Follow-up on Theft Post
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davis_squareThis post is a follow-up on this one from yesterday.
I received a response from the city of Somerville (Tom Champion, speaking from his conversation with Deputy Police Chief Upton) regarding why I was asked to hang up from my 911 call to dial the "non-emergency" line.
When I placed the 911 call, the woman asked whether I was just getting home. My response was "I'm already in the house." Not the most eloquent of responses I admit, but it was 3:45am. And apparently that, coupled with "the fact that [I was] calm on the phone" implied that it wasn't an emergency. That begs the question: how should I have been acting if there was a break-in in progress to *my* apartment, and the perpetrator(s) are in another room?
Note to self: scream at the top of your lungs and drop a couple F-bombs when you're on the phone with 911 and being robbed. If you don't scare the 911 respondent, you might scare away the robbers.
I received a response from the city of Somerville (Tom Champion, speaking from his conversation with Deputy Police Chief Upton) regarding why I was asked to hang up from my 911 call to dial the "non-emergency" line.
When I placed the 911 call, the woman asked whether I was just getting home. My response was "I'm already in the house." Not the most eloquent of responses I admit, but it was 3:45am. And apparently that, coupled with "the fact that [I was] calm on the phone" implied that it wasn't an emergency. That begs the question: how should I have been acting if there was a break-in in progress to *my* apartment, and the perpetrator(s) are in another room?
Note to self: scream at the top of your lungs and drop a couple F-bombs when you're on the phone with 911 and being robbed. If you don't scare the 911 respondent, you might scare away the robbers.
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Date: 2011-12-09 03:11 am (UTC)