OT: Joke, dial 911

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.

George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his
wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which
she could see from the bedroom window

George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that
there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" and he
said "no", they're in my shed. Then they said that all patrols were
busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be
along when available. George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and
phoned the police again

"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people
stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them
now because I've just shot them." Then he hung up.

Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response Unit, and an
ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence and caught the burglars
red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd
shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

I LOVE IT - Don't mess with old people!!

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

"Dana©" <AneeBear@ownmail.com> wrote in message
news:v25kr31kranmb0v7ik22mer08tgvs5pa7t@4ax.com...
> HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
-------------
I just forwarded this to everybody I know. Thanks for a great laugh.

Eva

Dana© wrote:
> HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
>
> George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his
> wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which
> she could see from the bedroom window
>
> George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that
> there were people in the shed stealing things.
>
> He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" and he
> said "no", they're in my shed. Then they said that all patrols were
> busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be
> along when available. George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and
> phoned the police again
>
> "Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people
> stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them
> now because I've just shot them." Then he hung up.
>
> Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response Unit, and an
> ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence and caught the burglars
> red-handed.
>
> One of the Policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd
> shot them!"
>
> George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
>
> I LOVE IT - Don't mess with old people!!

I love stories like this one, but it turns out not to be true -
at least, not at the time it was written. However, it did
inspire another incident, according to Snopes:

"In September 2003 a minister in Odessa, Texas, who felt police
were not responding quickly enough to his call about a
burgled church 40 minutes later followed up with a second phone
call in which he reported he was holding hostages and threatening
to kill them at that location. The three police officers who were
pulled off other cases to converge on the hostage call were not
amused by the ruse, and arrested its perpetrator, Paul Weymouth,
the 63-year-old pastor of Heights Christian Church, on charges of
filing a false report. Weymouth has since been released on $1,000
bail, pending trial."
http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/response.asp

IOW, even if the person is white-of-hair, it's not going to be a
popular tactic with the police.

FurPaw
--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To reply, unleash the dogs.

On Feb 19, 10:21 am, FurPaw <furrealpaw...@gmaildog.com> wrote:
> Dana© wrote:
> > HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
>
> > George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his
> > wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which
> > she could see from the bedroom window
>
> > George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that
> > there were people in the shed stealing things.
>
> > He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" and he
> > said "no", they're in my shed. Then they said that all patrols were
> > busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be
> > along when available. George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and
> > phoned the police again
>
> > "Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people
> > stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them
> > now because I've just shot them." Then he hung up.
>
> > Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response Unit, and an
> > ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence and caught the burglars
> > red-handed.
>
> > One of the Policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd
> > shot them!"
>
> > George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
>
> > I LOVE IT - Don't mess with old people!!
>
> I love stories like this one, but it turns out not to be true -
> at least, not at the time it was written. However, it did
> inspire another incident, according to Snopes:
>
> "In September 2003 a minister in Odessa, Texas, who felt police
> were not responding quickly enough to his call about a
> burgled church 40 minutes later followed up with a second phone
> call in which he reported he was holding hostages and threatening
> to kill them at that location. The three police officers who were
> pulled off other cases to converge on the hostage call were not
> amused by the ruse, and arrested its perpetrator, Paul Weymouth,
> the 63-year-old pastor of Heights Christian Church, on charges of
> filing a false report. Weymouth has since been released on $1,000
> bail, pending trial."http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/response.asp
>
> IOW, even if the person is white-of-hair, it's not going to be a
> popular tactic with the police.
>
> FurPaw
> --
> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
> every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
> a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
> those who are cold and are not clothed."
> - Dwight D. Eisenhower
>
> To reply, unleash the dogs.

those who live in areas of detroit 'unofficially' cut loose from key
public services know that they have no chance in hell of getting
police response unless they mention a gun being somehow involved.
even then that doesn't guarantee anything, let alone a timely
response.

some current anecdotal public safety snippets:
in a nearby affluent neighborhood, a friend told me about a elderly
neighbor who fell & broke her hip outside. there was no one around,
but she didn't panic because the police drive by every half hour.

across the main street in that same area, in a stable & nice detroit
neighborhood, a woman came home early in the morning to find thieves
hauling her possessions out to a big truck parked on the front lawn.
she called the police, as did some of the neighbors. the thieves left
to make a drop off & came back for more! i didn't hear whether the
police ever came at all to that one.