[audio/video] Strange calls and other 911-related tidbits

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Audio of people calling 911 regarding:

• a woman wants to know a quiet place to sit
• a woman wants to know if its safe to put a turkey at 200 degrees
• a man needs someone to get ice off his windshield
• a funny police chase
• a woman is watching a movie of a guy beating someone with a bat
• a ‘rude’ woman won’t get a dollar refund for her taco

George Clooney’s motorcycle accident 911 call.

911 caller arrested for wanting to know the names of police officers because they were cute.

Emergency calls from a hospital about Edith Rodriguez, the woman who died from being overlooked in emergency room (I remember seeing this on the news but never heard the 911 tapes).

• from an onlooker
• from the woman’s husband
• from the news cast

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A Dispatcher’s Plea: “No, I Am Not 911!”

No, I am not 911!

I am a public safety dispatcher who fields emergency and non-emergency calls from the public. I dispatch law enforcement, fire or emergency medical help, and coordinate the activity of field units by radio. I also handle many other duties to assist the public and members of the public safety agencies for whom I work.

“911″ is the telephone number that you dial when you have a life-threatening emergency, and you need help quickly. The number was selected to allow quick dialing and direct routing to the nearest public safety communications center. It’s maintained by the local telephone company and consists of computers and switching gear to accept your call, route it to my communications center and, in most cases, display your address and telephone number.

I am a person. 911 is equipment. Please don’t use the term “911″ when you intend to refer to me. No one likes to be referred to as a piece of equipment. For example, don’t say, “I talked to 911 and they said….” Instead, say that you, “dialed 911 and talked to the dispatcher.” That makes me feel more like a valuable person.

And please don’t use “911″ to encompass everything that I do. Handling 911 calls is a critical part of my job, but it’s just one small portion of the many tasks that I perform.

The majority of the calls I handle are non-emergencies. People call with parking problems, barking dogs, questions about the law, and just advice on how to handle an everyday life situation. I help track all the activity performed by the officers, deputies, firefighters and EMS personnel by writing logs or entering information into computers. I make telephone calls for tow trucks, taxis and assistance from alarm companies. I coordinate responses when our jurisdiction needs help from other agencies, including the state police, county sheriff, transit and university police, the FBI or Coast Guard. At some agencies, I may also greet visitors at the police department’s front counter, or assist in booking prisoners into the jail.

As you can tell, there are literally scores of tasks that a public safety dispatcher performs. It’s not all “911.”

So, call 911 if you have an emergency. But please don’t call me “911.” I’m a public safety dispatcher.

Thank you.

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Footage of a collapsing roller coaster.

 

 

[audio] “Welcome to the automated relationship replacement hotline”

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This is both creative and hilarious!

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Transcribed from CBC Wiretap, Season 6, “Patent Pending” (4 m 11 sec):

Welcome to the automatic relationship replacement hotline, prototype 1.4…Patent Pending

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I’m here to help you through this difficult time.

If you’ve recently ended a romantic relationship, press 1; if you believe yourself to be suffering from empty-nest syndrome, press 2. <button pressed> You have pressed 1–ended romantic relationship.

If your friends are tired of hearing you complain and you would like some time to lament your fate, please do so after the tone.  To forgo this feature, press 9.  <button pressed>  You have pressed 9.

Let’s proceed.

If you would like to hear  a well-meaning but ultimately ineffectual pep talk, press 1; if you would like to proceed directly to the substitute love function, press 2. <button pressed> You have pressed 2.

To massage the back of MY neck with affection, press 1.   To squeeze my hand, press 2.  <button pressed> You have pressed 1.  It felt nice.

If you would like to me to tousle your hair in a return show of affection, press 1; if you would like me to verbally assure you, press 2. <button pressed> You have pressed 2–You’re the best!

If you would like to be told that I love you, press the * key;  to forgo this feature, press 9…Are you still there?  <button pressed> You have pressed the * key– I love you.

To tell me you love me back, press 1; to forgo this feature, press <button pressed> You have pressed 1.  You love me.  Thank you.

To quantify your love, enter the amount of love you have for me on the key pad, followed by the pound key.  <four buttons pressed> You have entered 999.  You really love me very much.  Thank you.

To nuzzle your face into my hair and tell me all your hopes and dreams, press 1; to confide in me your secret fears, press 2. <button pressed> You have pressed  2.

If you’d like a moment to curl up in a fetal ball on the couch, bed or floor, press 9;  to immediately record your fears into our database, press <button pressed> You have pressed 9…I will wait…please press 7 when you are ready… <button pressed>

Before we begin, if you would like to me play some instrumental music to underscore your pain, press 1 <button pressed> You have pressed 1–Let’s proceed. <melancholy music plays> Go ahead; tell me your fears <more music> Please proceed…Are you still there?  <music> You may begin at any time…I am waiting…I am patiently waiting…please continue…<fade out>

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To hear the audio file, click here, expand season 6 and then look for the file called “Patent Pending.”

Enjoy!

Boy calls 911 to get help with math problem [audio]

This is so cute.  A four-year-old boy calls the police to ask for help with a math problem.  Towards the end you hear the  mother scolding her son for calling 911.

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American Idol reunites Celine & Elvis [audio/video]

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Watch Celine Dion and Elvis Presley sing a duet at the American Idol Gives Back show.  Celine appeared to walk out and stand next to Elvis as the two sang “If I Can Dream.”  It was all done with a hologram that was said to have cost between $50,000 and $100,000 to create.  Prior to the performance, Celine practiced with an Elvis impersonator.

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McNuggets shortage causes woman to call 911 [audio/photo]

A McNuggets “Emergency”

Floridian called 911 three times over McDonald’s chicken shortage

MARCH 3–Angered that her local McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food “emergency.” Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier–citing a McDonald’s all sales are final policy–would not give her a refund. [To listen to Goodman's 911 calls, click here, here, and here.] When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, “This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn’t have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one.” Goodman noted, “I called 911 because I couldn’t get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets,” according to the below Fort Pierce Police Department report. That logic, however, did not keep cops from citing Goodman for misusing the 911 system. Even after being issued a misdemeanor citation, Goodman contended, “this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency.” The McDonald’s devotee is seen at right in a mug shot snapped after a previous encounter with police. Last month, a Florida man was arrested after he called 911 to complain about his displeasure with a Burger King combo meal. (2 pages)

Source: The Smoking Gun

Final Salute ~ A tear-jerking love story [audio/photos/video]

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The photo at the right is appropriate for ‘heart-breaking news’ alert.  If you love love stories, this is a must.  Get the kleenex out…I’m unable to type for the tears so I’ll just let you visit the site. It’s all about Marine 2nd. Lt. Jim Cathey and his widow (little did I know that this happened in 2006).

The pictures were one thing but listening to the widow of this marine tell her story was the clincher, for me.  And then to hear what objects she placed in his casket and how Major Steve Beck described Lt. Cathey’s tear-soaked uniform was more than I could bear.

Show your respects here.

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Now, if you’ll excuse me…

Listen to mosquito mate to the tune of “Feelings” [audio]

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Love is in the air–literally. When the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are looking for a mate, they create an overtone.  How did researchers figure this out?

First, the insects were anesthetized. “You make them a little bit chilly,” Hoy says, “then they don’t fly or walk around.” Next, he and his colleagues applied a small amount of superglue to the backs of the test mosquitoes, then affixed them to a tiny tether and suspended them in the air.

Once the mosquitoes began to beat their wings and produce their gender-specific flight tones, the scientists moved the insects close to each other.

The duet they produce (as you’ll hear in the audio) matches the pitch in the Morris Albert song “Feelings.”

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Justice Harry Blackmun [audio/photos/video]

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This is a very interesting site dealing with Justice Harry Blackmun.  It has photos, and audio and video clips of various topics relating to him.

Topics like:

• Tensions with Chief Justice Berger over the Nixon tapes
• Humor in the court
• What justices do when arguments get boring
• and more

Read it all here.

Toddler gets car keys lodged in his eye [audio/video]

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Watch this MSNBC news clip of a toddler who had car keys lodged in his eye.  It has an audio clip of the 911 call and xrays of the embedded keys.  The boy was transported by medevac to hospital.

Has your child ever had anything embedded in its body?

Environmental sound effects

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This website has sound effects including a typewriter, a pencil scratching the paper, whales, fans, planes, lightning, a purring cat, crickets, trains, and lots more.  It’s great for those who suffer from tinnitus and need something else to focus on.  And, it’s nice to listen to while your surfing the web.  Check it out!

Siberian researchers record sounds of hell [audio]

I came across this audio file years ago.  Here’s an excerpt…

A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth’s deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth’s surface.

‘The incident was absolutely unreal; the Soviets cried out in terror,’ says Mr. Nummedal. Later that night, he saw ambulance crews circulating in the community. A driver he knew told him that they had been told to sedate everybody with a medication known to erase short term memory. The Soviets use this drug in the treatment of shock victims.

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Do you know why Jacques Costeau, the famous underwater explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime before he died? It is said that he stopped because he had heard in one of the underwater caves he was exploring, the sounds of people screaming.

There was also another time, when one of his men, who was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda Triangle, also had a similar experience. He signaled to be brought up immediately. After being revived from his shock, he told others of his frightening experience of hearing “Screams of people in pain”.

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Here’s a site among many disputing its reality.

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