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Loading... What's The Number For 911?: America's Wackiest 911 Callsby Leland Gregory
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A series of transcripts of unusual 911 calls. There's one with a woman who has a cat floating in the air. A mother who wants a policeman to scare her child into doing his homework and numerous other examples of odd calls to 911 dispatch. Ok over all some are down right funny and others I'm left wondering why they were included in the book at all. no reviews | add a review
911 Dispatch: "911, what's your emergency?" Caller: "What were the winning numbers for the Evening Pick Four today?"Lauded as the "911 poster child" by Katie Couric, former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory takes us back to where the funny all began.From presidential philosophizing and political pandering to foolish felons and office idiots, Leland Gregory generates side-splitting laughter by chronicling the worst of human nature. Gregory takes us back to where all the laughs began by updating his 911 cult classic with more than 150 new tales of bizarre but true 911 calls such as: .911: "Do you know a good stain remover?".911 Report: Person answered "no" to the question: "Are you conscious?".911 Report: Man called and requested dispatcher call his wife to let her know he's on his way home and that she shouldn't yell at him. No library descriptions found. |
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That said, why do I have this book in my library? Because included at the end of the book is the transcript of the 911 call to Atlanta prior to the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. The author, having set out to soften us up with humor, presents us with the flaw to the 911 system and a very vivid example of why we should fix it.
He tells us something we need to know and I must admit, as a society we're probably more likely to read this message in this book making fun of 911 calls than we are in a serious report penned as part of a focus group on the effectiveness of the emergency telecommunications system. Kudos to Mr. Gregory for that.