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I've not called them. but I have been adjacent to people that have.

I have always figured that If I need to call it would be an actual emergency I would likely just call and put the phone down while I start doing first aid or whatever. They can ping my phone and send someone. I am not going to waste time talking to an operator when I could be doing some actual help.

A few years ago some dude crashed a quad full tilt into a tree in my front yard. His buddy was on the phone with 911 by the time I got to him. I looked the dude over and there wasn't much I could do. He had a lot of broken bones and some internal bleeding but was alive and breathing. I did notice his helmet was all fucked up and askew, but it was hard to tell if his neck was fucky or not. So I just held his c-spine for the 20-30 minutes it took for the EMTs to get there. Then the fuckers didn't even take over. I held that guy's head for another 20-30 minutes it took for the helicopter to get there. I asked them if they were going to take over, and they just said no, you've got it.

In retrospect I should have just got up and went back to what I was doing.
 
Called several years ago after watching a dude roll his Grand Cherokee into the median going north bound on I91. All his tools got ejected into the left South bound lane. Appeared to be a carpenter. I was traveling south bound in the right lane. I ran up verified he was ok and the only person in the car. He said he was good. Told dispatch he was ok and the mile marker and left. It was down pouring and not in a safe spot. People were swerving around his tools and running them over. I wanted no part in standing there any longer than I needed to.
 
I've called in drunks. Got asked to stay with one once who was speeding and swerving and had hit a few different things. That was fun, chasing a pos ultimate type car in my f350, with the permission of the cops:laughing:.

Did an update on my phone and it started pocket dialling emergency services, eventually an operator told me how to turn it off, and asked that I tell everyone else on my site the same info, because they were getting multiple calls a day from our site.
 
I’ve called twice.

1) When my oldest son was a toddler he had a seizure and his body temp skyrocketed. Called for an ambulance. The wife was freaking out with him so I handed her the phone and took over with my son since I had first aid and CPR training and she didn’t.

2) Sitting at a red light and watched a car turn left right in front of another car. Bam, gnarly accident. Called 911 but, apparently, so did everyone else at the intersection. They were getting the info from someone else and there were several others who were checking on the drivers so I continued on my way.
 
Remember the nine eleven fiasco with kids? They couldn't find the 11 on phones so the "grown ups" had to revise the saying to nine one one-
 
KarlVP said:
"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"
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arse_sidewards said:
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.
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One time my ex and I were having a "heated discussion" while she's driving her stupid fucking ford ranger. I kicked the bottom of the dash and sure enough, activated the fuel pump shutoff. She was LIVID that I killed her truck. Didnt think of it at the time so called AAA and had it towed to a shop for diagnosis.

Later that night I'm recalling that ford's have that shit from some drift buddies in mustangs. Sure enough I head over to the shop in the morning and ask them if I can try something real quick. Locate the switch and reset it. BAM, running again. Saved my ass $$$ that day.


granitestatedestroyer said:
In retrospect I should have just got up and went back to what I was doing.
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No shit, fuck them. And unless dude's your buddy, fuck him too. :homer:
 
I called about my truck getting broken into and the column chipped.

They never showed up.

I called about being side swiped by a drunk.

They never showed up.
 
A buddies sister live behind a bar in an area full of people who probably vote democrat. At 2am she hears a bunch of shots, she lo at her security cameras and counted 23 shots. She call the cops, they show up and by now everything is all clear and nobody is around. The look at her and say “why did you call us” they then wrote her a ticket for misuse of 911.
She went to court and the judge threw it right out.
 
My most notable time calling 911 was about 4 years ago. I had just gotten back to Michigan from living in Utah for 6 months and hadn't officially gone back into service at the FD. Was driving home from work and saw some decent smoke coming from a property, and there were 3-4 kids (oldest maybe 12?) out by the road waving. I pulled over and the oldest told me her house was on fire and their parents were in town. I did a quick look around and.....it was certainly on fire. I called it in, then jumped in my car and drove to the fire station and grabbed my gear and got on the truck. Got to be one of the first putting water on the fire.
Most of the folks on my FD didn't even know I was back in town yet.
 
i feel like i've called in a drunk driver once but man i cant remember actually doing it

i have called in 2 fires in oakland at like 5am tho, one car on fire on a surface road next to the freeway, and one vegetation fire/building fire also somewhat near the freeway

i think i've called in a couple car wrecks ive seen as well, pass them going like 80mph and then realize its just one car thats wrecked and i get that feeling that no one is coming to help them

i tell you what one of the last ways i want to go out is dieing on the side of the freeway at 5am with hundreds of people passing by me too busy to even help
 
only time I can remember calling 911, actually *55 which is just a direct line to MO Highway Patrol was for a wrong way driver on 50 highway. Thank God I was in the travel lane and not the passing lane. I come over a little rise in the road and there is headlights coming at me in the left/passing lane! :eek:
I immediately dial *55 and report it. the dispatcher says I am about the 3rd or 4th to call. Asks me if they are still driving and about that time I see the car head on into another driver. I had pulled off on a side road where I could see while on the phone.

It was about 8pm on a Friday night and full dark. IIRC it was a dude that was drunk and the elderly lady he hit was in the hospital for a while but survived. The wrong way driver died at the scene.
 
I just thought of a funny one that happened last year. My cousin that lives on the opposite end of the county from me lives on a ranch that the family homesteaded. It's 2700+ acres and despite being in eastern Colorado, there are a bunch of little canyons running through it. The original homestead is in sort of a deep little valley at one end of the property and is where the cattle still get watered etc... He lives in a modern house by himself on a hill at the other end of the property (approx 1.5 miles away as the crow flies).

There were reports of one nasty blizzard headed our way, and they were right. He gets off work from the day job and heads down to the valley to get cows watered and prep for the storm which has already started. By the time he leaves, it's total whiteout and 70mph winds. He gets about 1/8 of mile down the two-rut unmaintained road and buries the pickup in a snowdrift. He initially tries digging out but realizes that the snow is blowing in faster than he can shovel.

He begins walking back to his house but the lack of visibility hinders that and he discovers he's in one of the deadend canyons. He's lived there his entire life but the wind is blowing snow in so hard he can't see to get himself home. He tries to get Google maps to pop up on his phone so he can guide himself home that way but there is no service in that valley and barely any at his house. I don't know of anyone that has ever been able to make a phone call from there.

As a last-ditch effort, he tries calling 911 and to his surprise, they answer. The dispatcher is a gal that he went to school with and he explains the situation to her. She is able to guide him to the house by tracking his phone. His phone died right as he got the house so he's a pretty lucky sumbitch. I still give him shit about being on his property and having to call 911 to find his way home but it's a good thing he did, that part of the county was completely shut down and without power for 5 days.
 
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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Then why do they ask for my name and number?
 
I've called for drunk drivers, and for a homeless guy on a freeway overpass, standing on the rail. The most memorable time was when I called in a wellness check on an elderly neighbor. Normally saw him every other day or so, then didn't see him for a few weeks. Then the house started to smell, bad. Cops came, and said all they could do was look in windows. Useless, I had done that a week ago. The cops said they had been to the house a week earlier to do a wellness check, called in by the old guys sister. Anyway, turns out the old guy crashed his car, was hospitalized, didn't tell his family or anyone, and we all thought he died in the house. The rotting smell was a bunch of groceries. So they put him in a home, sold the house to a flipper, who did the worst job i have ever seen, and techies bought the place for 1.2 in late 2021. Now is worth only 950, sucks for them.
 
Man I’ve called 911 a lot 😆. Called in someone getting their ass kicked on the side of the road, A handful of drunk drivers, a jackass passing on a 2 lane road and running oncoming traffic off the road, a median fire on the interstate, another fire on the side of the freeway that was almost to some apartment buildings I was riding my bike near..

Most memorable was when we lived in town and were unloading the truck one afternoon getting home from a camping trip and our elderly neighbor was laying in his driveway. We got him inside his house and he kept telling us he had too much to drink at the Elk Lodge. Sorry Gary we’re not buying it and called 911. He got all pissed off and didn’t want to go in the ambulance. Fortunately one of the EMTs was a vet and recognized Gary”Sarge” as a vet and starting talking to him about the military and that earned his trust enough to agree to go in.

A few days later Gary came by and thanked us, said they found out he had a heart condition and that we probably saved his life that day.

I don’t miss living in town but I do miss living next door to Gary.
 
Couple of months back I was on my way to pick up my son from school. As I round a bend I catch sight of something odd that took a minute to register in my head what it was. A produce refer truck had drifted onto the shoulder and dropped the trailer tires into the ditch which pulled the whole rig over onto its side. It had apparently just happened because as I pulled over the driver was u buckling himself and started climbing out the hole where the windshield had been. I turned on my emergency lights on the truck and called it into 911. Then I put my high vis jacket on and directed traffic around the truck while I waited for PD and fire to arrive on scene. During this time, I noticed that the refer compressor unit that had broken free was still running sitting on the road and that it appeared to be gushing fuel from a leak, so I told the driver to shut it off before it turned into a much larger issue. I stayed on scene until Police and fire arrived and handed it off to them before heading on to pick my kid up.



Another one years ago
Buddy and I were on our way home from a day wheeling at Corral Canyon in CA. Watched a car in the eastbound lane of route 8 going the opposite direction of us drift off the shoulder, shoot up an embankment and roll 3 times. We stopped, drove across the median to the other side, called 911 and got the lady out of the car. She wasn’t too bad. Laceration to the head seemed to be the worst of her injuries. Turns out she had fallen asleep at the wheel.
 
I forgot this one from a month ago. there was a tweaker with a lug wrench in the substation behind my house. She was tweaking super hard, yelling, raving, hitting things with the lug wrench, trying to loosen bolts etc. I called it in, meanwhile, she tries to climb out, going between the barbed wire and the chain link, and gets stuck in the barbed wire strands. She was stuck thrashing in the barbed wire for several minutes, i hate tweakers so it was wonderful to watch. Eventually she got out as the PD got there and they picked her up.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Lots of posts about calling in drunks, any calls to 911 for someone texting and driving? No? Why is that?
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Indoctrination.

Bunch of people here were easy to influence children in the 80s when MADD was screaming about that shit.

You ever notice how they go off on a bunch of "the law is the law, pay up" chest thumping every time they catch wind of someone getting fined for DUI at/around the limit yet they'll happily bitch when the same happens about speeding? Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
 
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My buddy got his car stolen and I was there to watch it happen.
College days, I was young and dumb. Middle of the afternoon. My friend was over visiting me at my crappy apartment complex with some friends and we were headed to the crappy apartment pool. As I'm grabbing some towels, he's hanging out with some other friends sitting out on the curb next to his car. At some point he set his keys down on the curb and when we all went down to the pool, he walked away from them. About an hour later as we're headed back, he realizes his mistake and runs up to find his keys. They're not there. He checks with the little head apartment office at the front to see if anyone turned them in, no luck. We say screw it and go about our day, but take my jeep instead of his car. Along the way, we stop by his place and grab his spare key, but as I pull into my apartment complex he says he wants to run into the main office one more time and see if anyone dropped off his other keys.

So I'm sitting there waiting for him to come back out when I watch some asshole drive his car of out the complex right in front of me. Fawk that, I leave him there and immediately follow the car out. I call 911 and tell dispatch that I just watched by friend's call get stolen, and that I'm following it now and give a description of car and lic number, as well as location. They say hold tight, they'll get someone there. They did not, in fact, get someone there. I followed this asshole for 10 miles through a heavily populated area and 3 different jurisdictions with no response. Dude gets on the freeway and I'm telling them they better get someone soon because my little jeep aint keeping up on the freeway if they notice me and run. We get off the freeway and drive right. by. the. fawking. police. station. Still no one there. dispatch asks me if I can pull up next to the car and tell me what the driver looks like... if safe of course. Sure whatever, I get in the lane next to them and that's when the dude looks over and sees me looking at him with a cell phone to my ear. He immediately busts a right turn down a surface street, I try my luck at the next right, only to have him blow by me at about 100mph. That's the end of that.

So that's when I learned that if I really want a decent response from the police to tell them I saw a dude waving a gun around.

Police found my buddy's car a few days later like 3 blocks from where he ditched me. It had some gang stuff carved into the paint and the stereo was hastily removed.
 
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Dethmachinefab said:
Lots of posts about calling in drunks, any calls to 911 for someone texting and driving? No? Why is that?
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I have no idea what people are actually doing in their cars. I've never called someone in for one serve, only lots of erratic sustained unsafe swerving. One swerve could be anything, spilled coffee, texting, spider crawled out of a crack, or toothy road head. Could happen to anyone. I think we are all just assuming the sustained bad driving was drunks, but we don't really know, maybe they are texting. We are just calling in people who are obvously a danger to others.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Lots of posts about calling in drunks, any calls to 911 for someone texting and driving? No? Why is that?
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besides the arse stuff.. DUI is easier to prove.

I ride a moto about 15,000 miles a year in the bay area mostly so see it all. I saw a guy double fisting his phone and staring straight down at his crotch dead to the world. This is while we are driving stop light to stop light in a school zone, during school things. I stare at him and he notices me, I shake my head at him. At the next light he yells at me that its a self driving car so its ok. Some peoples kids :shaking:
 
buzzbombxj said:
I have no idea what people are actually doing in their cars. I've never called someone in for one serve, only lots of erratic sustained unsafe swerving. One swerve could be anything, spilled coffee, texting, spider crawled out of a crack, or toothy road head. Could happen to anyone. I think we are all just assuming the sustained bad driving was drunks, but we don't really know, maybe they are texting. We are just calling in people who are obvously a danger to others.
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Well then it should be called out as so. Let's not contribute to the revenue generating scam that dwi's are.

75cruisin said:
besides the arse stuff.. DUI is easier to prove.

I ride a moto about 15,000 miles a year in the bay area mostly so see it all. I saw a guy double fisting his phone and staring straight down at his crotch dead to the world. This is while we are driving stop light to stop light in a school zone, during school things. I stare at him and he notices me, I shake my head at him. At the next light he yells at me that its a self driving car so its ok. Some peoples kids :shaking:
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I had an old lady merge into me while on a bike. Knocked on her window and it didn't even get her attention. I am guilty of texting on a bike, easier to stay on the road and use both hands to text. :flipoff2:
 
Dethmachinefab said:
I am guilty of texting on a bike, easier to stay on the road and use both hands to text. :flipoff2:
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Buddy of mine had a small Erickson phone that he would text on his bike one handed. Dropped it on the freeway so he hit the next exit and circled back. Still worked when he found it. :homer:
 
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Dethmachinefab said:
Well then it should be called out as so. Let's not contribute to the revenue generating scam that dwi's are.


I had an old lady merge into me while on a bike. Knocked on her window and it didn't even get her attention. I am guilty of texting on a bike, easier to stay on the road and use both hands to text. :flipoff2:
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If you say DUI even if its not, the cops are more likely to show up. Especially vs texting complaint.
Penetrode Offroad said:
Buddy of mine had a small Erickson phone that he would text on his bike on handed. Dropped it on the freeway so he hit the next exit and circled back. Still worked when he found it. :homer:
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Im too busy going mach jesus to text while on the bike :lmao:
 
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