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| Top 10 Non-Emergency 911 Calls Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:12 AM PST No Wedding Bells, Just Police Sirens Commitment-phobic? Don't tell that to Clarksville, Tenn., resident Hee Orama, 34, who decided she'd had enough of her boyfriend's equivocating on the way to the altar. Orama made repeated calls to police complaining that her significant other would not make an honest woman of her. Even after being told that her single status did not qualify as an emergency, she kept calling, until police arrested her on Nov. 4. Orama had also been taken into custody the week prior for calling 911 because she couldn't find her car. Chill, Officer On April 21, 2006, Edward Sanchez called 911 with a strange request. It seems the Michigan police officer had pocketed some marijuana seized during an arrest and baked it into pot brownies. He hadn't, however, counted on a drug-induced fit of panic. "I think we're dying," Sanchez told the dispatcher. "We made brownies, and I think we're dead. Time is going by really really really really slow." Sanchez escaped prosecution by offering to resign from the force. Plan A Was Arresting Herself Granton, Wisc., woman Mary Strey did the right thing — sort of. After a night of brandy and Cokes at various neighborhood taverns, the 49-year-old got into her car but soon realized she was in no shape to drive. So she called 911 on herself. "Somebody's really drunk driving down Granton Road," she reported. "Are you behind them?" the dispatcher asked. "No," the woman replied, "I am them." Strey wins points for getting herself off the road before causing a serious accident, although as her cousin David Strey told reporters later, "It would have probably been cheaper if she'd backed off one step and not gotten in the car." Another Dirty Politician An Ohio man called 911 in May 2009 after his live-in adult son refused to clean his messy bedroom. Andrew Mizsak, a 28-year old member of the Bedord, Ohio school board who lived in his father's basement, was reportedly "crying uncontrollably" when he promised police he would clean his room. His father declined to press charges, saying he didn't want to hurt his son's political career. Gee, thanks, Dad. A McDonald's Order Goes Horribly Awry On Memorial Day 2009, Raibin Osman, a 20-year-old man from Aloha, Ore., called 911 with an unusual complaint: a box of orange juice had been omitted from his younger brother's order at a McDonald's drive-thru. Upset that the teller declined to rectify the alleged mistake, Osman called the cops to complain, adding that a McDonald's employee had mocked his brother's accent. According to a county sheriff, Osman was charged with improper use of 911 after he failed to listen to deputies explain that the emergency number was reserved for emergencies. He spent a night in jail and was released the following day. How to Open a Door If only every rescue were this easy. A Florida woman called 911 saying she was stuck inside her car with the windows up in a Walgreen's parking lot. Her engine wouldn't start, and it was getting hot. The 911 operator's advice? Unlock the door, and pull the handle. Presto. We Don't Enforce Cheeseburgers, Ma'am Police officers do a lot for the public — but supervising fast food orders is not generally one of them. An admirably level-headed 911 operator in California refused to send officers to help out a woman who wasn't having it "her way" at Burger King. A Headline John McCain Didn't Need Apparently miffed at being stuck in traffic, presidential candidate John McCain's younger brother Joe called 911 in the fall of 2008 after getting stuck in traffic near Washington's Wilson Bridge. To Protect, To Serve and To Tutor Math is tricky, so a 4-year-old girl thought the nice folks at 911 might help out with some subtraction problems she was focused on. The dispatcher seemed happy to oblige. I Love a Man in a Uniform It's one way to look for a date. After police officers visited Lorna Dudash's home in 2006 and asked her to turn down her music, the apparently lonesome 45-year-old woman called 911 to ask dispatchers to send one of the officers back. "He was the cutest cop I've seen in god knows how long," she confided to the dispatcher. "It's not very often a good-looking man comes to your doorstep."  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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