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Ditchrunner

Ditchrunner

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The 911 outage thread got me to remember calling our 911 years ago.

I’m headed home from my rented shop late one night and a car almost clipped me running a red light. They happen to be heading my way so I follow along and watch them weave all over, can’t maintain speed, etc.
I call 911 and am trying to get them all the info I can when I notice a cop sitting at a red light. The car I’m following jumps the pedestrian curb bulge, just >< misses the front of the cop car, and jumps the sidewalk on the other side of the street before meandering back onto the pavement. Super trooper never looks up from his phone. :lmao:

I tell dispatch I’ll just holler at this cop. Had to lay on the horn to get his attention (while drunky is wandering down the road) and try to explain to him just how close he came to filling out an accident report for his cruiser.
He finally takes off after the car. I stayed on with dispatch until he caught up and confirmed plate number.

Never heard back, never got called into court.
 
Similar story. I'm just heading out from home when I notice a vehicle behind me swerving around some. Get over a little rise, I watch the vehicle go off the road behind me and roll over in a field. I pull over, call 911, tell them what I saw, I don't even remember what they said but they didn't tell me to stay so I continued on my way. Fire dept and ambulance are minutes away so I figured they'd deal with it. Read in the paper later it was a drunk chick. I never heard back from anybody about it either.
 
At my buddies property a while back, we were doing trail maintenance and left the gate open. 2 mexicans came in with brand new tacomas and apparently wheeled for a few hours before getting stuck in a mud hole at like 9pm. They called 911 on themselves for a tow truck, and nobody around here is willing to do off road recovery. The cops Called my buddy and he went up the next day and pulled them out, for $2000, cash up front.
 
Yota Up said:
I wouldn't know, I never give out my info like that.
Do you also share the practice of doing so? If so, perhaps your stupid will catch up to you one day.
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Have you used a phone in the last 20/30 or so years.... you know that number that shows up- yea there is a connection to that number and the person who is calling... like name/address etc. It's WILD! The .gov (aka 911) has access to all that information, aka who you are, where you live, where you are calling from...
 
My Brothers Ex GF was living with us and getting her certifications to be a 911 operator. One day she got a call that someone had found a dead body. Immediately, she goes into panic mode telling the caller to start doing CPR, asking if they are still breathing, and what was his location??? Dude with a straight voice said, "He hasn't been breathing for a while, I'm not touching it, and I'm outside YOUR building in the creek." Some drunk had strolled out of a bar, the night before, and passed out in the 4" river behind the high-rise police department building. She looked down and saw them, while on the phone with the man. Shook her up a little bit.
 
I have called quite a few times. Saw a truck start on fire on the side of the road a year ago, was on hold for probably 6-7 minutes before a person answered.

Maybe 6 years ago watched a hit and run. Wife called and we kept telling mile markers as they were driving away. Got a good look at the driver and after about 20 miles they pulled off on a side road. Cops pulled up and we waited for a few more cops before going and talking to them. Driver switched with a passenger since he had no license and a warrant. We described the driver and a cop took the statement, never heard what happened.

Decade ago I was driving to work at 530ish. Under and overpass waiting to make a left. Weird guy rolling around in the opposite lane like he is having a bad trip. Guy in the car next to me gets out to help. Oncoming car isn't paying attention and hits both. One goes under and the other over. Call 911 and tell them what happened as I continue to work.there were chunks of human on my truck after that one. Read in the news the guys that got out was a paramedic, both died. Worse regret is not flooring it into the oncoming traffic to stop them from hitting those people. Just sat there in shock thinking surely this person can see these two people in the road and will stop and then they didn't.
 
DozerDan82 said:
Have you used a phone in the last 20/30 or so years.... you know that number that shows up- yea there is a connection to that number and the person who is calling... like name/address etc. It's WILD! The .gov (aka 911) has access to all that information, aka who you are, where you live, where you are calling from...
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The fact that you had to explain that to him is mind blowing.
 
Once to report a car on it's lid in a deep ditch. I lived about 200 yards away from where the car was at the time, went home and grabbed a flashlight and checked the car before the cops came. It was empty.

Once by accident with a new iphone. I knew the dispatch lady and explained to her what happened and she laughed and said they get a lot of those.

Our son called them by accident on his phone one night at about 9pm. Cop showed up and we explained what happened. Same thing, he laughed and said they get a lot of accidental calls.

Another time I called to report a car weaving all over the road and almost hitting two cars head on. I followed them into town while on the phone with dispatch and lost them. Never heard if they caught them or not.
 
Heavy sigh


I have called in several drunk drivers.


The system is fucked, cops are terrible, courts are fucked, madd is a corrupt money grubbing shell of its previous self.

When I see a drunk on the road, like fucked up, not a .08001, I'd prefer to pitt them myself and carry on, but that would be felonious. So with a heavy heart, I make the call. It'd kill me to see the news later that they killed somebody's kid and I ignored it.


Fuck the police.

Yes I've called them:laughing:
 
Not my story but a good friend of mine.

He's driving I-5 in his brand new (45 miles on the odo) bright red Dodge 3500 and gets side swiped bumper to bumper.

He immediately pulls over and stops in the break down lane. Guy that hit him keeps on truckin'. So my buddy calls 911 as someone pulls in behind him and gives him the plate number of the guy that hit him. 911 operator says to stay put until the police arrive.

He sits there for over an hour pissed that his new truck is all fucked up and his phone rings. He picks it up thinking it's the police and it's the dude that hit his truck.

The conversation goes something like this

"hello..."

"yeah I'm calling about this truck I just hit on I-5 and need to give you my insurance information so you can get it to the guy I hit"

"uh this is the guy you hit"

Click.

Apparently the 911 operator got their wires crossed with phone numbers and gave the state police the wrong information. 911 contacted the dude and gave them my buddies number instead of the police. The guy thought he was calling the police.

My buddy just gave all the information to his insurance company and let them handle it.
 
I've called a handful of times.

Previous job I managed a bar/restaurant. Generally never called when a fight broke out. Have had to call for a few people that died or were in the process of.

Needed to have a cop come to the house to run the Vin on a vehicle. Called the station to try getting the to send someone out. They told me to call 911 and tell them it's not an emergency and they will dispatch from there. Called 911, explained what was told to me and what I needed done. Operator said "Those lazy a-holes are always having us do their job," then proceed to bitch some more while taking my info and getting someone on their way.
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
My work phone called 911 by itself the day I got unto the car accident. It started beeping and saying it detected a collision and was calling 911. I never actually talked to anybody but they called back and sent EMS and the police.
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Now that you mention it, My phone went into emergency countdown when i bottomed hard on a rock a few weeks ago but luckily i realized it in time.

Anyone else have that happen?
 
We were coming out of the river after doing some shooting, then some drinking... we got pulled over on the canal bank in a truck with no registration or insurance. He took our licenses and came back a little bit later, he said that his computer wasn't working and he let us go.
 
I've only ever called for administrative shit after calling the non-emergency line and being told to call 911. What a fucking waste of time. :laughing:

I turn all that emergency shit off in my phone for the same reason I jumper the inertia fuel cutoff switch in all my Fords.
 
Twice last summer I was working with my tractor and had my phone locked in my pocket. Apparently I had somehow woke it up and emergency dialed.

Both times I realized it 45 minutes later with a notification that emergency services had turned my GPS on and located me, a missed call from a local number, and a text telling me if I needed help to call 911.

Maybe they heard the tractor and could see with GPS that I was driving it. But they never sent help. I'm pretty fuct out here if I'm ever hurt to the point that I can't call.
 
Not a 911 call, but responder related:

I was coming home from work around midnight when I was 17 and was passing the parking lot for the local downtown bar. The red light caught me, and I glanced over to see a brand new Corvette idling with its lights on, with a dude leaned out the open driver's door hanging from the seatbelt with a big pile of puke on the ground. The light was long enough that I didn't see the guy move a muscle for a good minute or so.

The city police barracks were only 2 blocks up the street, so I figured I would do the right thing as a 17 year old graduate of the latest D.A.R.E class, and swing in there to let them know what was up.

As luck would have it, there were 2 cops standing in the parking lot smoking. I pulled up and told them what was going on, and immediately got the 3rd degree for being 17 and out after midnight. The one cop finally said something like, "Thats not our problem right now, you better get on home before you get yourself in trouble".
 
Not a 911 call for me but I worked at a rental yard and on the road out front, which was a major road, there was a guy passed out in the middle of the road. I threw the cop a hammer to bust the guys window out, and they drug him out the window, not very nicely. He was passed out drunk, in the middle of the road, at 10 AM.





another time back in my ricer shithead days, we were hanging out at a gas station, getting ready to go race, when a …person of color runs out with a lone heineken in his pants. We chase him over to the grocery store in the next plaza, and the cops show up so he tries to run into one of those dual door airlock entrance kinda deals at the entrance of the store, the inside door is locked, and the cops proceeded to pepper spray him and then take him to poundtown. Id forgotten about it until this thread. LOL
 
When you call 911 from a cell phone they have your cell number and within 25 seconds but often immediately they can ping your location as accurate. They would have to manually refresh the cell phone ping to quasi actively track you. Also if the 911 service subscribes to a software service they can then actively track you as long as you are on the phone with 911. This is helpful for walking people lost on a trail out of the woods but not injured. The tracking only works if you call 911 and not the non emergency line.

If you call 911 from a landline they get your phone number, address and name the phone line is under.
 
I called them once on myself I guess. I hit some ice and spun into the ditch, got stuck in a snowbank. cripple stuck in the snow right on the main drag in town, I assumed that calling the tow truck would result in cops getting called to distrubt traffic anyway, so I called them first :homer:


they called me once. Cows out on the road in the middle of the night. Guy said he had me on file as living at this address so he called to let someone know. I've always wondered if he got my name and address from the carry permit system or something, now I'm a little curious if it was on file from my other story
 
Called once for a forest fire, one person had already called in before me so they knew. Wasn't sure what other number to call.

Called once also for a rockslide blocking highway, got around it barely in my rig but road mostly blocked for any normal traffic. Drove about 15 miles before getting service and gave them the milemarker.
 
Called last winter after a drunk native lobbed a huge chunk of ice and went through a thankfully. Dump truck windshield while we were doing snow haul. Passenger side thankfully but she almost took out another car, causing them to crash in the snow berm.

Was lovely watching APD Bobby Boocshay tackle him.
Co worker had to go in for a whizz quizz and was a "reportable incident" on CDL.
 
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