Leaking Mass. house dials 911 for help

[Liberal_in_LA]

Leaking Mass. house dials 911 for help

April 29, 2011


After months of enduring a leaking pipe that buckled its floors and sagged its ceilings, an empty Massachusetts house somehow called police for help.

The Salem News reports the 911 call went out to police from a house in Marblehead on Wednesday after water short-circuited the phone system, apparently sparking the emergency call.

Officers were sent to the address after the call was recorded as a hang up and a return call got static.

Inside, they found the wreckage, including potentially toxic mold, from a pipe that apparently burst during the winter.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/29/state/n082740D54.DTL#ixzz1KwSF1wSo

[virgogal]

1. Amazing.

[hunter]

2. "He says James was left financially secure by his father and often travels..."

How does that happen?

Maybe his dad's ghost dialed 911 as a way of telling the kid to take better care of his house!