Poll of the Day > Have you ever had to dial "911"??? (or your country's equivalent)

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GreenKnight127
12/10/19 5:44:33 PM
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If so, what was it for? What happened?

I've had to dial it maybe 3 times in my life. First time I was at a park with some friends. I was 12 years old. We saw this guy beating the shit out of this woman. Assumed to be his wife or girlfriend. They were probably in their 40's. Smacking her across the face. Shoving her to the ground. Dragging her by the hair. She was kicking and screaming. It was really scary. And this was before cellphones. I ran to a payphone that I knew was near the bathrooms and this gazebo thing. Dialed 911. Said I was at [blank] park. A man was beating up a woman. Two cop cars came in like 5 minutes! The guy was still shoving the woman around, and she was trying to slap him away. When he saw the cops he got even more pissed at her. Then the cops grabbed him and shoved him in the car. He saw us standing there and he gave us the meanest look, I guess because he probably finally put two and two together and knew one of us called the cops.

Second time was at this summer camp kinda place in my 20's. I worked there. This teenage boy was beating up his mom. Punching her in the face and chest because she wouldn't give him his laptop. These counselor people restrained him and broke up the fight, and one of them delegated me, "Call the police!" So I did. His mom didn't want to press charges. She should have. That kid was fucking psycho and she had some serious bruises the following days.

The third time was actually last year. On my commute to work these 4 cars were racing each other down the highway. Really fancy cars. I'm not good with cars, but Lamborghini-looking things. 4 of them. Red, Yellow, White, and Green. Like fucking power rangers or something. DANGEROUSLY weaving between cars with no signals, going upwards of 120mph. Like a fucking movie or something. One almost clipped my car, which really set me off. About 3 miles down the road, there was some traffic, and we were all able to catch up to the Power Rangers who had stopped because of the traffic. I was able to catch the Green Ranger's license plate. I dialed 911 and told them about the street racing, which road, which direction they were heading, description, and the plate number. I felt like a really old person, LMAO! But I didn't care. Those bastards were seriously putting a lot of people in danger, and it pissed me off so much. Don't know if anything came of it. But for how obvious they were, I'm hoping some cops got them later.

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wwinterj25
12/10/19 6:52:00 PM
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999 for me and yeah for a ambulance a few times. Most recently it was because I had a panic attack and was worried it was something more. I've learned not to do that anymore though as I know what they are and better ways to deal with them.

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CTLM
12/10/19 7:03:13 PM
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Once for myself after getting rear ended at a stoplight. I was fine but their car was nearly totaled. Plus the cops had to come to take statements and whatnot

Several times at my last job. I was "med charge" and any emergencies were to be handled by me. 911 was called for resident falls, heart attacks, missing persons and a stroke
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Sahuagin
12/10/19 7:13:29 PM
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family member fell down the stairs once, which required a 911 call, but I didn't make the call. that's it I think.

friend from Romania dialed 911 once when he found someone's wallet

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Trialia
12/10/19 7:38:57 PM
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999 here. Yes, quite a few times actually. I think I had to call for one of my father's heart attacks (he had four) when I was still living with him, and another time I called them when an older woman fainted in the street in front of me (I was in my wheelchair so I couldn't help get her up).

It's fairly often that I've had it done for me, for whatever reason. I've had a lot of serious injuries etc... Aged 19 I had to be removed from my home on a stretcher as I couldn't get from sitting to standing or vice versa without sobbing in pain - that was 3 days after a nasty fall. Internal bruising across my lower back, and permanent nerve damage. 2012 I had severe cholecystitis & gallstones, had to be rushed to hospital screaming & put in the emergency surgical ward to get rid of my gall bladder ASAP, it was such a mess. I was in-patient 3 weeks that time.

I have a community alarm now - the kind of thing you keep round your neck & press if you fall & can't get up or you need medical help? - and I've had to use that just once for real, so far, when I had a bout of flu so bad I couldn't stay conscious for more than a couple minutes at a time. The CA team called 999 on my behalf that time (I wound up in hospital on a drip for 2 days).

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GreenKnight127
12/10/19 7:40:28 PM
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Oh shit, Trialia....

I'm sorry to hear all of that. Fuck.

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SunWuKung420
12/10/19 7:51:36 PM
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When I got rear ended on the highway, in the middle of the night, and we were the only 2 cars on the road.

When the hospital released a junkie and he tried to sleep on my neighbor's lawn.

That's it.

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aDirtyShisno
12/10/19 9:15:28 PM
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Ive had to call it like 400 times for work but if you mean for me personally, then no.

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zebatov
12/11/19 3:22:35 AM
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I used to but I dont bother anymore. Theyre useless.

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FrozenBananas
12/11/19 3:32:30 AM
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My dad was having a heart attack in the middle of the night and I was the only other one in the house at the time. He was screaming my name 3 rooms away, which woke me up and it was awkward because I was trying to talk to person on the phone and tell them my address, my but my dad kept screaming no! no! use a landline, they wont know where youre calling from if you use a cell phone!

fun times

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Sarcasthma
12/11/19 3:51:22 AM
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zebatov posted...
I used to but I dont bother anymore. Theyre useless.
lol

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lorekai
12/11/19 4:25:07 AM
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Once, when a woman was came running onto the street late at night, covered in blood and screaming help me. She'd been beaten up by one of the neighbours for her medication. It took the police a shamefully long time to show up though, especially as I live within walking distance of a police station.

I've also had to use the non emergency line a couple of times, most notably when my house was burgled, that wasn't fun.

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Gaawa_chan
12/11/19 4:30:45 AM
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A couple of times. Let's see...

I heard gunshots once near where I was (residential area so it was strange) and wanted to make sure that no one had gotten shot so I called in just to be safe.

I spotted a big fire that had been set right next to a building in the middle of the night (insomnia) and there had been an arson case in a town about 15 miles away like the previous week.

Uh, and my father threw my younger sister and me out of the car in the middle of Tacoma during a visit in around 1AM (we were visiting and had gone to see a movie). Interestingly, this was the one time I felt genuinely in danger (my father is severely mentally ill) and the police did jack shit, telling us we could go back to my father's house or we could stay on the streets.

One other time, I would have called the police, but instead I called the office at the assisted living facility and they called the ambulance. Er, once or twice every week for a few years, I would visit an elderly friend of mine and help him out at his place. But he had died the night before and I was the one who discovered the body. I was a bit too freaked out to think clearly; he was covered in blood, so...

I think that's all the times I did so or got someone else to do so. My little sister had to call the police once because some whackjob tried to get her into his car.

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zebatov
12/11/19 4:32:11 AM
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Sarcasthma posted...
lol
I mean from what I hear over there thats pretty much the only avenue you get because youre not allowed to defend yourself. From more than a few sources Ive read your best option is to run away which is the most pathetic thing I think Ive ever read and really the only real negative of Japan that I can list. Ive also read it would suck to be foreign and having to deal with police when the other guy is a native.

But yeah theres nothing funny or untrue about what I said. You wouldnt know because you dont know anything about Canada.

I was driving to work along Water Street about 2:30 a.m. ... when I was approached by about 10 people who were crossing the road. I stopped, and they surrounded me, and the one man started swearing at me and then he punched my car, says Wilson.
She pulled over and started taking pictures as they swarmed around her vehicle that's when I called 911.
Wilson waited, but RCMP didn't show up. Instead, they called her about a half hour later and asked her to email the pictures that she took.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/271243/Kelowna-woman-says-her-car-was-damaged-in-swarming

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Trialia
12/11/19 5:36:33 AM
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GreenKnight127 posted...
Oh shit, Trialia....

I'm sorry to hear all of that. Fuck.

Well, thanks, but for my part it's nothing to worry about, honestly!

I have dozens of joint dislocations every day - it's the nature of the beast, as it were, living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and the blackouts are down to dysautonomia - and if I went to hospital every time I'm that injured I'd literally have to live there as I'd never get home! You get used to reducing dislocations yourself after a while when it's so frequent, though there are a handful of joints I still need help to relocate once in a while. I get a lot of abuse for being a young adult wheelchair user who looks younger than my age & whose impairments are all invisible to the layman, but I'm a lot less well than I look, and after a while it becomes something you just get used to dealing with.

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Sarcasthma
12/11/19 5:55:25 AM
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zebatov posted...
But yeah theres nothing funny or untrue about what I said. You wouldnt know because you dont know anything about Canada.
Calm down, dude. I was laughing because you made it seem like you had a few stories to share and then you didn't share them.

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benbeverfaqs
12/11/19 9:29:14 AM
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I've never called but people I've been with called 112.

-My brother called when we saw a car on fire in a park. They didn't care and fire fighters never came.

-My wife called when a stolen car was set on fire in a residential parking lot. Another car also caught fire and burned out. Fire fighters came and quickly dealt with it.

-I found an old man lying on the ground in an alley in a residential area. I asked if he was ok and his name and where he lived. He wanted to be escorted home. Another person came to help and thought it was better to call an ambulance. (she was right)

-In a park nearby my wife, child of 6 months, and me were attacked by a guy with 2 pitbulls. He tried hitting me and the dogs were going crazy. My wife called 112, and when he saw authorities were being called he quickly left. Police never showed up.
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Solid Sonic
12/11/19 9:41:59 AM
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Yeah, a couple of times.

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dedbus
12/11/19 10:27:56 AM
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I was driving and a bus had "call 911" on its display so I called for that.
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EvilMegas
12/11/19 3:07:15 PM
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Fights
stabbings
Missing persons
Robberies
Someone shot my car up once. (I wasn't in it)

I've had to call them a couple times

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BeerOnTap
12/11/19 3:24:28 PM
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Only once and it was just a couple months ago. My wifes cousin was moving. So I went over to help her out. Her husband had rented a uhaul truck. His dad and cousin were there (cousin is a dude). Im upstairs with my wifes uncle tearing down (un-assembling) bedroom furniture.
The weather was nice so the windows were open. Husband was trying to back up the truck, his dad was guiding him standing on the side of the truck, and his genius cousin got the bright idea that he would stand at the doorway to their apartment and try and guide the ramp into said doorway so they would not have to go up and down the porch stairs (there were only two steps)
All the sudden I hear BOOM and the whole house shook.
Then I hear his dad scream oh my god call 911.
I go to run down the stairs, and I see the cousin laying there on the porch screaming and grabbing at his leg. Pool of blood. The truck wheels got caught on a curb, and when it finally came free, it went really fast and hard. Dudes leg was right in between the deployed metal uhaul ramp and the wooden door frame. Splinters of wood everywhere. Drywall was cracked.
The dispatcher asked me can you see bone

Yes, unfortunately I can indeed see bone.
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GreenKnight127
12/11/19 3:39:46 PM
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EvilMegas posted...
Fights
stabbings
Missing persons
Robberies
Someone shot my car up once. (I wasn't in it)

I've had to call them a couple times
Where the hell do you live!?!?

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Sahuagin
12/11/19 6:08:08 PM
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dedbus posted...
I was driving and a bus had "call 911" on its display so I called for that.
what did it turn out to be?

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zebatov
12/11/19 6:09:50 PM
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Sarcasthma posted...
Calm down, dude. I was laughing because you made it seem like you had a few stories to share and then you didn't share them.
I thought I tapped myself out of stories around here.

But... as another example, if you report someone on the road whos breaking the law or acting suspiciously in general, youre not allowed to follow them or the call centre will disconnect the call. So you give the last-known intersection where you saw the car at so the police can show up and walk around because people who do dumb shit while driving always stick around to wait for the cops. Happened to me at least twice before I stopped calling and dealing with those situations on my own.

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myghostisdead
12/11/19 6:15:46 PM
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We had to take the phone away from Granny because she would call 911 over minor things. They sent a fire truck and ambulance for a backache! I explained she has Alzheimer's and told them I was getting rid of our home phone. The only reason I had it was for her to call her friends. Now the phone is gone, her friends are gone and I doubt she knows what a phone is.

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dedbus
12/12/19 1:49:13 AM
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Sahuagin posted...
what did it turn out to be?
I have no idea. It didn't look like anything was going on. I figure maybe they accidentally hit a panic switch. There wasn't anything on the news about it later on.
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TheWitchMorgana
12/12/19 1:52:00 AM
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saw a massive car accident happen like 50 feet in front of me, and since i was the closest one i called

looked very very bad, both cars were totaled, but miraculously nobody was seriously injured

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captpackrat
12/12/19 2:46:31 PM
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Had to call 911 a few times when my grandmother became unresponsive. She was a type-1 diabetic (that's the insulin dependent type) and was always terrible at controlling her blood sugar especially as she got older. One time the paramedics arrived and her blood sugar was 12 (normal is 72-144 mg/dl). High blood sugar is bad but will eventually come down even in a diabetic. Low blood sugar in a type-1 diabetic will only come back up after eating, which you can't do if you're passed out. This requires medical intervention with either a glucose IV or an injection of glucagon.

I also called 911 when I came home from a business trip and found my spouse dead on the floor. I have seen enough crime/medical shows to know he was gone with no hope of revival (algor mortis, rigor mortis and livor mortis had occurred, as had the beginning of putrefaction) but I had absolutely no clue who I was supposed to call.

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EvilMegas
12/12/19 3:27:48 PM
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GreenKnight127 posted...
Where the hell do you live!?!?
Washington D.C in the late 80s early 90s

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GreenKnight127
12/12/19 5:01:55 PM
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EvilMegas posted...
Washington D.C in the late 80s early 90s
Dear God. I am so sorry.

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ClarkDuke
12/12/19 5:11:42 PM
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yes, the woman was really rude and said a stalker isn't an emergency, ok?

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Trialia
12/12/19 9:23:46 PM
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captpackrat posted...
I also called 911 when I came home from a business trip and found my spouse dead on the floor. I have seen enough crime/medical shows to know he was gone with no hope of revival (algor mortis, rigor mortis and livor mortis had occurred, as had the beginning of putrefaction) but I had absolutely no clue who I was supposed to call.
I'm so sorry to hear that. It's never an easy thing to come home to or be present at the death of a loved one &/or a relative. I was at my father's deathbed last month, and things happened... far faster than I'd expected.

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