Emergency

So seems our society has reached a level of pure stupidity. When you call 911 you reach a voice mail service instead of a human. That when you enter a hospital with say a heart problem and instead of being concerned over the health and immediate danger of the problem the hospital is more worried about the insurance and paperwork.

Guess it all falls back to that song "911's a Joke" by Public Enemy, lol

 

when you call 911 in my area you actually do reach a person. my friends mom is the dispatcher. i called once at a party and she recognized my voice

 

I've never called 911

and minor emergency has only been used when all other clinics were closed

 

I have been to the hospital with a serious heart problem before. I had to wait in the room first and then spent 15 minutes dealing with insurance. It's a wonder people don't die during that.

 

If you call 911 inside the city of Houston you'll get chewed out for calling them in the first place, and then it will literally take hours for the police to get there, even in a life-threatening emergency. Houston has a surplus of police that are either on some special program funded by the feds' 'war on drugs' or some other crap, or they're hanging out in restaurants refusing to answer their radios. As a result, many areas hire their own private county cops that you have to reach by calling their number instead of 911 (of course you have to know the number of each county constable dept.) It's a real mess.

 

Weren't there two instances recently about Detroit's 911? One was a kid calling because his mom was hurt (or dead, can't remember). They told him he would be in trouble for playing with 911. The other was a woman who was shot in the head but still conscious. They bitched her out saying if she was really shot in the head, she would be dead.

 

Oh, yeah. That's the Motor City we all know and love.

 

I think Public Enemy can be used as a focal point for any political rally for the next 100 years.

 

that's scurry.

 

I think they see if your rich thru the caller id and location of your home and then if your not rich, who cares, lol

 

i'm scared to call 911, so i call 411 instead

 

this is true

 

well here it's 112, but same thing,
and i called once and they were like, wellllllllll young lady *sigh*
what happened? uhuh....uhuh...yeah, okay....sooooooooo, where ya at?
uhuh uhuh uhuh...

that all took 15 minutes- phonecall only

took 20 minutes till they got there