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A customer dials 911 and tells them he needs his grass cut
Besides being a paramedic I also have a lawncare and landscape company. A couple of days ago I am at work at the fire station, when my cellphone rings. I recognized the number as our dispatch center. I answer and the dispatcher tells me one of my clients dialed 911. When they asked him what his emergency was he told them he has lost my phone number and needs his grass cut. He asked if they would be so kind as to forward the message to me. The dispatchers failed to see the humor in his request, although I thought it was pretty funny. I may be the first lawncare service ever dispatched by 911.
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04-06-2010, 11:24 PM
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I don't recall having ever seen lights or sirens on a riding mower...
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04-07-2010, 12:20 AM
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Wow...
I sit on the other end of that phone, and I'd have been unimpressed as well.
Requests like that get told, "No, you want FOUR-one one."
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04-07-2010, 06:19 AM
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Ha! Too funny. Did you client get charged for misuse of 911??
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04-07-2010, 06:51 AM
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Nuttin' personal Barb & I appreciate your effort...
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04-07-2010, 11:18 AM
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He didn't get in any trouble. He is in his late 80s. I guess he thought if he dialed 911 he could speak to me directly.
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04-07-2010, 11:49 AM
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Ha! Too funny. Did you client get charged for misuse of 911??
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If not he should have. Just where in the name of Gussies girdle are peoples minds?
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04-07-2010, 04:07 PM
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Ya' know, the old coot shouldn't have done it but sometimes things just ain't right and you still gotta' laugh.
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04-07-2010, 06:06 PM
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About 10 years ago we were dispatched to the typical "assist the elderly". The normal response per our SOP's was a patrol car, an ambulance with an EMT and a Paramedic, and an Engine company with 4 firefighters.
We get to the 2nd floor of a private residence, at 3 am mind you, and find an HUGE elderly woman laying down in bed with the TV blaring loudly. The fire officer asks her what's the issue, and she proceeds to tell us "my remote control does not work and I can't shut the tv off" Say what?!?! You gots to be kiddin'!!!!!
You had a over a million dollars worth of apparatus and personnel roll at 3 am for a dead remote?????
We shut the tv off, and left.
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About 10 years ago we were dispatched to the typical "assist the elderly". The normal response per our SOP's was a patrol car, an ambulance with an EMT and a Paramedic, and an Engine company with 4 firefighters.
We get to the 2nd floor of a private residence, at 3 am mind you, and find an HUGE elderly woman laying down in bed with the TV blaring loudly. The fire officer asks her what's the issue, and she proceeds to tell us "my remote control does not work and I can't shut the tv off" Say what?!?! You gots to be kiddin'!!!!!
You had a over a million dollars worth of apparatus and personnel roll at 3 am for a dead remote?????
We shut the tv off, and left.
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mike...you made no mention of revival efforts on the remote....hee
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04-08-2010, 01:27 AM
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I'd have been unimpressed as well.
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+1
80 years old or not. My father-in-law once told me that as you get older your body fades, but your mind is always young and sharp (barring any illness).
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04-08-2010, 02:23 AM
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Good story.
Here's another, maybe a relative:
A few years back, a lady called the LAPD Hollywood station. It seems that about an hour or so earlier that day, she left her wallet on top of a gas pump somewhere in Hollywood (where the longevity of misplaced wallets may be measured in seconds).
Since she was calling from a location some 40-50 miles east of Los Angeles, she asked the desk officer to dispatch police to the gas station to look for her wallet.
Predictably, the desk officer refused her request.
Predictably, the lady made a "personnel complaint" against the desk officer.
It's Hollywood, Jake...
(to paraphrase a line from "Chinatown").
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