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This one has been around a while, but I still like it. Not sure if you can actually try it though. You might get fined for some obscure law... like obstruction or misuse of emergency services. Funny how the system works eh?

So, did the caller go to jail?

That is hilarious. I'd be afraid to pull something like that myself, though.

that made my day!

maybe if he said "i'm *going* to shoot them" he would have gotten the same response and also a case to beat any criminal charges on himself.

while this is probably just a joke, i hope people don't start lying about their calls to jump the queue. it would be like someone with a rash lying about their condition to get ahead of other people in the emergency room, people who might have more critical conditions.

If the police force was already stretched thin, they just took 90% of the coverage of one district to get some people to stop a shed robbery.

If it sounds like a joke, and reads like a joke, it must be a joke.

I know this is a joke, an old one at that, but anyway..

If you know someone is breaking into your shed, why the hell would you stand there, watch, and wait for the police farce to arrive?

I'd be straight out the back door (complete with sawn off sledge hammer handle at hand), give them a bit of a kicking, fling em in the boot of the car,take them to the nearest forest, tie them to a tree and leave them there.

Now THAT is justice.

Come to Chicago the average police response time for shootings is over 30 minutes.

He should have shot them.

He could have shot them with a camera. ;)

http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/response.htm

awesome digg

I'll probably get dugg down again, but there are times when the Police isn't available, depending on the "urgency" of the call. For example, if there is a huge wreck where people are injured, or if several units are involved in the middle of a drug bust, then yeah, there won't be anyone available to help you at that time.

However, if you give them the impression that someone is getting shot, then yes, they will have no choice but divert some of the units to answer that call. Obviously, the priorities change then.

The only problem is, if you actually did something like that, then you're also endangering ongoing operations else. Will someone who is seriously injured in that car wreck be worse off with less officers managing the scene? Will the drug bust be a bust with less officers backing them up? Maybe, maybe not.

But chances are very good that you will be ticketed or possibly even be arrested for lying to the cops like that.

There is no way the caller could get away that easy if this is a true story.

Huh? That's more of a lazy, unprepared homeowner than lazy police. Why wait for the cops to show up to defend your property, defend it yourself! When I hear people in my yard late at night I go running out the door with my driving iron and scream while swinging it around like a crazy man.

well its not about being on Digg, that peice of news was on email forwards like 5 years ago (maybe, it was a long time ago for sure)... it was funny then, it is still funny now

So having a scan of a text-only article lets you put [PICTURE] in the title?

"I called the fire department because my cat was stuck in a tree, but they said nobody was available. So I went to a payphone and told them there was a huge house fire! Three trucks arrived! They asked why there was no fire, and I told them I hadn't heard about any fire, but that while they were here, they might as well rescue my cat. lol The firefighters are really lazy. The same night they were 'too busy' to rescue my cat, some kid died in a housefire."
--The same situation, but with a service Diggers don't hate.

Seriously. Emergency Services have to prioritize. Don't try to jump the queue.

This honestly looks fake.

N.R.A. - protecting Sheds nationwide.

It has nothing to do with the police being lazy. They have a limited amount of resources to police a very large amount of area, so they have to triage 911 calls. Purposefully lying to a 911 operator is wrong and illegal. It pulls resources away from where they are really needed. If there was an armed robbery or a murder taking place then you just effectively reduced their ability to respond to that quickly and could be responsible for someone getting injured.

Well the article above was submitted by someone who lives in rayleigh, essex, uk where i lived so a quick google came up with this related article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article501091.ece. Chances are its just uk tabloid bull.

http://onlinefocus.org/?p=199
Here is keith budden from the article above. He is on the page from rochford(i was born in rochford :) ) /rayleigh area i think. Chances are this is from the southend evening echo or yellow advertiser.