Have you ever called the police/cops?

[Lovely2CU]

For any reason.

Only had to do it once late at night. An extremely, irate man, who I did not know, but knew I was in as my lights/TV were on, decided to try and break into my home...he was trying to kick the front door in, luckily it had toughened glass, he kept going round the back and then appearing at the front door again...he was shouting abusive stuff to me too.

I panicked after a while and called the police whose response was really fast...they took him away and I never heard from him again..shook me up a bit at the time I can tell you!

 

[kelly1218]

Yes, quite often.

Car accidents, gas leak, crazy irrate neighbor, lost child, hit and run (live right by the high school....this happens too often), insane bus driver running over lawns, curbs.... ended up being drunk

Neighbor that decided to have a bon fire....with flames OVER 15 ft tall!!! (we live in a wooded area...the flames were singeing the trees. That would have been one heck of a forrest fire!

Stupid undercover cop driving irratically almost causing numerous accidents. (including almost hitting a motorcycle )

 

[golfgal]

I called the police once when I DH was out of town. The twins were infants and DS18 was about 3. A friend was over and we were chatting when someone knocked on the door. It was one of those door to door meat salespeople. I said no thanks and he left. Well a little while later my friend said he was still outside. She said we should call the police. We called the non-emergency number because we didn't know if anything was really wrong. They told us to call 911. Someone came right over and had a chat with the salesperson and he moved along. It turned out to be nothing but the police officer said he was glad we called because that is what they are there for.

I called 911 once for my mom when she was having chest pains one evening but an ambulance crew came, not the police so I don't know if that counts.

 

[Ohiodislover]

I have to call the police at work several times a year.

On a personal matter, once I had to call when someone who was at a party I was attending shot and killed himself. That was the only 911 call.

I have called before to report a few car accidents (my own, and others I have seen)

 

[KittyHellstrom]

We've had to call the cops a few times on my neighbor upstairs who insists on blasting loud music late at night.

-Kitty

 

[mouseforcemom]

We did as some high schoolers decided they had nothing better to do for a few weekends than break in to garages steal stuff and break windows, throw bricks at front doors, just crappy "Look at me" stuff. One night it got out of hand and a neighbor chased them down the street, our neighbor fell in the process and broke his collarbone, words were exchanged, the police showed up and escorted junior home to his grandma. Come to find out he had taken to coming over during the weekends and while Grams was sleeping soundly snuck out. Once Grams and his parents realized what was going on that was the end of it.

 

[tonilea]

I call two or three times a week.....


but my DH is a cop. lol

Actually I have called several times, but 911 only a few times. Once when I looked out the window and saw our neighbor's house engulfed in flames and the other times were over accidents we witnessed.

 

[golfgal]

I call two or three times a week.....


but my DH is a cop. lol

Actually I have called several times, but 911 only a few times. Once when I looked out the window and saw our neighbor's house engulfed in flames and the other times were over accidents we witnessed.

Oh, I just remembered another one, it was during a snow storm and we got caught on the highway and it was extremely slippery. Given it was MN most of us know to go extra, extra slow but one clown decided he didn't need to and ended up about 30 seconds later spinning into the median. I called 911 and reported the accident-at first they said they had that one on video and someone was on the way but I told them it just happened and they were able to look at it on the traffic cams. I told him what had happened and he replied "idiot". . I am sure the cop was having a tough day-we found that very funny.

 

[LilyWDW]

Oh, I just remembered another one, it was during a snow storm and we got caught on the highway and it was extremely slippery. Given it was MN most of us know to go extra, extra slow but one clown decided he didn't need to and ended up about 30 seconds later spinning into the median. I called 911 and reported the accident-at first they said they had that one on video and someone was on the way but I told them it just happened and they were able to look at it on the traffic cams. I told him what had happened and he replied "idiot". . I am sure the cop was having a tough day-we found that very funny.

Sounds like something my dad would have said. He used to be a police officer in IL in a town north of Chicago. He hated when it snowed and was icy because they had to go out and help those that drove like morons. He didn't mind helping those who just had bad luck, but the people who couldn't understand that bad weather means slow down...

 

[kacaju]

Yes, in fact I just did the other night. There is a couple who live behind us and over a few homes (I cannot see their house from mine) but they get in the nastiest screaming matches and when her voice gets to the point of hysteria I called.
They have a child in the house, since I cannot possibly know if that child is at home when I hear them I play it safe and just call.

When I called last week the officer said they already got a call and they were on their way.

 

[Ephany]

Yep, it was pre-DD so maybe 10 years ago? The kids in the townhome community we lived in were throwing lit firecrackers underneath cars to see 'if they could make one go boom' (their words when DH confronted them). They wouldn't knock it off, so we called the police. There was a bunch of murders that year too, so we were very happy to move. It looked nice by daylight, but at night .

I've also called 911 by accident. One weekend we found a stray dog, obviously someone's pet who had been dumped. When I called the animal control number it connected to 911. Apparently it's such a small town that there's only the one set of dispatchers on the weekend.

 

[lemondog]

I called the non-emergency line one time. A truck was driving down the road with a HUGE modular home on the back, and that thing was taking down EVERY power line in its path. I was right behind it and lines were snapping left and right. I tried to get the driver's attention but he was clueless and really couldn't see me anyway, so I just called the police and told them what was going on so they could see if they were live wires or just your garden telephone/cable variety.

 

[minkydog]

Yes, DD had to make the call. She was about 15 and was home sick from school. Our big poodle started barking like his hair was on fire, so she looked outside. There were three big guys walking around the back fence. Just walking back and forth, staring at the house. She didn't know what to do, so she locked all the doors and called DH. He had her call 911 while he was on the way home. He got there just about the time the SWAT team did. They had two on the ground and were plundering our RV looking for the third one. THey found him later in the woods. Scared the crap out of all of us. I know in my heart they were casing the house. Probably didn't know she was there, but I think the sound of the dog's deep barking may have given them second thoughts. Minky might have saved the day!

 

[luvmy3]

Yes emergency once, I was robbed at gunpoint at work one night.
I have called the non emergency line to report my car broken into and another time for vandalism. Punk kids in the neighborhood

 

[tvguy]

Well, I think you meant call 9-1-1, not just call the police or fire department.

I call police and fire departments at least 30 times a day. I work in a TV newsroom, and first thing I do is call the 30 largest police and fire departments in our viewing area to see if anything newsworthy happened overnight.
These calls happen at the start of all three shifts per day, so total, at least 90 times a day.

 

[arminnie]

I've called so many times that I couldn't begin to count.

I've had family in law enforcement for decades so my attitude towards the police is that there are there to help me.

A few examples:
Guy beating on door trying to get in (had to go testify in court for this one)
Loud music at 2 am - I was not going to go confront them. Almost a block away. Had been going on forever and I finally got tired of it.
Loud music all of a sudden at 3 am. Drunks who came home, turned on the stereo and passed out.
Drunks next door going crazy (in University Park, TX one of best neighborhoods in country)
Crazy (dementia) lady throwing rocks from a balcony at me and my dog.
Someone peeking in my second floor bedroom window - turned out to be kids next door looking at fireworks. Townhouse with common roof.

If I have a problem I am going to call for backup!!!!

That doesn't begin to address my call to 911 for medical issues.

A dog tried to attack my dog one New Year's Day. In breaking up the fight I got a little nick on my hand. I decided to go to a walk in clinic to have it taken care of. It was not open so I stopped by the police dept. (small town of 29,000 with no crime) to ask where I could go. They told me to wait a minute. Shortly thereafter I heard sirens and TWO huge fire trucks with paramedics arrived. I wanted to crawl in a hole.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

a couple times:

-a drunk playing bumper cars in the parking lot late one night (years ago when we lived in an apt)
-a confused guy from an adult group home who was lost and walking in circles
- teens messing around riding on the hood of a car - you could hear one fall off and was obviously hurt - they took off though

 

[suejai]

We've had to call the cops a few times on my neighbor upstairs who insists on blasting loud music late at night.

This.

And the fire dept once to report an arsonist.

 

[mrsxsparrow]

Twice.

The first time we called the non-emergency number on our neighbors down stairs. We were all in college but the people down stairs were have a huge party that was INSANELY loud... we even had drunk people coming up and knocking on our door. Normally this wouldn't have been a problem (in fact, we'd probably have been there! ) but it was the day before finals and thus NOT OKAY.

The second time I was at work and had to call 911. I worked at a small gym at the front desk and can see right out the door. Well, some guy came and dropped of a suitcase right in front of the door and then took off. It freaked us all out and I called the cops. The entire bomb squad came out! Turns out it was just some guy getting a divorce and dropping off a suitcase of his soon-to-be-ex-wife's stuff. Why he felt the need to leave it outside and not bring it in and leave it with us I'll never know

I take that back it was three time! The third time I was on the freeway and there was a guy driving who was clearly drunk. He'd go from the left lane clear across four others to the right and almost run into the wall. Finally he hit the wall and got turned around, and started driving on the freeway in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION. It was one of the scariest moments of my life.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Yes. About 10 times now, all for one reason. My neighbors play music loud and late into the night, as in 1-2AM sometimes. When it's hot and I have to have the windows closest to them open, I call the non-emergency line and someone comes out. Funny, you'd think they'd get the hint.