When's the last time you called 9-1-1?

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The last time was when I was playing a prank as a little kid, and just called it to see what happened. The cops came, I said I hadn't called 9-1-1, my mother hadn't either, they left.

I'd rather handle something myself then trust anything to the cops.

Once my mother was clanign her room, the phone fell behind the bureau and dialed 9-1-1 on its own; would you beleive it? This was an old-fashioned phone with no single "dial this number" buttons. The cops came and I dunno if they believed her story. But it was an amazing coincidence.

When I heard a woman screaming directly outside of my apartment, I looked out my window and there was a group of people and woman screaming frantically about how someone was trying to kill her and a man trying to calm her down. Very hectic day, thankfully everything calmed down once the cops came. I guess someone in one of the apartments in my building was threatening to stab people, I still don't know what happened exactly.

When I saw a gang member lying on the road - The guy rejected my offer of help, I think he had been stabbed.

When we had a chimney fire. It put itself out.

I never have, but I almost did once. My brothers were having a very physical fight and they seriously wanted to kill each other (my Aspie brother told me that if he'd had a gun he would have killed our other brother who started the confrontation). My mother was trying to get between them and break it up, while I cowered in my bedroom crying and consoling our dogs. I was very close to calling 911, but my mother finally got them to stop.

For myself in 2003. I was pregnant and vomiting to the point I could not get up off the bathroom floor and I was beginning to black out. That experience sucked. Turned out I had Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a fairly rare type of very severe morning sickness. I don't recommend it, lol

I called the cops when I was a kid for no reason or maybe I thought it was fun. I was always told about 911 at school, and I guess I was just curious.

I never have to this point and hope I never have to.

I've only called a couple of times in my life and at least one of those turned out not to be a true 911 call.

I normally just call the desk line (which in some towns is not recorded, by the way) to report disruptive behavior or non-life-threatening things.

When I worked for an EMS system in Texas we got all sorts of goofy 911 calls...

-Bug in kid's ear
-Playdough in kid's nose( a mexican mom with two young boys. one stuffed playdough up his brother's nostril and the mom spent some time... along with a bobby pin and pepper, trying to get it out. My partner finally scooped it out... no hospital run for that!
-Kid wouldn't sleep, kept crying (mom and her sister took the young kids out to a monster movie... hence, the nightmares! Funny thing is, I had my big bushy beard and everytime I got in sight of the kid, he'd start crying - wolfman! , had to let my partner take care of that).

These calls were made by moms who had no transportation and were recently moved to the U.S. from Mexico.

Some other 911 calls that were not...

-A guy's scrotum was swollen and painful (we had a rookie on board that night and my paramedic at the time let her do the exam).
-Too many folks on fulltime O2, who don't get their oxygen company to come out and bring new tanks soon enough. They'd realize how low they were, call the company, company wouldn't be out for a couple of hours, so the person would call us. We'd show up thinking we had a respiratory distress call, find a guy (the usual description of this type of patient), sitting on the edge of the couch, bracing himself against his knees, leaning over a full ashtray. We'd start him on Oxygen (O2), get ready to transport, and by that time (or if his O2 company arrived while we were there), he'd refuse to go to the hospital.

We started out not charging for just rolling out on a call. Many folks of the sort above knew this and would take the 'free' service to make it until they knew they could wait out the arrival of their oxygen company.

We finally started charging anytime we were called.

Other non-911, 911 calls...
Our regulars.
We'd get a call to a certain corner... at a certain time... on a certain night... and knew exactly who it was and where we were taking them... always the county hospital... it was some of the street folks. They needed a warm, safe place to sleep, or a meal, or something else they knew they could get at the E.R.

Trouble with all those non-emergency 911 calls... while we were responding... code3 (lights/sirens and busting red lights), and spending time with the 'patient' on-scene, and possibly transporting them... a REAL emergency might come up in our district to which we could not respond. This meant a unit from somewhere else in the city (if any were available) would have to travel all the way to our district, to the scene. Not good for that patient!

I accidently called the fire department to my army barracks once

I was stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia for jump school. My ADD/HD got me into trouble there... I walked past one of those fire alarms that have a tiny window in them and a little striker behind that.
I noticed what appeared to be the 'lock' for the box. It had two little holes that matched up with the two prongs on my nail clippers.
I put the prongs into the holes and twisted the lock, thinking I was just going to open the box and see what was inside.

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THE ALARM WOULD GO OFF!?
Luckily, the Lt. on duty that evening didn't write me up. She was pissed... as was the fire dept... but I was lucky that day!

I think only once when I was little because I thought that the phone was unplugged, or maybe it was one of my other siblings. Anyways, one of the cops came over while my mom was in the shower, and so my mom had to talk to her while she was still had her towel on! That'd be embarrassing... lol Other than that, I've never dialed 911. However, someone did call 911 for me when I was 5 years old because the end of my finger was almost chopped off; my finger got shut in the back door. I think my sister got in trouble for that by my mom because it was she who accidentally did it, but it was I who put my finger in the door! lol

The one and only time I called 911 was shortly after got hit by a car when cycling to work on Long Island 21 years ago.
I was taken to the hospital with a broken elbow and had to have surgery.

2 years ago, when my old neighbour (in his late 60's-early 70's) found himself some new friends (in their 30's-40's~drug related).

I could hear them upstairs partying, it was becoming a common occurance. My daughter and I were home decorating for Christmas, so she was up at a strange hour (10pmish). When all of a sudden we heard banging all the way down the stairwell. I peaked out the peep hole to see what had happened (startled, really) and there was a man, unconscious at my doorstep. He must have been so drunk he had fallen down all the stairs. I watched a woman rush out to his aide, equally drunk and no sign of my neighbour. She picked him up, threw his arm over her shoulder and was cussing and carrying on about how rude my neighbour was for ignoring her calls for help. She took this man, now semi-coherent and walked him down the next few stairs to the doorway. I could not see anything beyond that, but was wuick to rush indoors and rip the curtains across careful not to let my daughter see what was happening. As I was drawing the curtains, I watched the woman let go of the man and he zig zagged across my front lawn, over the edge of the side walk and smacked his face off of the corner of a truck, throwing his body backward, landing unconscious on my lawn! *sigh*

I ran to the door, as I could hear my neighbour and friends in the stairwell and calle dout to them to help their friend. They did not even turn to my calls and walked out of the building, into the backyard and continued to drink the last few beers of the night, so I called 9-1-1!! !

*sigh*

we no longer live there (THANKFUL FOR THAT), and it was a direct result of the constant chaos and partying going on in the small triplex. I have recently heard that my neighbour is in along term care hospital and the woman friend over dosed in the apartment!! *shakes head*

I never called 911, but my brother accidentally did when he was 4.