Being a police offficer.

ikonoclasm · 2 months

If there isn't already a site dedicated to retarded 911 calls, there should be. Heard too many of these... calling the cops because they are upset with fast food service, calling because they want a ride home from a bar (which really isn't terrible, but they generally have a shitty fucking attitude paired with a sense of entitlement), etc.

Godenyen · 2 months

Had a 911 call for someone who didn't want to live anymore because Michael Jackson died. Another one for a woman who thought someone broke into her apartment, only to find out it was just a balloon. Needless to say, there was almost a balloon with a bullet hole.

Bugsybear · 2 months

I was talking to police officer about how I'm always nervous that whatever I need to call 911 for isn't serious enough. He was like "no, people like you are not the problem, we have parents call and try to get a cop to come and force their kid to do their homework, calling 911 because of a downed power line that's sparking is what you SHOULD do".

SixInTheStix · 2 months

I was dispatched to a report of a woman who couldn't get her 8yo son to go to bed.

xopitseleh · 2 months

The real question is who was arrested, the wind or the dirt?

the_raptor · 2 months

I am not an American, so things are different, but calling the emergency number here for trivial shit like that will get you fined.

I have read a few 911 operator/EMT IAmA's and I can't believe the amount of bullshit that they apparently have to put up with in the US. Why the hell don't these time-wasters get fined?

WendyLRogers3 · 2 months

I was going on a ride along with a cop when he got this garbled message on the radio that only cops understand, but it lit him up and he floored it.

"IT'S HIM!!!", he said. Then the radio started going nuts, with all the other cops responding to the call. "What is it?", I asked. "IT'S HIM!!!", was all he would say.

By the time we got to some condos, there were cop cars all over the place, and I was freaking scared. Him who? John Dillinger?

All these cops in a huddle, and they look very serious, totally surrounding one of the condos, guns drawn. But "Him!!!" wasn't home.

So we left. He wouldn't talk about it until late that night. "Him!!!" was an indecent exposure. But not just any flasher. He had been flashing for six months, and the only description was that he was a "white male, about 40".

Any distinguishing marks or scars? Yep, the biggest dick you ever did see. Nobody ever looked at his face. Gi-freaking-normous.

Well, as it turned out, a little girl who lived at the condos heard the description, and knew some poor schmuck businessman who was white and about 40. So she called the police, and told them she knew where the flasher lived.

That poor guy, coming home at the end of a hard day, and there were two detectives on his couch and four surly uniforms waiting for him.

No idea if they ever caught "Him!!!" I'd like to think he returned to the freedom of the jungle, swinging from tree to tree with his prehensile pecker.

ThrowDown_Gun · 2 months

Cop here. One time I got sent to a house in the middle of the night because the resident forgot to put their garbage can out before trash day and didn't want to get out of bed.

driftwoodheart · 2 months

http://www.911callers.com/play.php?filename=i_want_my_taco.swf&title=I%20want%20my%20taco

Titan7771 · 2 months

God, I'd have a hard time staying polite if people called me with these kinds of problems.

patty_cgy · 2 months

I work for the fire department I went to a scene where a woman called 911 cause she had tangled herself up in her seat belt.

FaithSkirata · 2 months

I've hear that fire fighters in my area are constantly called to someone's home to unclog their toilet

EDIT: Removed "bloody" to prevent confusion.

Ackbar652 · 2 months

I'm x-posting this to r/911dispatchers, they'd get a kick out of it.

Any time I get calls like this, my favorite thing to do is try to make the caller feel like an idiot. Not because I'm an asshole or want to throw authority around, and I dont want to discourage them from calling during an actual emergency. But they need to learn to THINK FOR HALF A SECOND. Usually I just ask "What do you want the police to do about it?". And if their answer is ridiculous, I just stay silent and let the answer soak in.

10-13 · 2 months

I was raised on the radio to respond to an assault in progress. I arrived at the home to find a 22 year old explain to me that her 2 year old hit her.

Sklar_Hast · 2 months

I recall a few years ago that there was a story in the news about someone who called the police because someone had stolen a snowman with 2 pound coins for eyes from someone's garden.

sierrabravo1984 · 2 months

What about when they call 911 on the Fourth of July to tell "those damn kids to stop shooting guns in the streets" when the fireworks are going off. Or "the fireworks are scaring my horses, I want you to go to every single house in the city and tell them to knock it off."

fizzlefist · 2 months

I work in a county library and we have a central call center for all of our branches, as well as answering the county government's general information line.

I'd say at least 10% of the calls I pick up are 411 type calls where I google a business' phone number or address.

Occasionally we get more obscure calls, like when someone is having trouble activating their credit card.

Chubbstock · 2 months

We just had police and fire dispatched to a residence because they thought they saw something that resembled embers from a wildfire "but they were in paper bags or something"

They were Chinese lanterns.

schnaura · 2 months

I friend of mine that's a police office once told me about a lady that called 911 because she locked her car with the keys in the ignition and the car running. It was a convertible. When my friend Chad arrived, he said, "I reached over the window, turned off the car and handed her the keys." She seriously locked her keys in her car and the top was down....

SirGal-I-had · 2 months

Jesus Christ. THIS is what I have to look forward to after the academy??

RollingSkittles · 2 months

OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFICER

DarkReaver1337 · 2 months

In reality some police officers are actually service personal instead of crime fighters. In a lot of the more quieter and elderly town police officers do check up on houses and help people do things like move furniture and shit. But that is just if you are a town cop and not a statey.

Edited for some wrongly used words, damn IPhone autocorrect.

MonotonousMan · 2 months

This is why I figure they would always be more appreciative too talk to a "normal" person for a bit... But still every experience i've had it's always the rude "i'm superior" role. I suppose being a young male doesn't help much either, nor the consideration that too many crazies cause the attitude.

FkYeahVoltron · 2 months

I think it's good i decided not to be a Police Officer. I couldn't handle that shit and I tip my hat to you

BigBiscuits · 2 months

I used to work in the ER on a military base where we trained Saudi nationals and they abused the ambulance service like no other. One guy called 911 because he was "sweaty". Another called because he was sick to his stomach and had a headache... after drinking all night.

robthompson46 · 2 months

As a fellow officer, living the dream, i love my job ... sometimes.

skimbleshanks2 · 2 months

The 54% battery made me dry heave from anxiety. I should see somebody..

botanyisfun · 2 months

Good to see the officers down at Wellesley, MA PD contributing to Reddit!

giddyupbugger · 2 months

I made a citizens arrest in Santa Monica a few years ago (caught the guy breaking into our apartment complex with a bag full of laptops). i called 911 and it took the cops about 30 minutes to get there. Let me tell you, 30 minutes is a long time to hold someone against their will.

When the cop arrived he said, yeah, never call 911. You want us in a hurry call Santa Monica Police direct.

singul4r1ty · 2 months

This is why we have the non-urgent number for the police in England - 101.

reden · 2 months

Are all the callers still alive?

Mode_ · 2 months

Those are dispatchers, not officers.

Big difference.

windy444 · 2 months

Our crazy next door neighbour, who nobody in the neighbourhood liked, WENT to the police station to complain about her 90 year old neighbour. She said that because of him no one liked her. She was constantly annoying him and causing trouble for him. She finally moved. The police still glance at her place when they drive by. The police station is at the end of our street.

rlew · 2 months

Something about this image looks fake to me...

marmaladeskiiies · 2 months

dog glared at her menacingly as it drove past.

Fuck, I'd call that in ASAP. Shit would be scary as fuck!

phxrisin · 2 months

Yeah, I can imagine being a police officer in Scottsdale is tough.

headmustard · 2 months

Mod edit title "Being a 911 dispatcher"

usmarine13 · 2 months

officer*

mjones1512 · 2 months

damn with all those calls how do cops find time to beat peoples asses and harass them for no reason

aesamattki · 2 months

Facebook post? Have a downvote.

getgot · 2 months

You should go by and pepper spray them. Maybe kill the family dog, hit them with false charges, and get that fucking cat out of the tree you fucking peasant.

DontScuffMyNikesBrah · 2 months

So you get paid to do nothing?

iamstephen · 2 months

Fuckin pigs ಠ_ಠ

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