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- baiwushi, on 05/28/2009, -1/+30I agree that it's complete abuse of power calling 911 for non-emergencies situations. But the father in the video kind of does make a good point, how many people actually knows the local, non-emergency police line if you need assistance from a police officer?
- diemunkiesdie, on 05/29/2009, -0/+25She laughed at the son-in-law for bad English? Has she not heard herself speak?
- AmyVernon, on 05/29/2009, -2/+22While that in and of itself is a good point, there's no reason for him to call the police at all - emergency or nonemergency - for a freakin' missing juice box.
- sageerrant, on 05/29/2009, -1/+15Wayside.
- psylence, on 05/29/2009, -0/+12Hi, I base my thoughts on law enforcement based off information I see on the internet. I am a level-headed rational person.
- diemunkiesdie, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8I have no idea what the non-emergency number would be, but even then it would probably be a local number that would be more than three digits. That would only be good for when you are near your home. If you have a non-emergency situation away from home, who do you call? There really needs to be a three digit code that would automatically go to the nearest police non-emergency line.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, 311 is the code for non-emergency services. - bashnu, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8I do not know what is worse;
- A man called 911 to complain that McDonald's left a juice box out of his order.
- The employee called 911 because she felt threatened because she forgot the order.
- CNN made a video about it.
- It is on digg front page - rompom7, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6Ok. Let me try and understand what you are saying... The guy that called 911 should have known that they wont dispatch the police unless there is an opportunity to break down a door at 2AM?
Not that the guy should have used a non emergency line, or asked to speak with the manager, or something like that? - makkaveli19, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6Kind of agree and disagree amy. if someone is stealing(yes technically stealing) from you, even if it's a penny, it's an infringement on your rights. i don't know who else to call but the police.
- kalleanka, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5The non-emergency number is 3-1-1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-1-1 - Recoil, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5"This is serious! I'm missing important vitamins here, I could get cancer!".
- adeelarshad82, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4That's exactly what i was thinking when i watched. I was like really? you were laughing at his accent.
- inhalent, on 05/29/2009, -1/+5Can't live without that precious McDonalds!
- jumanous, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4Man... forget 500 years, idiocracy is now.
And I'm not just talking about that video. The one on the same page about "Atty: tot mom video is cruel". I was waiting for the presenters to call her a dumbhead. Their interpretation of her body language was haleriously bad. "she was playing with her hair, and she even smiled a couple of times" (implying she was completely fine).. yet anyone looking at her with any understanding of body language would understand she was scared ***** under that false brovado. - verkon, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4No soup for you!
- WarmMachine, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4I am the only person to notice that the McDonalds employee called 911 also, and did not get arrested for calling 911 for a non emergency?
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -2/+5Stories like this make me seriously wish a rogue asteroid would destroy Earth.
- gemlarin, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3Why not just call the McDonalds corporate offices. Isn't the the most logical thing to do? They are not going to argue with you. They will just ask for your receipt number, and the matter of concern. Then they call the franchise owner and get it resolved. It is just a juice box, it not that big of a deal.
- autobulb, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2Wow, what made this story really get me is that after all this is said and done, they still go back to McDonald's for their food. Maybe I'm just reading into it a little too much, but that's hardcore addiction right there. They felt like they were given unsatisfactory service, they took the wrong measures to resolve it, now he will be punished for it and yet they still will go back for their business. In other words, the losers quite simply are the family.
- Owned1Up, on 05/29/2009, -2/+4Listen when you need juice, you ***** need it now.
- assafig, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3you english bad, ha ha! no juice for you
- warrenterr, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2that's what she said
- yessirsir, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2so ?
- Broomie, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2Actually it is better, because it actually links to the story. The main link goes to another video for me.
- illDecree, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2At first i though "oh *****, another person from here (jacksonville) called 911 over some damn food!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZCXoU31tuQ
Glad to see it wasn't us this time!~ - skipvt, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2To protect and serve... If Adam 12 had been dispatched, no one would have ended up in jail, and the issue would have been solve to everyone's satisfaction.
- oyflaaaayvin, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2CNN's video site never loads for me with firefox. I have to get into IE to watch this stuff.
- gllopc, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2@rageguy: They felt that they paid for something, and as a result they received nothing in return, which is theft - a crime. Under your definition, the police were rightly called to investigate that crime.
- pileopooh, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Hey I have a thought...how about calling 411 and asking for the local police department number. Dialing 911 is just being lazy.
- dandd20006, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1The employee called because she said that she felt threatened. Now, there is no way that we can prove she felt threatened or if she was simply overreacting. Either way, feeling your safety being threatened is a legitimate use of 911, where a missing juice box is not.
Now, I am assuming that the McD's girl overreacted and was in no immediate danger, but if she did feel truly threatened then her call is legitimate. How would it look for the police to arrest her and then have to prove somehow that she didn't feel threatened? It would be a no win situation for the police. On the other hand the guy called the police over a juice box and there is absolutely no justification for that. - kungfool101, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Oregon
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -1/+2Wow people are totally missing the point, this guys is new to this country and he made a mistake. You don't take a man to jail and put orange on him for doing that. Its like calling a mentally retarded person an idiot. People are becoming so stupid these days that they don't use a part of their brain that is made to think. Everyone goes by the book these days...sad.
- MisterFurious, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1Similarly, Steve Martin used to say you could get away with a lot of things by saying, "I forgot."
"Let's say you're on trial for armed robbery. When you're in the courtroom standing before the judge, simply say, 'I forgot armed robbery was illegal.'" - inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Video won't load.
- bmatherlyjr, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Actually what I was saying was calling the police was a waste of time "the breaking down the door, was satire based on what SOME officers get off doing to harass people (some being completely innocent, because the law enforcement intelligence they follow leads them to the wrong house) over a food dispute. The guy just took it to a whole new absurdity when he called the 911 (which has happened in the past doesn't make it any less darwinism). Peace officers don't exist, was the argument I was taking and in grand digg form most missed my point and harped on the sensationalist satire.
- gnixon70, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1A lot more can be done by calling the corp line in a lot of cases.
I purchased a 5pack of some hi efficient bulbs one time and one had turned out to be defective. I had already distributed the others throughout the house in various places and didn't' want to collect them all and return the package back to the store. Instead went through the manufacture and got a free coupon for a three pack of those like a week later.
If you go through the manufacture, more often then not they will make it right and then some, if you approach them the right way. - yessirsir, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1yeah idiots are everywhere .........sigh
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Killing a person and saying "Oh i didn't know that was illegal" and Dialing 911 for a stupid reason is not the same my friend.
- yessirsir, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1whats worse is that a list of these facts can be listed.
- gemlarin, on 05/29/2009, -1/+2How about just calling McDonalds corporate. I had an employee argue with me over an order mistake before, so i politely asked for the corporate number from his coworker, and stood there and called. They put me on hold, called the franchise owner who then called the store and resolved the problem. Plus I got some free food coupons out of it for the "inconvenience".
Seriously, why would you call 911 over an issue with a food order? That is just nonsense. - ImTakiNuSRS, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Ignorance of the law cannot justify breaking it. The second you start living in a country, you are assumed to know the law, and it is your responsibility as a citizen to get information if you do not know the law.
The reasoning behind that goes like this: Do you have any kind of idea of the abuse we'd have to deal with if every criminal would go "Well I didn't know it was illegal!" How do you prove he did know? That would hog up our judicial system, and criminals would have a HUGE backdoor to get out of sticky situations.
So no, it's not just going by the book for the sole purpose of mindlessly going by the book. - inactive, on 05/29/2009, -1/+2There is a difference between a killer and this guy. You say ph number of the police? Which is what? A warning would be perfect for this kind of situation (1st time) but taking someone to jail is way to much. A man came to this coutry (who is not a terrorrist) to live a life and we throw ***** at him for a very small mistake...yeah no wonder why people hate us so much.
- Ellement, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Baby Buster would sympathize
- yessirsir, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0yeah, everyone knows that !! lol
- dandd20006, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0Well, there are these things called Phone books and directory assistance. Hell, the guy had a blackberry! He's smart enough to use a blackberry, but not smart enough to talk to a manager or at least use a non emergency line to call police?
I like how further in the story they start to claim they were made fun of for not speaking good enough english. Did you hear the girl from McD's on the 911 tape? She didn't exactly speak the best english either, so I seriously doubt that she had a big problem with the guy's english skills. - Bloodweaver, on 05/29/2009, -1/+1You probably use TV, radio and newspaper also.
- yessirsir, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0cant get any more stupid ....
- MisterFurious, on 05/31/2009, -1/+1Perhaps I should have made my point differently. 911 call centers are busy enough with actual emergencies. Frivolous calls like this one hold up the lines and prevent people with legitimate emergencies from getting through.
Let's hypothesize. Let's say your mother is having a heart attack. You call 911, but you can't get through because this guy is calling about a customer service issue, not an emergency. Because of the delay, your mother dies. Would you still cut this guy a break because he doesn't know any better? Would you still say we should let him get off with a warning, even though his selfishness cost your mother her life?
I also notice you didn't dispute my assessment of him as an idiot. At least we can agree on that... - MisterFurious, on 05/29/2009, -1/+1What if a real emergency call didn't get through because this guy was too lazy to look up the non-emergency number for the police? Would you still think we should cut the guy a break if someone had died because of him?
Personally, I think jail will be a good lesson for him. Maybe next time, he'll bother to actually LOOK UP the number for the police. At the very least, he'll weigh the risk of going to jail against the loss of a stupid juice box that probably cost him a dollar and change.
Then again, perhaps not. He still goes to that McDonald's, so that proves he's an idiot.
Darwin, why hast thou forsaken us? -
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