I called 911 for the first time AMA
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Anonymous
OP isn’t smart enough to do a troll post. Just uninteresting and doesn’t understand what AMAs are for. |
Anonymous
I had the same thing happen earlier this year with my DC 911 call. I was on my iphone and my call got routed to Montgomery County, she said she couldn't help, but would wait on the line. It was nearly 4 min she was on hold with me, after picking up 30 seconds, all documented on my iphone on a random weekday about 5pm. People would be dead by that point. It's truly scary. |
Anonymous
See above re: Takoma Park! |
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My dad called 911 by accident (shaky fingers) early one morning, realized the error, and hung up. 10 minutes later there’s an officer at the door to check on things, and they asked who else lived there. When he said just me and my wife, they very politely said they couldn’t leave until they saw my mom was ok. So dad had to go wake her up, and she had to come out in her pajamas to show she was alive and well. He was in the doghouse for that one!
(This took place in a non-DMV state, btw.) |
Anonymous
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Join the club. I've called 911 for someone erratically wandering down the middle of a highway, a drunk wavering on the sidewalk on Georgia avenue (no grass border), witnessing a car accident (someone was laying in the road) from my apartment window in Baltimore, and overhearing what sounded like domestic violence next door to an apartment that I was visiting.
Each time the person picked up immediately. |
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I had to call 911 when I learned my mom had died, and I didn’t realize at that time the service only works locally.
(I was calling from DC and she was in Stafford County, a couple of counties south of DC.) Bless my mom’s neighbor heart that then called 911 for me. It was frustrating, to say the least, that one dispatch can’t help contact another. Especially when minutes matter. |
Anonymous
This is not true and you should be ashamed for exaggerating and outright lying like this. |
Anonymous
| I've called 911 many times...for neighbors who were fighting so loudly I thought they were going to kill each other, for unwell people on the street, for myself to request an ambulance because I needed to go to the ER and had no other means of getting there, to report a traffic light was out at major intersections, after a shooting I witnessed/heard... |
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It is kind of amazing to me that this is an event so rare in an adult's life that you would memorialize it like this. I have called 911...probably dozens of times. Here are a few:
-Woman at bus stop having asthma attack, no inhaler and asked for me to call -Car accidents--if police/rescue are not already present, cars are disabled and it's not obvious that everyone involved is OK, I call -In traffic on I-95 about 7-8 years ago, guy in the car behind me was having some kind of mental event during which he was thrashing around behind the wheel of the car and ultimately got out and laid face-down in the middle of the interstate (traffic was stopped, fortunately) -Domestic violence taking place in apartment next to mine 20 years ago (2-3 times) -Walking to and from my workplace near Union Station, anytime I saw someone unconscious who was not clearly sleeping or someone who was showing signs of drug-induced distress (including some who were not breathing normally) -Another passenger on Metro had a medical event, needed help Have you just been walking by stuff like this until now OP, or are we living on different planets? |
Anonymous
Aren't you clever! |
Anonymous
They even hang up on you here and call back. |