911: What Was Your Emergency? (Trees And Things)

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Mon, 28 May 2007 16:54:39 EST

Here they'd be called allophones.

pO157: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Mon, 28 May 2007 10:16:12 EST

It is probably a good thing they were French Canadians. If it was a Chinaman he probably would have pissed on your rug also.

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Wed, 23 May 2007 16:13:59 EST

I guess I've lived the opening to True Romance only without the complete isolation.

nmiguy: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Wed, 23 May 2007 12:41:48 EST

It still sounds like a Tarantino film waiting to happen.

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Tue, 22 May 2007 14:51:36 EST

Colorful? I live an uneventful life. I do no violence to anyone, and try to stop it when possible. When my friends started a brawl in a pool bar and two were hospitalised, I was the one trying to stop it (or stop it from restarting as most of them had been

nmiguy: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Tue, 22 May 2007 10:54:48 EST

Well in that case it makes complete sense not to call the police. They were POLITE thugs.

rEv, you have a colorful life. As short as it may well turn out to be, it looks as fun as a Quentin Tarantino film. Hey in the movie of your life

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Mon, 21 May 2007 16:52:31 EST

I'd vote on the ice water, although I never knew it before then. It was my house and there were two other people there (a friend and my little cousin... 18 years old but he seems more like 14), so I had a responsibility to make sure that if anything bad ha

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:11 EST

That's pretty much how it went, but in french and with more kicks to the head.

nmiguy: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Mon, 21 May 2007 12:58:55 EST

"If you would be so kind, dear fellow, to hand over your stash of marijuana, and your money, or else we shall be left with no alternative but to slit your throat. Please forgive this tawdry mess we've made, but our search through your living quarters

nmiguy: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Mon, 21 May 2007 12:52:39 EST

And really, having a knife to your throat isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

Either you're posing to be a tough guy, or you've actually got ice water in your veins. I mean, i could see that kind of bravado from a John Wayne, but even

rEvolution inAction: Re: ...isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

Sat, 19 May 2007 14:57:30 EST

There's a time for meekness and a time for resolve, depending on the actual circumstances. It looks like you read the situation perfectly. A calm demeanor will usually ward away any problems, much like animals they can smell fear.

Lou: Well, I'm scared

Sat, 19 May 2007 11:34:51 EST

But I thought Canadians as a rule were mild mannered and friendly?

I dunno, man...those Quebecois look pretty mean.

teaweed: Re: ...isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

Sat, 19 May 2007 08:00:09 EST

If the would-be hoodlum had had any gravitas, I probably would've been meek as a neutered lamb. If they had been resolved, contrary to their amateur presentation, I might've been in serious danger. The bus that'd just come around the bend toward us was pro

rEvolution inAction: Re: ...isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

Fri, 18 May 2007 20:54:51 EST

I'm just having trouble imagining someone accosting someone on the street with a rifle, faux or not. Gotta admire yrr balls, but you're lucky their plan came apart the moment you didn't go along with it. Regardless of whether or not they had a weapon

teaweed: ...isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

Fri, 18 May 2007 20:27:34 EST

Work is in a good neighborhood, home is in a questionable one, and there's a train station about two blocks from each. Walking home one morning from work/the train station, a truck with three guys in it stops across the street from me. The driver is wearin

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:33:41 EST

or were you talking about me?

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:33:25 EST

Well they were rather polite about it.

pO157: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 13:58:34 EST

But I thought Canadians as a rule were mild mannered and friendly?

At least, that was my impression whenever I visited.

MayorBob: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 12:58:46 EST

It might have been fitting had the cops handcuffed the both of them to the hood of their cruisers and transported them that way to the lockup.

Like you and Ken, if I've called 911 once to report an accident or incident, I've probably called them a half

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 12:38:53 EST

I wish I weren't. I hate whitey.

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 12:38:23 EST

I'm definitely part of the "don't snitch" culture, but reporting a crime isn't snitching. Snitching is getting caught for a crime and agreeing to tell on everyone else who's doing it so that you can get away with a reduced sentence.

They stole my pot st

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 12:33:19 EST

St.Henri district of Montreal.

T Slothrop: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 10:59:12 EST

In this day of ubiquitous cell phones, I'm surprised at the "a least twice in their lifetime" figure cited in the story. I've called 911 at least a half-dozen times, mostly for car accidents...

My experience seems to matc

thefadd: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 10:13:21 EST

My mind baffles at the idea that you would even need a little prodding to report this to the police. I imagine you must have a huge pot stash or a few kilos of coke in your house and worry the police could find it in an investigation or something. Oth

zyxwvutsr: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 09:28:04 EST
In this day of ubiquitous cell phones, I'm surprised at the "a least twice in their lifetime" figure cited in the story. I've called 911 at least a half-dozen times, mostly for car accidents (once because of a mattress in the middle of the westbound PA Tur

zyxwvutsr: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 09:23:17 EST
He's an anarchist, you know.

nmiguy: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 08:35:32 EST
I called 911 after 6-7 men wearing masks broke into my house, tied me up and threatened me with a knife to my throat.... but I only did it at the landlords insistence.
Only at the landlord's insistence? Your home was violated and you didn't

pO157: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Fri, 18 May 2007 06:34:53 EST
Man, where did you live? Camden? East St. Louis? Buffalo?

tomc: Stopped breathing

Thu, 17 May 2007 23:49:16 EST
I've never called 911, but my wife has at least twice: both times I had stopped breathing.
The first time I had sharp pains in my chest and couldn't breathe. As the paramedics and firefighters barged through the front door, I coughed up a po

rEvolution inAction: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 22:19:33 EST
I called 911 after 6-7 men wearing masks broke into my house, tied me up and threatened me with a knife to my throat.... but I only did it at the landlords insistence. Police never caught them, nothing that was stolen was ever returned, so there wasn't rea

Admit The Woods: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 20:44:33 EST
You mention the British 999, which always puzzled me back in the day when all we had were rotary phones. Considering the likelihood that time is of the essence during an emergency, why wasn't

tomc: Re: Bastards

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:09:40 EST
I had an experience like that once.

thefadd: 911 -- Yes, It's A Joke In My Town

Thu, 17 May 2007 13:19:22 EST
I never called 911 until I moved to Los Angeles. Since then, I've called probably four or five times, only one that I considered vaguely serious to my own safety. The most recent occassion (to report someone else's car on fire on a freeway offramp) was the

nmiguy: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:42:34 EST
About 15 years ago, on a Saturday night I'm lying in my bed on one hot summer night with my window open. I am awoken to the sounds of Jimmy. A friend of mine I had known since childhood A good guy, nice, friendly, kind, but totally drunk

keta: Bastards

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:23:13 EST
I've never called them, but they did call me once. I was in the midst of a furious lovemaking session with a beautiful Italian opera singer, and she had just vocally disintegrated most of my stemmed glassware.

gerrymander: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:13:18 EST
I've called 911 twice. The first time was an early Sunday morning when the sound of smashing glass alerted me to a someone breaking into a car in the parking lot across from my window. The second was was upon hearing screaming from an alley, which turned o

pO157: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 09:44:23 EST

Growing up in a third world country, it was generally considered pointless to call 911 (actually 119 there) -- people made do for themselves, whether it was a fire, intruder or medical services required. I recall in one case where the local co

pO157: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 09:18:51 EST
There is strong resonance for the "I don't call 911" ethos among friends and family who tend to be pro-gun. To be completely frank, its not so much an anti-911 stance as it is an anti calling the police for help stance.
An interesting concept. I

pO157: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 09:16:58 EST
Well, I figured I'd run through the list. Thankfully, none was really life/death, although any of them could have been much worse than they turned out to be.
#1: Unfortunately, I had to drive through Utah one morning on my way back home. Regrettably, I

harzerkatze: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 04:27:39 EST
I've called 110 (germany) only once, upon seeing a horse run free on a street leading up to a mainstreet, and I didn't know the number of the local police. Wasn't really an emergency, but could have become one quickly if something startled (and thus starte

wetkarma: Re: 911: What Was Your Emergency?

Thu, 17 May 2007 03:50:06 EST
I've called once when the driver of a vehicle (ahead of me) going around a curve lost control and smashed into the embankment. It was a quick and expedient way to get medical support on the scene.
Naturally 10 years or so ago this sort of call would no