911 dispatchers, what's a call you won't forget?

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@michellegray7892 8 ай бұрын

You all may get a nice chuckle out of this one: I was a small child in the early 80s, about 6, maybe 7 years old. During this time period, 911 actually had commercials because it was still relatively new. They had a blue screen with white writing while the narrator said "if you need help, dial 911". not fire, not medical, not robbery, no images-just if you need and a blue background with the writing on it. So-I needed help with my homework. mom was in the kitchen cooking and said she couldn't help me right now. So what did I do? Yep-called 911, told them what I needed help with. the operator (of course) told me that is not the type of help they provide. My response? "that's false advertising!" and hung up. yeah-at 6 yeas old (I had to have got the phrase from some court show my mom was always watching). I barely remember this because again, 6 or 7 years old at the time but because I had called, police still had to come out. So a short while later, my mom had the fun of not only having to apologize to them for my calling and promising them she would explain the real use of it to me but also trying not to laugh when the officer told her what I had said about false advertising before hanging up. I think the cop was trying not to laugh at that part as well. Shortly thereafter, those commercials were all pulled and they switched them to ones with images and changing from saying 'if you need help' to listing the actual emergencies such as fire, medical, theft, etc. Makes me wonder how many other kids called because of the same thing.

@OlivesGarden624 6 ай бұрын

Now hear me out- what if you single handedly made them change the commercials

@michellegray7892 6 ай бұрын

I mean possible, but I can't imagine being the only child to have done something just like that which caused the change@@OlivesGarden624

@kendalldilelott8611 4 ай бұрын

My mom was a dispatcher and she once got a call from two neighbors who HATED each other. One neighbor called the cops saying he was going to shoot the other neighbor because their dirt was blowing in his yard.... Keep in mind this was the WIND not the other neighbors fault.

@jimnoort5391 6 ай бұрын

I worked 911 for about 12 years. In one town I worked we had a woman call in to report her grass (yard) was stolen.........every winter after the first snowfall

$@fractalgem$

@fractalgem 3 ай бұрын

All the textures have been stolen!

@zillycat8534 10 ай бұрын

Hopefully the guy who called about the “gunshots” was just a jerk and not someone experiences PTSD attacks By the way, I love that you say “Story (number)” between your stories, so many Reddit channels don’t do this and it confuses me so badly. So I wanted to say thank you for that. I love listening to you talk while I do other things, so I need audio queues for the next story.

@ladylight545 5 ай бұрын

Some of these stories are why I have the non-emergency phone number for my local PD saved in my phone

@tabortoothtiger7580 6 ай бұрын

Not dumb particularly, but a cute story. My dad was an EMT before I was born. Anyways, while he was hanging around on standby, he gets a call out over the radio from dispatch saying, "hey lance, your son misses you. I think you should go see or call him." Turns out my brother, only 7 years old probably, decided, behind my mom's back, to call 911 to say he missed his daddy. Now, this was in the 90's so obviously cellphones weren't a thing, so the smartest thing he could think to do missing our dad, was to call 911. Well, my dad was friends with the ladies at dispatch, so they just told him over radio. lol I'm sure they probably laughed their butts off at that or thought it was cute. We live in a small town, so it probably was a cute call to brighten their pretty boring day. lol

@DM8Mydog 6 ай бұрын

Pro tip regarding the bit about immigrants and 911... not all languages have an equivalent word for "emergency". In some languages that word would get translated to something like 'urgent', 'fast' or 'expedient' with nothing indicating that there is potential reason to involve police/ems/etc or any harm to people being involved in the need to call for it. (ie. Greek is one I know there's lots of others). So, keep that in mind when leaving your kids with your non English speaking relatives for a date night etc.... you might want to explain that 911 is not a fast way to *call you*.

@tessiepinkman 6 ай бұрын

About the guy who called 911 when he was being chased by Border patrol; He might have called 911 because he was genuinely afraid to stop for the Border control. There's been *many* instances of them abusing people, so out of two "evils", he may have seen calling the cops on himself as the "lesser evil" - since then there's more eyes at the scene and a bad Border agent, or a bad cop, can't misbehave and abuse him as easily as if there's just one or the other. That's just my idea behind it.

@tristanswain8025 2 ай бұрын

Honestly that was my immediate thought, even though it’s a damn shame that it’s even something that needed to be considered.

@tessiepinkman 2 ай бұрын

@@tristanswain8025 There's a certain kind of person who seeks out those types of jobs (Police, Border Patrol, the Military, FBI etc) - people who enjoy power, and many times are quite sadistic. Some are even a fair bit racist, and that's *one* of the reasons they seek the job. There's of course people who seek those types of jobs with a hope that they can do something good for the world, but jobs that involve authority and power over other people tend to attract some very *bad* people. Others, who once were in the job out of all the right reasons, become jaded and lose some of their humanity and empathy and simply aren't the same person they were when they first started out. All of this is a problem that there *needs* to be invested time and resources into, first and foremost, find the people who's seeking these jobs for the wrong reason *before* they actually get to do the work - they need to be kicked out of the training before they can do any harm. And secondly, *serious* money needs to be put towards support for those who have all the right reasons to seek the job to begin with and still are good at their job, but who feels jaded and are starting to slip into *bad* behavior and thoughts about people and the job - before they become really hurtful/dangerous to other people, and a negative influence on others they work with. That's my thoughts on this issue, at least. If there's something glaringly obviously stupid or just plain wrong that you see, I'm more than happy to hear what you think about it and change the way I think. But I feel like this would be a winning strategy to make the world a safer and better place for everyone.

@Kpracn0va 9 ай бұрын

15:01 damn, was the guy’s name Schrödinger?

@silverriku12 6 ай бұрын

I was one of those "this isn’t an emergency but-" people. To be fair, I was 6 hours in a 10 hour overnight drive, had no idea where I was, and construction has completely blocked off the road and i couldn't back up because people were starting to stop behind me. I felt like a child being like "911?? what do i do???"

@anjachan 5 ай бұрын

absolutely the truth ... some people just don´t know better. We can still see it with humor.

@OriginalAustinOblivion 10 ай бұрын

U.S. Army here. I dispatch aero medevacs, or HH-60s not as Defense Emergency services Dispatch, but I receive the 9-lines and process them for the actual medevac unit. A soldier faked a heart attack to get out of field training, which is fair, Texas heat, it was 8 AM and already 98 degrees Fahrenheit. He then proceeded to have an actual heart attack just after. Our medic yote himself off the second floor of the clinic and tore three ligaments. Groundevac took our call from us, while my aircrew was literally hovering on approach and about to land. 🤦‍♂️

@Kagira2006 4 ай бұрын

The reverse but I once called 911 when I was around 4-5 because I dropped a "Mr. Bubble" bubble bath bottle into the tub and thought it would be funny to call up 911, barely able to talk from all the giggling and tell the dispatcher "Mr. Bubble is in trouble". I was too young to remember this but according to my mom who came to see who I was talking to and quickly got the phone away from me, the dispatcher was also trying not to laugh and I was grinning like i'm some sort of comedy genius.

@animetalk8132 10 ай бұрын

I need you to know I love ur voice Robert

@Washeddddd 3 күн бұрын

Thanks

@Era_Playz255 8 ай бұрын

"Pull the tire over" I CANT

@Tattooedgaymer 4 ай бұрын

My last job was as a central station operator. My favorite call came in during my 1st week working 3rd shift. The guy asked if our systems protected against ghosts and 5 year olds and how much are cameras. I just told him yes to 5 year olds but probably no to ghosts and for him to call sales in the morning. My coworker and I could not figure out how I kept my composure lol

@BarelyNoticedADD 3 ай бұрын

Somehow the "spires" in the lungs make more sense than spiders.

@JLMW24 8 ай бұрын

When I was like 5 or younger my cousins & I were playing around & I called 911 saying they were being bad (one yelling in the cord ‘no we’re not!’😅), someone else in the house noticed the call explained the situation & was told someone was going to come to the house. Thankfully nothing happened but it terrified my great grandmother & us kids, never happened again. Sorry Granny😢

@FizzieWebb 5 ай бұрын

regarding that last story with the loose tire, probably smarter than most realize, the siren would alert nearby drivers or pedestrians to an issue, and hopefully their initial reaction on hearing it is to clear the way.

@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness 3 ай бұрын

16:48 a similar language barrier actually caused a plane crash. Avianca 052, coming from Columbia to NYC. NYC airports are very busy and they were waiting for clearance to land. They waited a long time. They contacted air traffic control only a few times, because NYC air traffic control are a bit intimidating, nervously telling them they were running out of fuel and needed priority. The plane eventually ran out of fuel and crashed in a neighborhood. Not once did they use the word "emergency." They didn't even say "mayday" or "panpan" (a "panpan" call us like the urgentcare to mayday's hospital). As a woman in a documentary about the incident put it, "In Spanish, 'priority' means 'first.'" She, and likely the captain and first officer, thought that "priority" should have been enough of a warning. It was a tragic accident that could have been prevented with better training.

@sleepylionking1103 9 ай бұрын

Well if you live in America, you have the right to be paranoid on July 4th

@ladybetrayus69 4 ай бұрын

I lived in rural Florida there was gun shooting on the 4th of July

@michaelmorris1865 9 ай бұрын

Called the police over gunshots a few years ago, I saw the muzzle flash and guy walking around with a pistol and no shirt bear in mind it was -20° outside, city police showed up took a statement and insisted it must have been a tranformer blowing... not 30 minutes later the RCMP, city police and fire department come flying down the street. The guy lived at the end of the block and was high on meth shooting at hallucinations before setting his living room on fire. A few weeks later he blew up his house making meth.

@EhhhCanadian 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, city police in Canada aren't that good (assuming you're Canadian because RCMP)

@michaelmorris1865 9 ай бұрын

@EhCanadianAnimations yeah, Canadian.

@Aikano9 2 ай бұрын

There was recently a streamer that had to be hospitalized for ODing on melatonin gummies. Mistook them for regular gummies and downed the whole jar

@SewardWriter 5 ай бұрын

Last time I called 911, it was for a dude whose car broke down in an intersection. He looked terrified, trying to fix things, and people were getting AWFULLY close. Not sure it was 911 worthy, but they took it. Prior to that, it was some teenage asshole Logan Paul wannabe shouting at people through a megaphone while driving around in this massive lifted pickup. I hate people.