Dispatcher: Nine-one-one What is your emergency?
Caller: I heard what sounded like gun shots coming from the brown house
on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address?
Caller: No, I'm wearing a blouse & slacks, why?
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Dispatcher: Nine-one-one What is your emergency?
Caller: Someone broke into my house &
took a bite out of my ham & cheese
sandwich.
Dispatcher: Excuse me?
Caller: I made a ham & cheese sandwich & left it on the kitchen table &
when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.
Dispatcher: Was anything else taken?
Caller: No, but this has happened to me before & I'm sick & tired of it.
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Dispatcher: Nine-one-one
Caller: Hi, is this the police?
Dispatcher: This is 911. Do you need police assistance?
Caller: Well, I don't know who to call. Can you tell me how to cook a
turkey? I've never cooked one before.
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Dispatcher: Nine-one-one. Fire or emergency?
Caller: Fire, I guess.
Dispatcher: How can I help you sir?
Caller: I was wondering.....does the Fire Dept. put snow chains on their
trucks?
Dispatcher: Yes sir, do you have an emergency?
Caller: Well, I've spent the last 4 hours trying to put these chains on
my tires & .... well.... do you think the Fire Dept. could come over &
help me?
Dispatcher: Help you what?
Caller: Help me get these chains on my car!
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Dispatcher: Nine-one-one What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I'm trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an
eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven.
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine- one-one
Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one &
nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.
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Dispatcher: Nine-one-one What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant & her contractions are only two minutes
apart.
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband
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Dispatcher: Nine-one-one
Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath.
Darn...I think I'm going to pass out.
Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?
Caller: I'm at a pay phone. North & Foster. Damn......
Dispatcher: Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?
Caller: No
Disipatcher: What where you doing before you started having trouble
breathing?
Caller: Running from the police.