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Showing posts with label 911 service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 911 service. Show all posts

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Weird news - Son reported father for running red light

In school, students are taught traffic discipline, including when to stop at red lights, when to go, what are the various traffic signals. So whenever I drive, even though I follow stop lights, I get a reminder from my first-grader about following the signal, "Daddy, it's a red light, stop". Hopefully when these children grow up, they will be similarly inclined to follow traffic signals when they start driving (if driverless vehicles haven't taken over already).
The below case does seem a bit extreme though, where a 6 year old called 911 to report his own father for driving through a red light, after apparently having warned his father when he was doing that, even though his father tried to convince the son that he was taking a right turn which was perfectly legal. The police department put the call to their Facebook page to show the kind of calls they get, and not in a negative way (link to article):
When the light went red but the driver turned anyway, officer Robbie Richardson's training kicked in. Green meant go, yellow meant slow, and red, he was certain, meant stop. But the driver, turning right, just blew on through the light, his crime all but undetected. Officer Richardson, who spends his free time patrolling the streets of his Boston-area neighborhood, couldn't stand the injustice of it all - especially since the delinquent driver was his dad, and Richardson, a sassy six-year-old who'd left his Little Tikes toy cop cruiser at home, was in the back seat. So the kindergartner did what any good purveyor of justice would do, family loyalty be damned: he called 911.

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Weird news: Man reveals theft plans through 911 call

The 911 is an emergency service in the United States, allowing residents to call for help from state emergency officials (police, ambulance, paramedics, fire services, etc). These are pretty effective when people need their help, and are part of the overall infrastructure of the country (to the extent, that the phone networks and even new services have to include the 911 service as part of their services). From time to time, there are one-off cases where people misuse these services, and these make the headlines (did not like the pizza delivered, so call the 911 service, or many such similar misuses). These are penalized, but nobody would have expected this kind of 911 call.
The robber had by mistake dialed 911 and revealed the entire plans for the robbery while talking to an accomplice, discussing their plans of breaking into houses, and stealing the house of its contents. When the robbery happened, the police knew who was behind these robberies, and promptly arrested him (news to link)

US police have arrested a man after he mistakenly revealed his burglary plans by dialing emergency number 9-1-1. In what is colloquially known as a "butt-dial", 42-year-old Scott Robert Esser framed himself for his own crime by alerting authorities in New Jersey about his robbery plans. He was talking with a co-conspirator about his plans and has since been caught and indicted by the Somerset County Superior Court. Unbeknown to Esser, police were listening in as Esser and an alleged accomplice discussed their plans for breaking into homes, emptying drawers, stealing watches and smashing a back door, according to an affidavit filed by Branchburg detective Edward Edgar.

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