The Lighter Side of the 911 Line: Getting a Kick Out of the Ridiculous
The Lighter Side of the 911 Line: Getting a Kick Out of the Ridiculous It is the job of a 911 dispatcher to straddle the border between life-or-death emergencies and what can best be termed as human comedy gold. Though these professionals are always prepared for true crises, they're sometimes blessed with calls that have them hiding their microphones to suppress laughter. Because in the most somber of careers, sometimes you have to laugh to keep from losing your mind. For every heart-stopping emergency, there's the caller reporting their neighbors for "suspicious snow shoveling" or the person demanding police assistance because a restaurant put pickles on their burger after specifically requesting no pickles. As one veteran dispatcher put it, "I've saved lives and I've explained that the ice cream truck is not, in fact, stalking anyone's children." One can explore the funny chaotic 911 dispatcher quotes and laugh through these completely bizar...