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I love the interjection of reason by the 911 operator.
I work in 911 dispatch, trying to inject a bit of reason into stupid and scary situations is a big part of my job.
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I had a call one time, they guy had been threatened by a bunch of teenagers with knives on a bus
The bus came to its stop the teens got off and so did this rocket surgeon (instead of, you know, not getting off at the same stop as a bunch of armed kids who were just threatening you)
That's about when he called and I answered.
This idiot was following them.
I told him not to, and reminded him that they have knives.
He told me it was ok because he had a knife too.
So I basically had to explain to him why that was fucking stupid.
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Another time, I get a call from someone because there was a crazy guy with a machete out on their porch.
Her stupid fucking husband wanted to go outside to fight him. So I had to keep telling her to make him stay inside.
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We had a domestic once, we actually got calls from both parties. One half was outside the house, the other half was inside, and they're basically standing at the front door yelling at each other.
My caller was inside. I told them to just close and lock the door and wait for the police. They did. Problem solved, right? Arguing stopped, the other party even walked away from the door after that. I get all the info I needed and hang up.
Except like 2 minutes later, I see that we're now sending EMS out to that house.
Because my stupid fucking caller opened the door to start arguing again and got pepper sprayed by the other party.
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Those are probably the three biggest stand-outs I've had so far, but I'm really hard-pressed to think of any disturbances or domestics, that couldn't have been resolved, or at least kept from escalating if at least one party would have just walked the fuck away. Close the door, roll up your window, go into another room, step outside, walk down the block, go sit in your car, etc.
Or hell, even just sit there and ignore them.
But no, they always need to get the last word in. They can't swallow their stupid fucking pride for even one second.
And it's really disturbing that those kinds of people are making their ways into law enforcement type positions.
It's not a new phenomenon, and it's not just ICE, it's regular cops and such too.
But these aren't the kinds of people who can help solve problems. These are the kinds of people who are problems.
And often they get away with it. See George Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin.
I have to quote St Carlin
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
Well, fuck me. People think they're clever with that line outside of reddit too.
Wow, it's rare to see proof of a statement in the very next comment.
It just give me a point of clarity in a crazy world. When people are being daft I just like to remember, probablity wise, I'm probably verbally fighting with a moron and morons are good at being dumb.
Probability wise, stupidity is not necessarily a normal distribution.