I just did, by mistake.

ya, for real a few times. and not in pleasant circumstances.

At least it was not in the middle of the night.

I wish the emergency button wasn't always on the list when starting to make a call. I can see how it would be easy to accidentally touch.

Yeah, a few times I just prefer to forget.

Yes. Several times. Four time "medical," and one time "fire!"

L.W.

When I was 7.

I have our local county sheriff dispatch # in my contacts.

Call them a couple times per year.

Last was for a prairie fire I started.

Once, twice a year.

There is a long gradual curve in the highway in font of my house that sneaks up on some drivers. I hear the tires squealing, then thump. Another car in the field next to me or on top of my mailbox across the road.

I grab my cell phone, a pair of leather gloves, the glass breaker with seat belt cutter & hobble toward the scene. Thankfully, most are not hurt but have to at least call for the Sheriff for traffic control & such.

No.

I have never had any problems remembering 911. I think that is why they use 9-1-1.

Mistake? 3 numbers starting with 9 vs 11 numbers starting with 1. I think another reason they use 9-1-1 is to avoid mistakes. LOL

What did you think you were calling?

I dial 1911 ((((in my best Clint Eastwood voice)))

LOL

I was listening to a Cardinals baseball game, I must have pocket dialed?

Good way to get the cops at your house, kick down the front door and dump a mag in your dog while cuffing you.

Saw it on youtube.

A very polite young man!!!!

Yep, about 15 years ago. We were going home from dinner one evening and drove past a low income housing complex. A fat Mexican was drunk off his ass, stark naked, and shaking his dong at every car that passed.

After laughing ourselves silly, I dialed 911 and snitched on Julio the dong-shaker.

Around here, we dial 811.

a few times.

Once on the wife, once for myself, once the wife called for me.
No fun ambulance rides each time.

Couple of times.

Classic!

lol

Ya i call 91 couple times - had to

Yup once I told the broad to shut and listen told her what was going on and said good bye.

Around here, we dial 811 and they'll mark underground utilities.

911 is supposed to be used only for emergencies, not so you can feel superior.

No, I have not. We were playing volleyball in my sister's back yard and I jumped and came down just right (wrong?) and dislocated three joints in my foot. Somebody yelled for my sister to call 9-1-1. She got flustered after pushing the "9" paused a bit then asked "where's the 11?". Funny now . . . not so much then.

Yep. Once when a crazy passed a double line of traffic in the median of the interstate going thru Chattanooga at about 70 mph. Woman in the front with him and a kids head sticking up in the back.

Another time going thru Atlanta at night on I-20 and an apparently DRUUUUUUNK dude was taking up 3 lanes by hisself and varying his speed between 50 and 100 or so. In a van. Stayed behind him long as he stayed under 80 waiting for the po-po to show. But he exited and I relayed the info to headquarters.

I have called 1911 before!!

Just once. 2 vehicle accident ...it went well.

We had a phone over at the cabin that was given to us by a close friend. Had a 911 button on it. This phone was old and used batteries, we never installed the batteries. One day I picked up the phone to make a call and the buttons didn’t work, I pressed everyone of them and hung up the phone after no response. About 15 minutes later we got a call back from the 911 center. I told them it was a mistake that our phone was having issues. Phone still didn’t work after that.

No. Not yet

Once when I got a gun pulled on me by a drunk on I-94 in the middle of BFE North Dakota. The driver was swerving all over the road. I waited until he swerved way to the right and made my move to get around him. I may or may not have flipped them off when I went by.

They had a faster vehicle than my gf's 4 banger grocery getter. The passenger pointed a pistol right at my face when they came up a long side of us and I dynamited the brakes. Took down their license plate number and watched where they got off the interstate at.

That was pre-cell phone so we had to drive another 40 miles before we found a pay phone.

Yes, but EMT, Fire Department, I have never called 911 for LE assistance and never will.

I see no situation where I would call LE for assistance.

yup sure have

Yep, called 911 today.

Correct. When someone breaks into your home, dial 811 so you don’t take out the phone line digging the hole. 😉

If you've never called 911, you either lead a very sheltered life or have you head in the sand.

LOL, oh you were so important the world couldn’t survive without you.
Idiot

a couple of months ago one of my coworkers couldnt breathe and I called 911, everything turned out fine. Several years back I was sitting here on the computer and a guy on a motorcycle wiped out in front of my place and I called 911 but got no response. A minute later I got a call back, but medics and LEOs were already on the scene

I guess you just drive past a major accident in the middle of nowhere.

1. Car rolled 5 times in front of me. Elderly person who fell asleep at the wheel. They walked a way with scratches.

2. Car rolled at some point and I was first by it. Called when I could get reception.

3. Pocket dialed them somehow while driving the tractor. That was a pretty funny one. Hung up and they called back.

I know someone that had the cops come to their door and asked if they called 911. They said they didn't. They brought the officers into the house and found the littles kids playing with the telephone. Guess one of them accidentally dialed 911.

Let us thank God we have 9-1-1.

While back we were driving down the interstate snd saw a plane doing some crazy maneuvers. Spiraling, diving, stunt type stuff. All of a sudden it dropped out of the sky and crashed down to the earth. It was a ways off, so couldn’t see after it got below the tree lines. Had the sickest feeling in my gut, my wife started crying….. I called 911 and told the lady what we’d just witnessed. She started laughing, I’m like WTF?! She says we been getting those calls all afternoon, it was some RC airplane club having a show….
Felt like a dumbazz!

I’m more thankful for 1911. God made man, Sam Colt made them equal.

Yup!

I always wondered who developed that system.

Did god come up with the 511 for highway updates?

Yes Mike.

I responded when they called 911.

I thank you Tide!

Then, thank you god!
😁

It's complex Mike, many of our modern '"miracles" have been brought by revelations of The Holy Sprit.

I got a kick out of my son when he was about 8 or 9. He says " I know what to do if you get hurt dad I'll call 991"
I thought great I'll bleed to death on a fast busy signal!
When I was on the FD a lot of cell phone fires.
people would call in from 10 miles away without a clue what was burning where

Yes. Witnessed a mid-air collision. Turns out it was all for naught as there were no survivors.

There is nothing wrong with leading a sheltered life either. It is a blessing that most don't have.

Twice.

Once one night a buncha thugs were having an argument outside a fried chicken joint, one retrieved a baseball bat from his vehicle. I figured heads were about to get busted so I called 911. I was on a bicycle across the street. Didn’t wait for the outcome.

I ride a pretty big loop in the morning when time permits on a bicycle on my way to work. Nice areas some section, bad others. One short cut I don’t take much is an alley past a run down apt complex.

Twice over the last three years or so in that alley I’ve ridden past junkies shooting up. First time was a couple of guys sharing a needle, second time a guy, maybe thirties, was sitting on the edge of a mattress shooting up. A girl who coulda been in Middle School judging by her size was sleeping under a blanket, only the top of her head visible.

I called the Cops on that one soon as I was around the corner. Didn’t wait to see the outcome, I was late to work.