Published: January 16, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor
Husband Breaks Wind, Wife Calls 911
By Robert Paul Reyes
"The Dominion Post newspaper reported Saturday that police in the North Island town of Wairoa responded to an emergency call from a 51-year-old woman who hung up after police answered the phone.
When police arrived at her house, she complained her husband had forgotten to spray the toilet with air freshener after a visit, police said." AFP
The woman should have never bothered the police for such a trivial matter, but after having placed the nuisance call the lady should have told the emergency operator the nature of her call. That way the cops would have known that they would be facing a flatulent man, and not a burglar brandishing a gun.
What did the lady think the cops were going to do? Declare a hazmat emergency? Arrest her husband for assault with a deadly weapon? Bring her an emergency supply of air freshener? Open all the windows of her home for her?
The idiot is lucky the cops didn't charge her with misuse of the emergency system. I'm surprised the cops didn't express their frustration by breaking wind in the presence of the stupid woman.
This incident took place in New Zealand, but a lot of fools here in the US also misuse the emergency number. Pranksters and people who call the 911 number for trivial matters should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
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