Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:30 pm
but after calling twice, wouldnt you think the operaters would forget about the prank call and send someone over to help?Paul wrote:thelilbear wrote:Shoyru_Lover wrote:Hmm - on the flip side, imagine how many prank calls they get - there's always two sides to a story - poor kid.
Yes, but isn't it their job to follow up on all of them? I mean, it's not like they were dragging their out there, all they had to do was send an officer.
Not always. If they sent an officer/ambulance to every prank call, I'm quite sure a lot more people would be endangered from robberies, house fires, break ins, etc.
Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:55 pm
alien wrote:but after calling twice, wouldnt you think the operaters would forget about the prank call and send someone over to help?
Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:15 am
pipsqueeek wrote:Wasn't it two different people though? They wouldn't have known that the kid had called twice. Though I still think the dispatchers were all kinds of stupid and should be punished a lot harder than they were. I mean, how many five year olds prank call?
Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:37 am
Paul wrote:How did they know the kid was five years old? The dispatchers could've thought they were any age up to 8 years old. Which makes the probability that it is a prank call much higher in the eyes of the operators.
Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:43 am
Hunter Lupe wrote:Approriate resolution, I think.Paul wrote:How did they know the kid was five years old? The dispatchers could've thought they were any age up to 8 years old. Which makes the probability that it is a prank call much higher in the eyes of the operators.
8 year olds tend to... you know... make coherent sentences and reply properly to questions.