Re: Overheard on the scanner

In article <4l0g14hdk7ocp73067sivhot5trbhrut2o@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"I think I'm twenty-three at the correct house, but I'm not sure --
>there's only one house with a number on it."  
>
>Now how would you like to be the one lying on the kitchen floor near
>the phone that's fallen out of your hand while the dispatcher consults
>his notes for clues?    Put a &%*# number on your &%*# house!
>
>BTDT:  It also helps if you *rehearse* what you'll say when you yell
>for help.  "Next door to the high school" doesn't help a bit if you
>don't say *which* high school.   
>
>At least I did better than the guy who yelled "At my house!" in
>response to "Where is the fire?", quite indignant that the dispatcher
>was nagging him for details instead of getting the fire engines
>rolling.  (Despite zigging back and forth looking for smoke, the boys
>did get to his house just barely before the grass fire did -- but the
>house-owner panicked himself into the hospital.)  

Around here the 911 system will note the caller's phone number
and, if possible, find out the location from that.  Still, if he
has Caller ID Blocked (as so many in California do) or is on his
cell phone, that's not gonna help.

But yes, I think I would make the emergency call beginning with
"This is [address,] there's somebody breaking down the door" or
whatever, so that even if the guy proceeded to knock me out the
gendarmes would know where to go.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]