Tuesday, August 08, 2006

"I wanted my whopper *with* cheese, dammit!"

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Only a third of 911 calls for help are actual emergencies, according to dispatchers who say some of the calls are simply wacky.

"People have called because they went through the drive-thru and their order was wrong," said California Highway Patrol dispatcher Dennis Kirchner. "People call because they're lost."


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Yikes. One can only imagine what kind of calls 411 gets as well...

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