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There are other changes as well.
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It's time to move on and move forward.
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the one and only time i ever called 911 was when I had a severe case of pancreatitis at school in 2006. i got to ride in an ambulance and i had to stay in the hospital for a week then have surgery about a month later. oh geez. any time i need to call the police for non-emergency things i call their regular phone line. I call that number all the time because my dad works there!
I have had to call the police three times since we moved here, but I used the non-emergency number each time. I think the last time I dialed 911 was when I lived in a 7-story apartment building in downtown St. Paul. There was a fire in the building (which was sort of C-shaped) and there were several fire escape routes. I didn't know where the fire was (below me? left/right of me?), so I didn't know which escape was safest. I was terrified I'd go down the stairs and actually find myself CLOSER to the fire. The 911 dispatcher was able to check with the on-scene fire chief and gave me the safest course of action -- which, believe it or not, was staying right where I was, in my apartment!
Good grief, Vicky! Sounds like you guys need a big, loud dog.
The last time I called 911 was when I started a dryer fire with an underwire. Before that, last Halloween. While we were trick-or-treating, there was an accident one block over on a very busy road. The cops diverted traffic through a neighborhood that was crawling with trick-or-treaters and the detoured drivers were doing about 60 mph through a residential neighborhood with a 15 mph speed limit with no sidewalks amongst all those children. I called 911 and had a few choice words about the police dept.'s oversight. Within about 90 seconds of my call, there were two patrol cars at each end of the street. Glad to see they 'realized' their mistake.
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Lordy, when I lived in a large, college-aged apartment complex, I think we called 911 at least once every few months. My roommate and I liked to laugh that we were unpaid night watchmen (and it didn't help that we kept vampire-like hours, and liked to sit on our deck just BS-ing).
We lived in a top floor apartment that overlooked the main office, and several of the parking lots and other buildings, and people were constantly doing stupid things.
My favorite was when there was a drainage system being built in one of the parking lots, and there was a backhoe pulled off to the side of the lot. It was about 4 am on the weekend, and some drunk fool decided to A). pull the door off the backhoe and throw it on the ground; B). start it up (b/c the keys were left in the ignition - maintenance men), & C). proceed to drive it around, all the while spinning the hoe/arm/digger thing in circles, narrowly missing parked cars in the meanwhile. That was a fun call to the police, while trying to explain what was going on in between holding the phone up so they could hear the back-up beeping going on.
Or the time when some random guy was walking around the building across the parking lot, in the snow, with a shirt and shorts on, holding a butcher knife in one hand. He circled that building about 10 times before we finally called the cops because we just couldn't figure out WHAT he was doing.
Yikes, Vicky!! I hope today was much less 'eventful'
I've probably called 4 or 5 times over the past 3 days. DH works in a very slow 911 dispatch center.
On a 'for real' call....July 12, 2006 Yikes!!! Alrighty then....... (I had to search for it. I can't remember, though, if I called 911 or the fire department directly). My DH wasn't using the right type extension cord on our pop-up - I affectionately refer to it as the pop-tart now - and we had a fire that started & then went out by itself. I told the fire department that it was out and we didn't need sirens, but they sent an engine with all the bells and whistles. DH was quite embarrassed, while I was A few minutes later another engine shows up....to get $$ from the first set of guys, so they could get the take out! Then the fire inspector came and the guys left, as my DFIL was pulling in. It was a lot of fun.
So when was the last time you called 911, and why did you call?
where do you want the list to start????
I work at a motel and always have to call them. The last time was two weeks ago when we had 90 graduating soon to be "lawyers" was here parting. 15 rooms-90 kids and so much beer and hard stuff after 3 days you could have built a house out of all the trash from the beer cans alone. One kids was mouthing off-using no so nice words and then one kid brook into another room because he was hopping balconys and miss counted.
I have called them because a guy wanted to punch his pregnet girlfriend-that one was fun...had two so called "men" working with me and they did nothing, just stood there like a bump on a log, I was standing in between the two. All the guy was saying was (to his girlfriend) I am going to punch you...all I kept saying was leave and if you are such a man then hit me. Cops came and he went after her infront of the cop. Needless to say he spent the night in jail.
The storys go on and on. The last time that I had to call them for a NON-work thing was when my sister hit a trailer (one you tow a car on) spun out, hit another car and busted her head open on the rearview merrior. She was working and told me to call, well she told me the wrong street but thank god the cops went down the next street and found her. Try calling in an accadent that you are 2 miles away from and trying to get 911 to understand where they are and why you are calling and not the other person and why you know about the accadent if you are not by it.
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Sounds like you guys need a big, loud dog. 
Before that, last Halloween. While we were trick-or-treating, there was an accident one block over on a very busy road. The cops diverted traffic through a neighborhood that was crawling with trick-or-treaters and the detoured drivers were doing about 60 mph through a residential neighborhood with a 15 mph speed limit with no sidewalks amongst all those children. I called 911 and had a few choice words about the police dept.'s oversight. Within about 90 seconds of my call, there were two patrol cars at each end of the street. 
maintenance men), & C). proceed to drive it around, all the while spinning the hoe/arm/digger thing in circles, narrowly missing parked cars in the meanwhile. That was a fun call to the police, while trying to explain what was going on in between holding the phone up so they could hear the back-up beeping going on. 
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