35 Funny Non-Emergencies That Someone Called 9-1-1 About
‘It was a semi-deflated blow-up doll’
Fires and carjackings are obviously emergencies, but there are people out there with different definitions of “dangerous,” like the woman who called 9-1-1 multiple times to report a turtle on her lawn. Or the guy who called because he was worried that his neighbor’s table saw, which was several houses down, would catch wind, blow into his house and injure him.
Other Redditors have remembered emergency calls that turned out to be very serious non-emergencies, and maybe we should have a separate line just for the neurotic among us.