intersection. I think he had taken a few too many meds that day (or none at all, I can't remember), but I had to testify in court later. That one was scary because there was a car seat in the back of the car but no kid. Everyone freaked out looking for the baby, but it turned out she was with her mom.
I've called *OPP (like state troopers in Ontario, they patrol our highways) for drunk drivers quite a few times.
Oh and I almost forgot, I had to call 911 for myself once! LOL! I had Norwalk virus and was really really really violently ill. I nearly passed out and I was concerned I would hit my head on the way down and choke to death, so I had to call an ambulance to take me to the hospital. Fun stuff!
I’ve only called 911 once – our next door neighbor's house was on fire in the middle of the night and there was so much smoke OUR fire detectors went off
I’ve called *77 (highway patrol) several times – once was for a lady who was either drunk or high (or both). She looked like she was asleep and almost rear ended a semi on the highway, was going into other lanes, crossing the yellow lines, etc.
The other was in a snowstorm – a van had gone off the road and smashed through part of the guardrail and gone into a ditch. They were ok, but had no cell, and I was the first person to drive by and stop.
I haven't called but my FI called once and my BFF called twice when I was with her, too. Both times were for VERY unruly neighbors, and the other time my BFF called was when we saw a trashcan being lit on fire by some teenagers.
Once in grad school, when I was home alone and was having a weird spell. I couldn't breathe, my heart was pounding, then my arms went numb and I saw my face in the mirror turning blue. I thought I was having a heart attack. While on the phone I started slurring my words and collapsed. Paramedics came within minutes. Apparantly I was having a panic attack, so they gave me oxygen and helped me calm down my breathing. I felt pretty stupid afterwards because I'd never heard of a panic attack at the time and it sounded lame, as in "so somehow I just got scared to death?". The experience felt very real and scary though.
@KatNYC2011: EW!!! I can't believe people would do something like that! Ugh, I know the guy was mad we got him in trouble for sleeping in a park, but stories like yours make me glad I did it.
Once. I was at work, and a resident was having serious withdrawals from the medication his doctor was trying to wean him off of. (He's paraplegic, and has been on high doses of narcotics for over 20 years. His idiot doctor said "okay" to him going cold turkey.)
@blondeeebuckeye: This guy was not happy to be taken away by the paramedics. He looked like he was homeless or a drug addict or both. But he was in REALLY bad shape. So much so that when he fell over he'd land on his face because he didn't have the motor control to break his fall with his hands.
There were also TONS of people in the park who were all looking at him but doing NOTHING! I couldn't believe no one else was trying to help except me and one or two other people.
I called 911 twice. Once while driving on a rural freeway and seeing the hood of a car go up in flames and the driver was nowhere in sight. The firetrucks arrived while I was on the phone.
Another time I was behind a lady driving way too fast on a residential road. She hit a dog, cut it in half, slowed down enough for me to take down her license plate number, then kept going. The dog was dead but I called 911 and stayed with the dog until the police arrived.
I called 911 once. When I was in highschool my car was parked on the street in front of my parents house. I went out to get something and I noticed the passenger front bumper was scratched and dented. There was no note from someone saying that they damaged my car so we called. It turnes out that the company that cuts my neighbor's grass hit my car while leaving. The owner of the company told the officer "It didn't sound bad so we didn't stop."
I had 911 called for me once. I was 7 years old and I was at the dentist. (WARNING DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE AFFRAID OF THE DENTIST) They were checking my teeth with the hook tool and the top of it broke off and slid down my throat. The Dr. and his assistant started panicing and said right in front of me "It could puncture her lungs or her stomach we have to call 911." The ambulance came and they had to make me go to the ER because I was so terrified. Turns out everything was fine and I passed the tool.
I've called a couple times:
I was driving down the street and there was a crazy, drunk homeless guy walking down the middle of the road, and then looked like he was going to jump off the bridge to the railroad tracks below.
Another time I had an experience similar to Lindsay's...crazy ass driver swearving everywhere!
I've called the non-emergency line too. Once because we thought someone kept breaking into my parents house & we wanted to file a report for any future incidents. Another time because there were kids, ages 6-13, playing in the street @ 2:30 in the morning!
I've called 911 whenever I have been involved in an accident (4 times).
In another life, I used to be an EMT - the person who came when you called. Like 90% of my unit, I was a volunteer EMT, and I volunteered for 2 12-hour overnight shifts per week in addition to working my full-time job. I did it because I enjoy helping people and I am an adrenaline junky :)
Someone earlier made a comment about long wait times after calling 911...Remember, those folks are doing the best they can. Most EMT jobs have crappy pay (if at all) with lots of stress. The best way to have the best EMS service is vote to have your city/county pay them more!!!!
@KatNYC2011: i think a lot of it has to do with the "bystander effect"--from wikipedia: The bystander effect or Genovese syndrome is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present. The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely related to the number of bystanders; in other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help.
i obviously do NOT suffer from bystander effect haha. i'd rather be the 5th person to call 911 about a situation than to assume someone else has done it :)
I've called 911 once for myself. I was in a car accident that blocked an intersection. I called to get a police cruiser sent over to direct traffic until the cars could be moved out of the way. It was totally annoying because after you call 911 from a cell phone it blocks all calls and texts for 10 minutes in case the 911 dispatch have to call back. I had texted my SO that I had crashed but was ok, then he couldn't get ahold of me for 10 minutes, he was freaking out!
@meliss: I get panic attacks. The first two times I thought I was having a heart attack and I went to the ER. Now I know to spot the symptoms early, and I take valium. lol.
@baldor1: Boo about the dog :( What a terrible story. I'm glad at least you were there and stayed with him.
I have a really funny/slightly embarassing 911 story. I was a nanny and the family was gone for a week for vacation but I lived with them so I was in this huge house alone. Anyway, it was late one night and I heard a crash that I swear sounded like breaking glass so I called 911! I was freaking out! They sent a couple officers over and checked out the outside of the house and said nothing appeared to be broken into and asked me to come to the front door and meet them. On my way up, I happened to notice that my shower curtain rod had fallen down and that was what I heard! I was so embarrassed but VERY relieved and the officers and the dispatcher were really nice about it and said it was better safe than sorry. Oye.
Twice - both times on the same day! The first time, we were on the highway in a not very well lit area, and there was a queen-sized full mattress in the middle of the left lane. Fortunately, it was still light enough that we saw it and were able to avoid it, but that probably wouldn't have happened thirty minutes later. We called so that someone would get it out of the way.
About an hour later, the woman in the car ahead of us was really drunk, and she was swerving all over the road and had very nearly hit four cars in the minute we had been behind her. It was dark and I couldn't get her whole plate number, but I gave the cops a description of the car and told them what I could of the plate.
OMG, I've called so many times I don't even keep track.
Both times my car was stolen.
When I ran FI over on a jet ski and broke his neck (for real).
When a car in front of me on the freeway stalled.
At least two other times when cars either crashed or went off the road on the highway right in front of me.
At least 4 times for drunk and disorderly people in the alley. We live in an area where the buildings are very, very close together and no one has a yard. The population is very, very dense and people tend to get loud in the alley. I don't mind in winter, but in summer when I have to have my windows open, you better shut it.
And at least three times for gunshots. Nothing bad in that regard has happened in our neighborhood but I do think people tend to do stupid things and with so many people living in such close proximity, it just isn't weird any more to hear some crazy things. That said, my neighborhood is really very safe. I'm guessing all of the gun shots were stupid people trying to hit a dumpster or something equally ridiculous. Still super dangerous though so I get on my phone and call away.
As a side note, I really like how when I dial 911 from my cell phone, a speeding ambulance shows up on the screen. Just in case I didn't know what it was when I dialed it.
@artichokey: HOLY smokes! You broke your FI's neck?? That's crazy! Hope he's OK now.
@MissSawyer & @bakerella: I never knew about *OPP before! Where have I been? Thanks for enlightening me :)
I have called twice.
The first time I was driving from CT to Boston and started to have a very severe allergic reaction to something I had eaten. I ended up needing an epinephrine shot when they took me by ambulance to the hospital.
The second time, I was at home in my apartment that overlooked a parking lot that served the downtown (bar) area. One Saturday night around 2 am I woke up to a woman screaming in the parking lot. Her boyfriend had to have been drunk and was threatening her and trying ot hit her with his car. I called the police but they never responded to teh call. What makes it worse? THe police station is literally 2 blocks away from where this happened.
@MsGolightly: Ha, yes. I did. He's fine now. It was back in 2007. All that's left now is a giant scar across the top of his head. You can't really see it unless you look closely since his hair covers it for the most part. When people do notice it, he tells them that ninjas attacked him a dark alley.
@artichokey: LOL that's cute (the ninja part, not the giant scar part, haha)
I've called three times. The first was when a fight broke out at the place I worked, the second was for a fire by the highway, and the third was calling in a drunk driver.
It's really scary the first time...my hands were shaking!
@artichokey: "When I ran FI over on a jet ski and broke his neck (for real)." WHOA! I bet he never wants to piss you off in the future, LOL.
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