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Tennessee man arrested after calling 911, asking if dispatcher wanted to buy egg rolls

Monday, 7 September 2020, 19:30 MJA Uncategorized 16

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Memphis police arrested a man accused of calling 911 dozens of times Wednesday – on one occasion offering appetizers to the police dispatcher. more

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  11. …the dispatchers I worked with dated back to pre-911 days, so they could lay the patience on with a trowel, nice and even and straight to the truth every time.

    One time we took Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride to what was apparently a gang incident, but out pt wasn’t too bad and didn’t let on to the police what went on, so we thought it was just an accident and bandaged and packaged as normal, but went to the hospital Code 3 because we weren’t sure about blood loss because we found him over a sink and dude looked a little shocky to me and I was box guy that night, so I felt it prudent to expedite the trip. He was pretty stable though so I sat in the rearward facing jump seat by his head, where it was easier to manage the oxygen and write the report, so I noticed the headlights behind us and I could see the traffic lights to tell that he was busting intersections with us. That’s pretty dangerous even for two emergency vehicles in convoy, so I wanted to put a stop to it, figuring it was a family member (thought we didn’t see any on-scene), because that wasn’t uncommon and I didn’t want them getting hurt doing something stupid, because that helps no one. Cell phones were satphone sized then and not in use on City vehicles, we had a City band radio we could talk direct to OUR cops on but not other people’s and we were out of our district by then, so I asked my driver to relay position and direction to the County (he had to read street signs on the fly too, no GPS) which he did, and our Fire dispatcher coordinated with the Police dispatcher to have the police pick the guy off a couple of intersections later.

    Which was good, because our erstwhile trailer was looking to finish his conversation with our patient at the hospital with a pistol.

    As it was, no lives, black, white, Police, nor mine were lost that night to gun violence in this particular case.

    Because of professional dispatchers who knew their onions and were able to coordinate an intercept, answer a County’s worth of calls, and fend off nuisances like Egg foo Yung here all at the same time, God bless ’em.

    They were more than patient with this fellow.

    Seems like if he likes the County so much, he should spend about 30 days in their guest suite.

    …then maybe he’ll keep his egg rolls to himself…

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  14. …I liked a dispatcher I never met, who made it clear that being excited young men and women dealing with crap was no excuse for poor radio discipline.

    One of his pet peeves was the traffic concerning squads routed to our version (because many cities have one) of The Christ Hospital. See, this was all before texting and Computer Aided Dispatch, so every movement of any emergency vehicle had to be prefaced with a brief oral dissertation as to what the unit was and where it was going, and why (e.g. “1 Tom 91 en route to 222 Floral Avenue”, “3 Mary 11 returning to quarters”, “2 Paul 92 out at Mercy”, etc., which identified the part of the County the unit operated in, the city or village it was attached to, what type of unit is was, and what it was in the process of doing, which also said what it’s current availability was.

    Pretty efficient as spoken communication goes.

    Anyway, partly out of respect for the Lord, and also out of respect that some fireground command units kept County Channel 1 on a VERY LOUD repeater speaker where the neighbors and press and ANYONE could hear it, he would firmly correct anyone with a communication about travel concerning The Christ Hospital by truncating it still further, e.g. “2 Lincoln 91 EU route to Christ”.

    Which he would firmly, deliberately read back (read backs were required) as “2 Lincoln 91 en route to THE Christ Hospital, 22:13”.

    And the arriving unit would generally go out at the hospital later saying, somewhat sheepishly, “2 Lincoln 91 at The Christ Hospital”, so he’d know his message subtext was received.

    He was quite serious too. He would tell you to call the comm center when at quarters if you kept doing it to read you the Riot Act about it, and your Chief would get a call if he wasn’t getting through to you.

    …see, this had a practical side as well. Remember that first-round repeater I told you about? Well, if you were trucking someone’s loved one from the shattered ruins of their rapidly being consumed house, they were kinda sensitive for some reason, and reporting that you were taking their loved one “to Christ” sounded flippant at best, and could be construed as “code” for “this guy’s dead” at worst, leaving your Incident Commander with needlessly hysterical relatives to deal with, and your CIO with some ‘splainin to do to whatever press was present.

    Not good.

    …He was a master of tone, never raised his voice or bawled anyone out on the air, but the way he’d say your unit name alone told EVERYONE if you had a date with the woodshed later or not, and he could direct A County’s worth of emergency traffic with more finesse than an ATC controller at JFK.

    Dispatchers catch it from idiots on BOTH ends, but this is too long already, so just let me say again God bless ’em, and they EARNED that stripe on this flag…

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  16. as banned in china
    SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 AT 9:39 PM
    ” ..BEST EGG ROLL TENNESSEE! YOU BUY!”

    …not true, unless he’s from China Town on the Parkway in Sevierville, and since they’re not Vietnamese, he probably ISN’T…

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