09 August 2005

911, do you have an emergency? Well to bad!!

I called 911 last night.
A friend called me as she was walking home around 9:45PM.
Some weirdo jumped out of a bush and wouldn’t leave her alone.
I put Amy on 3-way and called 911. She told the dispatcher the problem and the dispatcher responded with “You called Arlington County, she is in Fairfax County. We can’t help you.”
Then the dispatcher gave me a 9 digit number to call.
So I am glad I had a pen.

5 comments:

Christina said...

That's horrible!
Once I was driving to work and I saw a guy get jumped and pulled into a van (obviously against his will). I live in PA but was crossing into Jersey, so when the dispatcher finally answered, it was the New Jersey police station. They told me to call the 10 digit PA number. By that time, the guy and his assailants were God knows where.

caprice said...

ohmigod!!
that is really really bad. i am surprised by the police but not the jersey part. i have quite a story about jersey that i will one day blog.

Cressy said...

holy shit. that's really freaky. And it's even more freaky that you're told to hang up and dial another number!

caprice said...

thank god for pens. make sure you always have one!

caprice said...

well actually, the fact that we had gps cell phone is what made this happen. my cell phone is still KY based so my gps connected me to arlington since that's where i live and where i was phisically standing. but amy was standing in fairfax so she would have had to call from her cell phone to get fairfax police. so the reality is that the gps only made it more difficult.