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Lee-Lee

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8. Most states have a charge of "misusing 911" or the equivalent

Reply to Haggis for Breakfast (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:46 AM

Jun 2018

In NC it had to be a clear cut case where the person couldn’t argue they legitimately thought they were in danger even if they were wrong.

So usually it was used for the repeated callers with nonsense or the drunks who called.

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I used to be a 911 dispatcher. I had to respond to racist calls every day. [View all] gollygee Jun 2018 OP

America has a lot of really ugly hateful and bigoted racist people about all sorts of things. RKP5637 Jun 2018 #1

I just shake my head Ohiogal Jun 2018 #2

I worked for a bank where my manager pulled the alarm because a black guy came in. Corvo Bianco Jun 2018 #3

Bless you for that work Haggis for Breakfast Jun 2018 #4

Most states have a charge of "misusing 911" or the equivalent Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #8

Dispatchers can choose Corgigal Jun 2018 #5

Depends what the local policy is on if they can not send Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #7

As a black man this shit terrorizes me way more than ISIS or MS13 or what ever uponit7771 Jun 2018 #6