I've seen some pretty strange 911 calls through the years. There's the Andy Dick 911 call. You think that's strange? How about that mother who called 911 because her son wouldn't stop playing video games. 911 isn't only being used by strange Americans. It's being used to reduce family practice expenses as well. And the hospital implemented patient initiated rapid response is like a 911 system in and of itself.
Indiscriminate use of 911 communications is becoming so rampant that some cities are actually charging for 911. I don't blame them one bit. There are people in this world who call 911 for some of the strangest, dumbest and most ridiculous reasons ever. Like these people who called 911 because nobody delivered their newspaper that morning.
If I was that 911 operator, I would have told them to go to their nearest ER.
