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High Pressure Hose

You can't make this up:

Floridian called 911 three times over McDonald's chicken shortage

:lol2:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...mcnugget1.html

And when the police showed up SHE got cited. Excellent.

What should she have done instead? If a customer took food from McDonalds without paying, you can be damn sure that McD's would call the cops on them. How is this any different?

She paid her money, and they refused to give her what she paid for. And they wouldn't return her money. They stole her money.

I'm with glatt. She ordered, she paid, then they said, "Nevermind, we don't have the thing you ordered and we won't give you your money back." Okay, calling 911 was maybe a little over the top, but I bet if she'd presented her side in a more coherent manner (i.e., "They are robbing me," rather than "My McNuggets are an emergency!") then she would not have been cited. Fuck that McDonald's.

Yeah, using 911 instead of a non-emergency police number was her mistake. "All sales are final"? It's not a sale if she didn't get what she paid for.

Exactly, call the cops but not on 911.

I agree with HM and Bruce. Too many people use the 911 system for Non-emergencies.

And if the customer stole a pack of McNuggets from McDonald's, should McDonald's call the non-emergency number too?

Who keeps the non emergency number memorized in their heads anyway? It varies by precinct. When you go out to a restaurant, do you know which precinct you happen to be closest to? If you called directory assistance, would you even be able to explain to them what number you were looking for? Directory assistance doesn't have the resources to look up what precinct is closest to your address. They aren't going to pull out a map.

It would have been better for her to use the non emergency number, but she should not be cited for calling 911. This was a matter for the police, and she called 911 to get the police. She did nothing wrong.

I'll admit I didn't listen to the tapes. If 911 provided her with the non-emergency number and told her to get lost, and she called again, then I'd have no problem with the citation. But if they were just ignoring a person who was calling to report a robbery in progress, like she was, then the 911 center screwed up.

Yes

I have the local one programmed in my cell phone.
That depends on if I'm in my local area or not.
Absolutely, and every operator knows exactly what you want as well. They are specifically trained on this stuff.

We disagree. She called 3 times on a line that is for emergencies only. The McDonalds wasn't going anywhere. They were not a flight risk. This was a non-emergency. This was NOT a life or death situation - not even close.

Perhaps that woman thought the number 911 is for calling the police?

No, they should just shoot them.

That does reduce repeat offenders

Eventually.