| jeffgrant |
02-20-2009 12:56 AM |
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Originally Posted by look 171
(Post 4496925)
One time I saw a young man running with a weapon of some sort to a waiting car from a little market with people yelling and screaming after him as I was pulling into a starbucks in the same mall. I followed that car and called 911. The Freaking operator ask so many damn questions such as did you see the man rob the store? Did you see the gun? How do you know he robbed the store? The same thing over and over again. I felt like if I was the criminal. I follow them for more then 5 miles when I was in the phone. not once did the operator say that he will send the cops. I have to give the location of the car and licence plate 4-5 times. I don't think he ever wrote it down. He did seem to care but kept drilling me about how do i know if they were the robbers and if I see it happened. Pissed me off. You try to be a good citizen and the cops don't want to take the info to catch someone. I hate to say this, unless its happening to me falily or friends, no more calls or help for anybody. try and be good and no one gives a sh#t.
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Odds are he was trying to get a thorough description on tape so that it would be admissible in court. Real time, taped description of what is going down is worth WAY more in court than a remembered description and a bunch of "I thinks" even an hour later.
Most 911 operators are trained pretty well on what types of questions to ask in various situations, at least in our neck of the woods.
And it saddens me that you wouldn't even pick up the phone to help someone just because YOU are being put out by having to answer a few questions. Especially if you don't stop to think that, even if it was just as you describe, it was just one idiot having a bad day and not "the norm".
For all we know, you may have been overly excited yourself, being all wrapped up in a car chase and all, and might not have been as coherent as you now think you were.
Just sayin'.
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