...definitely should be something easy to remember, not something folks have to program into their cell phone in order to use while out and about.

9/19/2007 6:12:47 PM

haha i guess the counter-argument is "well if it's not an emergency, then you have time to find the number"

i call bullshit on that

give me 811

9/19/2007 6:14:24 PM

the non emergency RPD # is
890-3335

9/19/2007 6:15:08 PM

for page 2

please do not call 911 unless you have an EMERGENCY.

if it is not an EMERGENT SITUATION (i.e. AN EMERGENCY), call the NON-EMERGENT number: 919-831-6311.

yes, they go to the same place downtown, but it makes a difference. 911 calls are picked up a bit quicker than the calls that come in on all the non-emergent/ems/fire lines.

thanks.

9/19/2007 6:16:53 PM

only time i specifically remember was driving on 95 south from norfolk to Raleigh...some bozo decided traffic was going to slow (it was already dark out) and decides to pass on the paved breakdown lane on the median. only problem is shortly after he gets past me, it turns to grass. dude loses control of his car and goes shooting across the highway in front of a couple of 5 ton military transports. over corrects and shoots back across again, this time just in front of a semi. he hit the guardrail ass first in the median. i pull over and call 911, like a few other cars did. guy can actually still drive his car and takes off, leaving the scene. waited a bit for it to all settle out before driving again. i see him handcuffed on the hood of a cop car about 20 miles later just before i get to 64

9/19/2007 7:01:46 PM

is there a definitive list of emergent and non-emergent call topics you could link me to?
life threatening is obviously emergent, but I want to hear it from the horse's mouth what Police/Fire/Rescue consider emergencies , and what they their eyes at.



[Edited on September 19, 2007 at 7:09 PM. Reason : .]

9/19/2007 7:08:31 PM

it's common sense. i don't have a disposition list in front of me right now, but, yeah.

basically anything where anyone is seriously hurt or something that can't wait half an hour or so.

when i get home from work i'll see what i can dig up from my stuff.

example: do not call 911 to report that a traffic light is malfunctioning

9/19/2007 7:09:44 PM

if you mean to say that rapid response needed = emergent, that's good enough for me.

9/19/2007 7:10:42 PM

^that's basically the general rule

9/19/2007 7:12:12 PM

I've called 911 twice in my life iirc

once back in august when I almost died on the beach

and once when I had my four wheeler wreck


other than that, it was non emergency numbers

plus, I used to be 911 when I was a VFF!

9/19/2007 7:32:42 PM

called 911 for a few wrecks, but this one is only TWWorthy:

last summer me and the gf were headed home on US21 just north of the good ole statesville, NC. Just up ahead of us I happen to see a glimmer of a car come flying across into our lane, colliding with the 2nd vehicle up (~200 ft). Southbound car, traveling roughly 80-90 around this sweeping curve (55 zone), caught the northbound SUV head on (southbound got hit in the front right area). SUV flipped onto its top, stopped immediately in its tracks. most sickening crash sound ive ever heard (think explosion), all i could get out of my mouth was "Oh Jesus."

we pulled over, I fumbled for my phone and called 911, only to get switched over the the NCHP. Got off the phone, and by this time there were a few folks running around the crash site, one being a first responder. I kinda creeped up to get a better view of what was going on and happened to see one of the occupants of the SUV, who I presumed to be dead.

I walked back to my gf's vehicle, climbed in and cried. we eventually left as the emergency vehicles and helicopter arrived. 3 of the 4 involved died on impact, the 4th in the hospital

9/19/2007 7:33:13 PM

thanks for reminding me of those moments.

9/19/2007 7:35:02 PM

I've seen some crazy ass wrecks


seen some gross shit in those wrecks too

been to a couple suicides

been involved in some crazy wrecks too

it's amazing the stuff the body can live through... it's also amazing what can actually kill someone

9/19/2007 7:39:07 PM

Only time I've ever called 911 was recently.

Guy was drunk and wanting to drive home. Luckily, a buddy of his had taken his keys and was not giving them back. In turn, he was punching his truck door and yelling profusely (his punching was audible over a movie and closed windows).

Guy had gone bat-shit crazy, enough to push me to call 911. The whole time with a hand on a concealed pistol in case he decided to try to harm anyone.

Had a nice little chat with the female operator who informed me that they had gotten several calls from the neighborhood about the guy.

9/19/2007 9:25:12 PM

^ I meant to tell you guys I am sorry about that.

9/19/2007 11:17:51 PM

I saw basically that happen on new years eve outside my apt. Dude left the party a floor under me, was talking shit to his gf (aka "come on i wanna fuck you in the ass" talk), she said don't talk to me like that in front of ppl and stormed off. He said fuck you bitch I'm leaving without you..his friends grabbed him, took his keys, and let him go since he had no way to even get in his car..or so they thought. He wandered around in a drunken daze for a few minutes until everybody left him alone then he grabbed the spare key from under the rear bumper. He jumped in the car and locked the doors as his buddies come running at him and he nearly runs them over. He squeals tires like the drunken moron he is and gets stopped by the security guard before he even gets out of the gate.

I guess that's not a story of calling 911, but I did call the cops on them one night when it was 4am on like a Tuesday night and they were throwing shit at my window and my gf had just had surgery and just wanted to sleep..

9/19/2007 11:23:19 PM

when i was little my older brother and his friends made me dial 911 and ask the operator if she pooped her pants, then i had to tell her i pooped my pants, then hung up. a lil while later operator called and talked to my mom, and well, my brother was whipped by my mom with two belts in each hand, it was pretty funny...

9/19/2007 11:25:43 PM

hahahaha
awesome

reminds me of the time I peed in a cup and got my cousin to drink it

9/19/2007 11:34:52 PM

the last time i called 911 was when i saw a car whose engine was smoking, and just as i was driving by, the flames started pouring out

9/19/2007 11:57:15 PM

Some of these are good stories.

Others...y'all call 911 way too much.

Just cause two cars collide, it doesn't mean 911 is necessary.

Shit, if you get in an accident, you don't even need to call the police cause some other douchebag driving by will do it for you.

When I was a young G, my father and I got in a one car accident right up the road from the house--the car was fucked up pretty bad, but we were mostly fine. I had a bump on my head, and he had a broken arm. So we walk up to the house, get in another car, and drive to the hospital. Every dumbass with a cell phone called 911. And my dad got a "leaving the scene..." ticket. I wasn't even phased...just thought it was funny to see my father get a little lecture from the cop about how fire trucks and ambulances had responded and how much trouble he had caused.

Oh, and I haven't called 911 since I was seven or so...cause I was curious. Someone's gotta be fading fast for me to call.

9/20/2007 12:01:16 AM

bttt for all the other threads that are 'what would you do/like' today

10/3/2007 4:34:44 PM

ive had to call them a couple times.

another time when our game warden had a heat stroke

and im sure another time

10/3/2007 4:44:47 PM

bttt

12/7/2007 1:57:20 PM

i was back home (lousiania) and was trying to call NC and instead of dialing 919 i called 911. I hung up, or at least i thought i hung up, before it even got thru. A cop showed up at my grandmothers house but the funny part was that my uncle was already at my grandmother's house and hes a LA state trooper.

My uncle was like "Hey man, whatcha doin here?" and the cop was like "dude, your a trooper what are you doing here? Isn't this a local call?" and my uncle was all like bitch i grew up here! apparently they knew eachother and i looked like a dumbass

12/7/2007 2:20:20 PM

to ask for a cop to pick us up cause we were tired of waiting for the cab

when the lady answered, i told her it wasnt an emergency but we didnt know the non-emergency # & she said that she answers both of them anyway

[Edited on December 7, 2007 at 2:22 PM. Reason : .]

12/7/2007 2:20:57 PM

WHEN:

This dumb bitch rear-ended my first car. I had been stopped a good 30 seconds, waiting to turn left, and she just plowwed into me like I wasn't there. She then tried to flee the scene with a busted radiator. HAHA I had her info, told her that I did, and that she wouldn't make it very far, with that car.

I mowed over a doe in my truck. My truck was fine (chromed steel bumper bolted to the frame FTW); however, the car behind me got tore up.

Guy walking down the middle of an interstate.


Woman walking on interstate.

Large pickup that cut me off and slammed on it's brakes (and noone else around). I passed it and he tailed me for a LONG time. He tried his game again, and I backed way off. I then passed him, took him on an exit, and let him meet the police

Woman I had seen sleeping in same car, same spot every night off Oberlin. This night she cussed me out, as I walked by.

Guy tried to force his way into the apartment. I pushed him out (and against the wall behind, which broke his head open).

For an accident I saw.


For an accident I saw.

[Edited on December 7, 2007 at 2:34 PM. Reason : ]

12/7/2007 2:34:12 PM

ooooooooooo forgot about this, it was round 4 in the morning and i was driving a friend home. The women in the turn lane next to me had compelely passed the fuck out and was drooling on the drivers side window. I didn't call 911 but there was a cop waiting at the stoplight opposite from me so i ran the redlight and was like "Urh, you might want to check on that lady over there. Yah the one that has a greenlight but isn't moving."

12/7/2007 2:41:00 PM

I have NEVER called 911

12/7/2007 2:41:17 PM

Quote :

"so i ran the redlight and was like "Urh, you might want to check on that lady over there. Yah the one that has a greenlight but isn't moving.""

I am surprised he did not give you a ticket while the woman when in cardiac arrest or something.

12/7/2007 2:43:48 PM

For my job this summer I had to call quite a few times to make sure 911 still had the correct address for the phone number at all the locations I was responsible for... stupid builders & homeowners associations couldn't decide which of the 4 phone lines they put in should be used or what the actual physical address of the building was supposed to be. The imbecile hired to be in charge of the phones didn't help the situation, either.

Had to call twice when my little sister was young. We were all eating dinner & she tipped her chair back & hit her head really hard. She would start crying so hard she would stop breathing & turn blue... and eventually go limp. She would come to about 15-20 seconds later.

Finally, I called once because there was this kid walking down the beltline (I440) by himself... he had on his little character backpack & looked so lost and out of place. It was one of those situations where you just don't know who to call, but I figured 911 would get the quickest response. By the time I realized that it really was a kid, there was no way for me to pull over. Apparently, they sent out a few cars to look for him. I hope he was OK.

12/7/2007 3:58:30 PM

I was driving back to work on my lunch break in wilmington and was stopped at a stoplight. All of a sudden I heard a crash, turned my head, and saw this dude twirling, flying 20 feet in the air. He fell, limp as hell and I could see his motorcycle, absolutely demolished. I guess he got blind-sided by a vehicle. Called 911, but since I really didnt see what happened and people were already running over there helping him, I didnt stay....always wondered if he ended up alright.

12/7/2007 4:03:32 PM

1. When I was a kid and I found my mom dead.
2. When I saw a car burst into flames going down 264
3. When I was dialing out from a campus line to contact a late co-worker 9919...9919...9919...9911 Operator called back, asked if I was okay, told her I was and that was the end of that.

I call 53000 on campus a lot for seeing stupid crap that happens while I'm at the desk.

12/7/2007 5:32:33 PM

Saw a pretty nasty T-bone accident in Charleston where 526 runs into 17. Called 911 and told them there was an accident at the intersection of 526 and 17.

If you're familiar with Charleston, you can figure out why 911 called me back about three minutes later.

12/7/2007 5:41:57 PM

Call 911?

Bitch, I AM 911!

12/7/2007 5:43:06 PM

jcashfan called 911 when my dad was stung by yellow jackets and went into anaphylaxis before we could get him his epi pen



i was laying in the driveway writhing in pain from ripping all of my ligaments apart when i fell climbing out of the back of the truck

[Edited on December 7, 2007 at 5:52 PM. Reason : they charged us both full price for that ambulance ride.... fuckers]

12/7/2007 5:50:50 PM

when someone tried to break into my apartment at 430 am. it was my night off working nightshift so I was awake. fucker must have thought I was out cause i was working 80 hours a week at the time. called the cops and had my glock pointed at the door from the bathroom. guy was unsuccessful, cops showed up 30 minutes later with tazers drawn, but perp had left.

wish they did catch him..."don't taze me bro"

[Edited on December 7, 2007 at 9:28 PM. Reason : sp]

12/7/2007 9:27:34 PM

when I was little and I wanted to see if it really worked. Later that day a fire truck drove down our road and I thought they were coming to get me...

12/7/2007 9:30:36 PM

there's been a push to make 311 a non-emergency number to contact police/fire/ems dispatchers. Personally i think it'll cause more confusion than not.

There are tons of non-emergency numbers to call dispatch centers in this county. Bottom line is if you have to think to yourself if it is an emergency or not.... it probably isn't.

And there are a ton of things that people call 911 for that we after 10 years in the biz it's pretty much everything... people call 911 for the absolutely most stupid shit you would ever imagine. I've sat in communications centers many nights listening in at a console, it's fucking ridiculous to hear some of the calls that people make from 911... and cell phones that has been the one thing to keep 911 centers busy as hell. It's crazy

but to answer the question i've called 911 and *HP plenty. But these days I just call the non-emergency lines more often than not.

12/8/2007 3:05:52 PM

last year i when i was living on enterprise st. after a punk show at sadlacks (may not even be related) some dude banged on my door at like 130 or so looking beat up and bloody (had a bike but i didnt really look long enough to see if it was damaged by a car or whatever)

12/8/2007 3:59:29 PM

i am 911

12/8/2007 4:00:13 PM

oh yeah.... and I am 911

12/8/2007 4:44:27 PM

I used to have to call them all the time to test the system when I worked at the arena.

Once, on the night shift, 911 called me. It turns out that our phone system was messed up and kept repeatedly calling 911 and playing audio clips from hockey games (our hold loop).

12/8/2007 4:45:06 PM

<10 minutes ago, when *HP wasn't being answered

These miscreants were driving and behaving so erratically that were it not 9am, the first thing I'd assume is that they were drunk beyond belief. I'm going with 'cracked out' over 'drunk' because of the time of day. Between the hollering at other drivers at EVERY stoplight, the swerving, aggression, sudden stopping, and leaving blinkers on (thanks for using them, though ), I noted their plate and then got the fuck away from them.

12/10/2007 8:58:03 AM

when i had a nose bleed for over an hour and then so much started pouring out that it was going down my throat, out of my nose and mouth, and then I started to choke on it.

when a car behind me got rear-ended at 70 mph

when a drunk guy walking down the middle of a road got hit by a car going around 60 mph



and while I agree with using non-emergency numbers for non-emergencies, they don't work that great since most people don't know what the numbers are, especially if you are visiting/new to a place. they should use 311 or something similar. If you're too stupid to know the difference between 911 and 311 then you shouldn't be the one calling.

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 9:06 AM. Reason : add]

12/10/2007 9:03:29 AM

july this year. i was walking through the SAMS parking lot heading into the store and i walked by this shit box car that had 2 kids in their car seats and the car was locked, windows up, and not running. the kids were to small to unlock the doors or get out of their seats. it was 95+ degrees outside and you could see they were soaked from sweating. i stood there called 911. the cop got there and broke the window so we could get the kids out. we got them out and gave the water that i had with me. the dumb bitch who's kids they were came out of walmart next door and started cussing us for breaking her window. she got arrested and i left. i hope i do not have to do it again but it was worth it. i think i could have saved that bitch jail time but all i got was a big fuck you....

12/10/2007 9:04:52 AM

^gg

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 9:05 AM. Reason : one]

12/10/2007 9:05:47 AM

to report an intersection without working traffic lights

and to report us seeing three girls beating up another one, what was weird was they came into the kmart we called from after we finished shopping.

12/10/2007 9:08:34 AM

Only time I've personally called is when my car caught on fire a few years ago. We got it extinguished before RFD showed up though so I felt kinda foolish, but I didn't want to take chances.

Would have called for the 2 accidents I've been in, but the first one someone else called first, and the second I didn't have my phone and the other guy's got tossed under something in his car in the collision. Thankfully a cop happened to pass us in the other lane and we flagged him down.

Roommate called a few years back when this dude was hurling himself repeatedly at our door at about 2 AM trying to get into our apartment. Cops showed up just as he decided to change tactic and kicked in a window. Turns out he was coming home drunk from a bachelor party, got dropped off at the wrong building, and thought his roommates had changed the locks on him.

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 9:35 AM. Reason : d]

12/10/2007 9:25:02 AM

Once, when I saw a kid on a bike drive out in front of a guy in a Mercedes and get rolled up on the hood. He wound up being ok (the car was going maybe 5 or 10 mph and the kid simply wasn't paying any attention) but the white Mercedes driver was clearly worried about having hit a kid in and almost all black neighborhood.

I *HP'd an OBVIOUSLY drunk driver who couldn't maintain his lane (or the ones to his left and right) at about 1pm on a Sunday on 40 outside of Winston-Salem.

Quote :

"jcashfan called 911 when my dad was stung by yellow jackets and went into anaphylaxis before we could get him his epi pen"

I forgot about that, your dad called though, when we got back to the house. My phone doesn't work up at his place. I don't think I've ever driven that fast off-road.

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 9:35 AM. Reason : blinking traffic lights? That is the equivalent of calling the NCSHP when you hydroplane ]

12/10/2007 9:26:06 AM

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