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Another Candidate for a Brutal Doorknob Beating
I've never wanted to punch a 911 operator in the face before. I mean, how often does such a topic come up? But these women deserve to be taken outside and stomped!! And the article? They might be fired? They may even be jailed for a year? Are you fucking kidding me!?!? They deserve to be fired, prosecuted, and incarcerated, not for a year, but for whatever you get for reckless disregard for human life. I'd feel fine about 15 years.
No wonder people think Detroit is a goddamn cesspool.
No wonder people think it's an apathy laden ghetto where no one gives a shit about anyone else.
And what are they doing about it? Apparently operators are now required to take an "ettiquette course."
Yes, because letting a terrified child sit alone with his dying mother is an example of what we call "poor ettiquette."
That little boy is going to hate the establishment for the rest of his life--and who can blame him?
I was just disgusted when I first heard about this case. But I assumed, at least, that appropriate action would be taken and these women would be promptly fired and lose their pensions and such. In fact, the offended women were moved from 911 ops to the records department and not disciplined at all until the 911 tapes were made public. What. The. Fuck??
I could go on all day about how angry this makes me and how horrified I am. Maybe I'm hormonal from my period or something, but looking at that boys face and reading the transcrips for those calls...it just makes me weep. Even if 911 gets 100 prank calls a day, that's no reason to ignore even one. They told him, albeit as a threat, that they were sending the police. They didn't. Three hours later when he called back, they sent the police only to give him a hard time about "making prank calls."
This should have been a charming story about a heroic little boy who knew what to do and saved his Mommy's life. Instead, it's a horrible tale of idiocy, apathy, cynicism, and laziness that traumatized an already frantic child and led to the death of a woman.
And I am fucking sickened by it.
Is there another way of looking at this? Am I missing something here?
No wonder people think Detroit is a goddamn cesspool.
No wonder people think it's an apathy laden ghetto where no one gives a shit about anyone else.
And what are they doing about it? Apparently operators are now required to take an "ettiquette course."
Yes, because letting a terrified child sit alone with his dying mother is an example of what we call "poor ettiquette."
That little boy is going to hate the establishment for the rest of his life--and who can blame him?
I was just disgusted when I first heard about this case. But I assumed, at least, that appropriate action would be taken and these women would be promptly fired and lose their pensions and such. In fact, the offended women were moved from 911 ops to the records department and not disciplined at all until the 911 tapes were made public. What. The. Fuck??
I could go on all day about how angry this makes me and how horrified I am. Maybe I'm hormonal from my period or something, but looking at that boys face and reading the transcrips for those calls...it just makes me weep. Even if 911 gets 100 prank calls a day, that's no reason to ignore even one. They told him, albeit as a threat, that they were sending the police. They didn't. Three hours later when he called back, they sent the police only to give him a hard time about "making prank calls."
This should have been a charming story about a heroic little boy who knew what to do and saved his Mommy's life. Instead, it's a horrible tale of idiocy, apathy, cynicism, and laziness that traumatized an already frantic child and led to the death of a woman.
And I am fucking sickened by it.
Is there another way of looking at this? Am I missing something here?
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No. That's all-embracing review.
Current music: David Bowie - "Panic In Detroit"
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How appropriate.
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Current music: David Bowie - "Fame"
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When I was in college, a frat house caught on fire and the 911 assumed it was a prank. Thankfully, no one died but the damage was more extensive than it needed to be. Do that many people really prank 911 that they assume things are pranks? I just don't get it.
911 is a joke
*shakes head*
they BETTER get fired. and deported some place where stupid people go.
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Now people are saying that the operators are being "scapegoated" because "the press" is so angry about the events. Um...no, the operators are being consequenced because people whose tax dollars fund these idiots are rightfully angry at such a gross oversight.
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gah
They deserve more than a year in jail.
I figure its the same as manslaughter and should be treated as such.
Re: gah
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We were respectable phone prankers when I was a kid. We used to call people and tell them they won stuff. Although one weekend we looked up dudes names in the phone book and pretended to be the husbands mistress.
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But yes, the lack of proper consequences was what prompted me to post about it because I was so damn angry.
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Losing a parent is bad enough, but under those circumstances...