CNN wrote:ALOHA, Oregon (AP) -- A woman who called 911 to get "the cutest cop I've seen" to sent back to her home got a date all right -- a court date.
The same sheriff's deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system.
Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. David Thompson told KGW-TV of Portland it all started with a noise complaint called in last month by neighbors of Lorna Jeanne Dudash. The deputy sent to check on the complaint knocked on her door, then left.
Thompson said Dudash then called 911, asking that the "cutie pie" deputy return.
"He's the cutest cop I've seen in a long time. I just want to know his name," Dudash told the dispatcher. "Heck, it doesn't come very often a good man comes to your doorstep."
After listening to some more, followed by a bit of silence, the dispatcher asked again why Dudash needed the deputy to return.
"Honey, I'm just going to be honest with you, OK? I just thought he was cute. I'm 45 years old and I'd just like to meet him again, but I don't know how to go about doing that without calling 911," she said.
"I know this is absolutely not in any way, shape or form an emergency, but if you would give the officer my phone number and ask him to come back, would you mind?"
The deputy returned, verified that there was no emergency and arrested her for misusing the 911 system, an offense punishable by a fine of up to several thousand dollars and a year in jail.
Thompson said Thursday it was the first case he knew of in which someone called the emergency line for such a personal reason.
"That's taking up valuable time from dispatchers who could be taking true emergency calls," he said.
neoolong wrote:But, yes, it is a waste of resources.
The fact those resources are used to respond to life-threatening emergencies is what makes this woman a particular bitch; someone could seriously have died because she chose to make this retarded call.
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This gives a new meaning to the term "single and desperate".
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The fact those resources are used to respond to life-threatening emergencies is what makes this woman a particular bitch; someone could seriously have died because she chose to make this retarded call.
I wouldn't call her a bitch so much as stupid. She really should have gone through a different method to find the cop, like maybe going down to the station and asking.
This reminds of a similar story. Six months ago (IIRC), a woman called the police station some enormous number of times to talk to a cop. Just to talk. That was in France.
In this case, the woman called only once and she was arrested. Is it that the american cops are more efficient, or do the French cops have a higher tolerance level for this kind of thing?
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Elaro wrote:This reminds of a similar story. Six months ago (IIRC), a woman called the police station some enormous number of times to talk to a cop. Just to talk. That was in France.
In this case, the woman called only once and she was arrested. Is it that the american cops are more efficient, or do the French cops have a higher tolerance level for this kind of thing?
Are you sure that was done through the emergency line and not the station's own phone?
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Elaro wrote:This reminds of a similar story. Six months ago (IIRC), a woman called the police station some enormous number of times to talk to a cop. Just to talk. That was in France.
In this case, the woman called only once and she was arrested. Is it that the american cops are more efficient, or do the French cops have a higher tolerance level for this kind of thing?
911 is separate from the police department's phonelines, and used exclusively for emergencies. Most people don't tend to call the police department directly, after all.
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Elaro wrote:This reminds of a similar story. Six months ago (IIRC), a woman called the police station some enormous number of times to talk to a cop. Just to talk. That was in France.
In this case, the woman called only once and she was arrested. Is it that the american cops are more efficient, or do the French cops have a higher tolerance level for this kind of thing?
911 is the dedicated emergency line. If you just need to talk to the police and it's not an emergency, you call the station, which has a seven digit phone number like everywhere else in America. She could have just looked up the sheriff's department's phone number and called them directly if she'd had a lick of sense, and it wouldn't have troubled anybody.
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Someone on this forum has, in their sig, the story of a woman who called 911 because she was being a bitch and Carl's Jr wouldn't make her a western burger.
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I have one for you. I volunteer at hospital here in Sacramento in a neurology clinic. One side of the clinic is devoted to rehabilitation, which means that most of these people aren't mentally impaired; they're just working to recover.
Anyway, we had one particular patient of East Indian descent who never liked having a woman as his nurse. He was constantly demanding things from the staff, even when they were with other patients, and would lecture everyone on running to serve him whenever he buzzed the call light.
One night he got fed up because the curry chicken he had brought in wasn't properly microwaved by a staff member, so he called 911. Cops showed up on the fucking hospital floor to find out what was going on. All of us told them. They went in there and warned him that doing that again would result in an arrest, hospitalized or not. Dumb ass.
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Someone on this forum has, in their sig, the story of a woman who called 911 because she was being a bitch and Carl's Jr wouldn't make her a western burger.
That'd be me.
Yeah, there're all sorts of weirdos calling 911. Then, agian, there are just a lot of weridos.
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Unlikely. She's 45, and appears to be insanely desperate. A hot person wouldn't be that crazed, because there'd be no need for it.
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