From Actual 9-1-1 Calls

globalspot28

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From Actual 9-1-1 Calls

The following exchanges are taken from transcripts of actual 9-1-1
emergency calls:

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Caller: "I'd like to make a unanimous complaint,
so don't use my name."
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Caller: "I'm reporting a deer on the road. I almost hit it."
Call-taker: "Is the deer alive?"
Caller: "Oh, no, it's run over. Many, many cars. Again and again, and - OH NO!!! NOT AGAIN!"
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Caller: "Am I talking to a real person, or this a recording?"
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Caller: (irate) "That's 'W' as in Williams and 'Y' as in why."
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Caller: "We might (cough) need the fire department here (cough)."
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Caller: "Is it okay for a civilian to take a person to the hospital, or does the ambulance have to do it?"
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Caller: "He's not breathing!"
Call-taker: "Can you get the phone close to him?
Caller: "WHY? You want to hear he's not breathing, too?"
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Caller (on realizing the police are on the way):
"Get the keg outta here, dude!"
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Call-taker: "Does she have any weapons?"
Caller: "Well, she has real long finger nails."
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Call-taker: "We'll need a description of him."
Caller: "He's a lawyer."
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Caller: "No, she just didn't fall...I helped her!"
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Complaint about a stolen mailbox:
Call-taker: "What is your address?"
Caller: "It's gone."
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Caller: "I'm scared, I just got a Ouija board for my birthday, and now there's writing on my wall and I can't get it off......this thing is going back to K-Mart first thing in the morning!
 

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Before my dad became a firefighter he was a dispatcher. He had some interesting stories as well. People can be so stupid!
 

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Funny thing is..i have had many people ask me if i was a recording, or a real person o_O with my job.
 

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The secretary at the agricultural Extension Service where I worked used to get some humdingers for calls, as well. I remember one which especially cracked everyone up. The caller said "I got syphilis in my garden and I wanted to know what I should do." (What she obviously meant was that she had symphilids, a garden pest.) The secretary wanted in the worst way to respond, "Well, if you got syphilis in your garden, you need to be more careful what you do in your garden!"
 

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Originally Posted by twofatcats

The secretary at the agricultural Extension Service where I worked used to get some humdingers for calls, as well. I remember one which especially cracked everyone up. The caller said "I got syphilis in my garden and I wanted to know what I should do." (What she obviously meant was that she had symphilids, a garden pest.) The secretary wanted in the worst way to respond, "Well, if you got syphilis in your garden, you need to be more careful what you do in your garden!"
 
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