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Woman calls 911 for Lack of shrimp in her rice.
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What is this **** lately with people calling 911 because they don't like their food?? 
Didn't we just have some jerk call 911 because Burger King didn't have lemonade?
And wasn't there another, similar situation a few months before that?
Didn't we just have some jerk call 911 because Burger King didn't have lemonade?
And wasn't there another, similar situation a few months before that?
Oh come on. "They didn't give me Scrimps!!" is obviously not a true emergency. Sure make the operators take the call, and send out police if there is ANY doubt, but really, Shrimp!?
And then, once convicted, anyone who calls 911 for a non-emergency should have to do significant volunteer time at the 911 call center and/or an emergency room to get a clue about who is NOT getting help while their call is being answered.
Sheesh!!
First it was the cop that held the guy up from his dying mother in law, now this. Why do idiots like this always seem to come from Texas?
I hope I'm not seeing what I will someday become *shudder*
I hope I'm not seeing what I will someday become *shudder*
You know if the guy just stopped and accepted the ticket, he probably would have made it to his mother-in-law's bedside before she died. But no, it's always the police officer's fault.
He did stop and accept the ticket - in the parking lot in front of the emergency room, and in front of a nurse and another police officer who told the ticketing officer that the driver's story was legit. He made no effort to evade the officer or the ticket.
Nobody around here (Dallas area) seems to dispute whether the guy deserved a ticket; the issue was why the cop had to make the whole ordeal take 15+ minutes when he's faced with confirmation that there's a dying relative inside the hospital.
He kept arguing with the officer. If he just shut up and accepted the ticket it would not have taken 15 minutes. He could have saved his story for the judge who would have understood and probably drop the charges.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/ny-spmoats0327,0,2596207.story
Wrong again. From your own cited source:
If you listen to the tape, at no point did Moats argue with the cop over the ticket. In fact, he keeps saying, "Yes, sir. Yes sir." over and over to get the whole ordeal over with.
And the police department has already dropped the charges and criticized the officer for his behavior.
If you listen to the tape, at no point did Moats argue with the cop over the ticket. In fact, he keeps saying, "Yes, sir. Yes sir." over and over to get the whole ordeal over with.
And the police department has already dropped the charges and criticized the officer for his behavior.
Also from my own cited source:
I guess that doesn't count as arguing? I know I'll never change your mind so we'll just agree to disagree.
You know...
Is very very lame and sad that people do not have enough social skills to go over and resolve their situations directly.
One of the reasons I moved from the US was because everybody use to resolve the situation calling the police and suiting, and then all of them are smoking pot and suffering from anxiety because they are socially isolated.
I saw that happening in every person when I was in New York, the same in Miami, Connecticut, Arkansas, L.A...
When we have the exchange students from the US over they even leave the first week or do not want to leave at all after a year. In my country with all our problems we have a sense of comunity, we do not call 911 because there is noise next dorr, we go over and talk. We do not have AAA, we call a friend or family and they respond in 10 minutes or less. No one here is suffering from isolation, people here know how to comunicate.
Lame the woman who call, lame the operator that didn't know what to do.
Is very very lame and sad that people do not have enough social skills to go over and resolve their situations directly.
One of the reasons I moved from the US was because everybody use to resolve the situation calling the police and suiting, and then all of them are smoking pot and suffering from anxiety because they are socially isolated.
I saw that happening in every person when I was in New York, the same in Miami, Connecticut, Arkansas, L.A...
When we have the exchange students from the US over they even leave the first week or do not want to leave at all after a year. In my country with all our problems we have a sense of comunity, we do not call 911 because there is noise next dorr, we go over and talk. We do not have AAA, we call a friend or family and they respond in 10 minutes or less. No one here is suffering from isolation, people here know how to comunicate.
Lame the woman who call, lame the operator that didn't know what to do.
I think part of the problem is how everyone is looking out for themselves. If you go over to talk to the neighbor next door, is there a risk you could be assaulted? If a friend calls you to help tow their car out of the ditch, and in doing so you accidentally damage his car, is there a risk he could sue you? There have been a lot of extreme cases so the instinct is to pull into your shell and not help others, and not depend on others to help you.
Out of curiousity, which country do you live in?
Does anyone see slippery slope effect? First a women in McDonalds calls for a legitimate thing (they were stealing her money), then some guy calls 911 because McDonalds again doesn't have lemonade and he wants badly his lemonade, now this.....
Slippery slope effect? Sounds like something FOX News invented.
I can assure you, these idiots know nothing of their fellow compatriots calling 911 inappropriately as I'm sure they don't read/watch the news.
Probably so, but how else can you explain subsequent events and in an increasing matter?
I'm going to call 911 to complain that I missed seeing this rather sad+funny thread before.
Shortchanging people's shrimp-rice is definitely a serious crime, as is refusing taco refunds and poisoning the water supply so it produces rainbows.
We should all protect our fellow citizens by reporting these nefarious acts as emergencies.
Shortchanging people's shrimp-rice is definitely a serious crime, as is refusing taco refunds and poisoning the water supply so it produces rainbows.
We should all protect our fellow citizens by reporting these nefarious acts as emergencies.
Oh God, I had already seen these two case before! Makes me wonder if people really do go to school.
no insult intended....
And then, once convicted, anyone who calls 911 for a non-emergency should have to do significant volunteer time at the 911 call center and/or an emergency room to get a clue about who is NOT getting help while their call is being answered.
Sheesh!!
I don't think you want people stupid and ignorant enough to call 911 for things like lemonade and shrimp anywhere near vital emergency services.
Damn, I've met some dumb Texans, but that just takes the cake.
I'm so tired of people like this making it hard for the rest of us who live in Texas. For those of you around the world reading stuff like this please don't believe that all of us are like this. If she was a true Texan then she would have known not to call 911. Instead she would have simply moved on through the drive through, parked her horse, pulled out her gun and gone in that there store and handled her business. "Gimme my shrimp partner, or I'll have to introduce you to my friend Smith & Wesson. And there better be some free eggrolls in the bag for my horse."