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Monday, November 12, 2007

Say WHAAAAAAT?

Saturday at work, my work partner took one of the more bizarre 911 calls I've ever heard of. (In case you don't know, I'm an EMS/911 dispatcher.) Anyhow, she got a call from a person who said they were outside the hospital after being at the ER, and wanted an ambulance to take them home. Yes, they called 911 for an expensive taxi ride! When my partner questioned further, and also pointed out the obvious, that 911 is for emergencies and this wasn't an emergency, the person seemed vague about where they were exactly. My partner called the ER to see if they knew where the caller might be, thinking they were outside ER or had recently left. ER finally located the caller--still IN the ER. The person was still in the ER bed and had used an ER wall phone to dial 911 and ask for a ride home!

4 comments:

Meesh said...

wow. I am speechless!

sis said...

omg, now that's some nerve....so what happened? did they call him a taxi instead?? ;-)

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Anonymous said...

The person is obviously senile. Sounds normal for someone with AZ or Parkinson dementia.

vegiemama said...

To anonymous: no, not suffering from dementia. In EMS lingo, they're what's called a "regular."