I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet...That fact that this woman was calling because she couldn't keep her kids in line is what makes this so funny...The actual call is even funnier, if you've heard it... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_re_us/dispatcher_s_joke_1 911 Dispatcher Reprimanded Over Wisecrack Wed Apr 13, 3:36 PM ET U.S. National - AP WATAUGA, Texas - A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother's plea for help with an unruly child by saying: "OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?" "I admit what I did. It was stupid, it was inexcusable and I'm sorry," said dispatcher Mike Forbess. The woman, identified only as Lori in Wednesday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, said she recently phoned authorities after coming home to find her daughters fighting. She told the dispatcher that her 12-year-old had kicked a hole in the door. After Forbess' comment, the woman fell silent for about five seconds. "Are you there?" Forbess asked. "Excuse me?" the woman asked. Forbess, a dispatcher for five years at the Watauga Department of Public Safety, told her he was joking and apologized. But the woman was offended, and Forbess immediately told his supervisor what happened. "This type of response cannot be tolerated, and this letter shall serve as notice that any future unprofessional responses while answering the 911 line will be cause for termination," Police Chief David Van Laar wrote to Forbess. Watauga is a Fort Worth suburb of about 22,100 residents.
I threated child abuse on my dad and also that I would call the cops. My dad said, you don't need to call them, I'll drive you there. So he got in the car, and I got in, and we drove to the police station. Then we just sat cin the parking lot cause I chickened out.
They played the phone call this morning on 94.5 and I died laughing. The one that should be punished is the idiot that called 911 because she couldn't control her children.
My folks were the King and Queen of creative discipline. When any of us kids would misbehave in a restaurant, my Dad would make us sit out in the car, and pay the waiter extra to bring our food out to the car. What a mindf*ck that was for a seven year old!
Rome went off on this for about 1/2 hour on his show today...it was pretty funny...he also played the old OJ Simpson calls: PEDRO GUERRRRRERO...Hilarious.
Ummm, my parents heard about things like that and told me and my brother that if we ever did that, they would make sure the cops had a reason for coming over...We never even thought about it after that...
That is awesome, I am going to use this when I have kids. I can't believe how hard a time people have controlling the kids these days, it's ridiculous.
