Teen Calls 911 After Parents Take Xbox

Parents took his Xbox away for whatever reason they had, so he called 911 but hung up.  As a policy, a 911 dispatcher will have to send a unit to a house if they receive a hangup call and no one answers when the operator calls the number.  It’s done so that if someone needs help and has become incapacitated (passed out, dead/dying, someone threatening or performing physical harm on a person, etc), then medical and police personnel will be on hand to assist.  A lot of times the hangups are kids or accidental dials, but it’s not unusual to actually find someone in need of assistance. 

There have been a lot of stupid calls to 911.  Most recently seen in the news:

• A man who called looking for sex. 
• A woman who wanted the police to tell her husband to stop watching porn.
• A man who called to complain about the neighbor’s noisy bed.
• A customer in a Texas restaurant who was called because a restaurant didn’t give her extra shrimp in her fried rice. 
• A woman who complained that McDonald’s claiming would not give her money back because they were out of nuggets.
• A woman who called police so they would ask her husband to stop watching porn.

Seriously, what is wrong with people these days?

~watergirl~