Have you ever had to call 911 for anything?

[Draconator]

I called 911 when I was with my ex. She was breaking out in a rash from her work as a gardener, so she went and took a shower. She said she was going out to the car for something. About 20 minutes later, she said she hasn't moved from her computer chair. I got up, and saw she was white as a ghost. I said I was calling 911 much to her objections. We agreed that I would tell 911 not to have the ambulance put on any lights or sirens when they pulled up. The paramedics came in, and they couldn't get a pulse on her. So they rushed her to the ambulance, and you bet the lights and sirens were on when they rushed her to the ER. Turns out she ate some Planters peanuts, and she had an undiagnosed peanut allergy and was in full anaphylactic shock. The doctors told me once she was stable that if we had waited another 10 minutes, she would have died. 

[Roundybout]

I usually only call for car accidents I've seen. I actually saw one happen live, and I received a call a couple of hours later from a detective who wanted my description. 

 

Besides that, I called 911 for a couple of homeless crackheads I saw slumped over in front of a vacant storefront. They sent a fire truck, two cop cars, and an ambulance (slow morning?). Naturally, the crackheads got up right when the fire truck got there and the police handled the rest. 

[davefan66]

Many, many times.

 

Several car wrecks. Father who fell. Myself - shellfish allergy and had a re-reaction. Work in a clinic and have had to call several time for patients who coded and those who needed transport to the hospital for other issues.  Called on a guy who was swerving terribly back and forth.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

2 hours ago, Another Fan said:

 

 

For me personally no though.  I very much expect that change some day though 

as an aside, great song! That Ska phase was short-lived, but fun! 

[Augie]

16 minutes ago, davefan66 said:

Many, many times.

 

Several car wrecks. Father who fell. Myself - shellfish allergy and had a re-reaction. Work in a clinic and have had to call several time for patients who coded and those who needed transport to the hospital for other issues.  Called on a guy who was swerving terribly back and forth.

 

My wife and I took my then 94 year old mother to lunch a few years ago. She was on a cane at the time, got sloppy and fell, breaking her pelvis in two places we later learned. She’s in obvious agony.  I’m on the curb with my mother while my wife is on the phone with 911…..who puts her on hold. Repeatedly. Other people are watching this, and I bet a half dozen called 911, but no ambulance even 20 inures later. A guy having lunch with his wife is watching all this from his table inside the window and finally comes outside. More time goes by and he gets so frustrated he takes off running to a fire department he knows of nearby. He showed up with a fire truck just as the ambulance arrived. 

 

That might sound like I’m complaining about 911, but that’s not really the case. Yes, that was disappointing, but the people around us who rallied and tried to help was very heartening. I mean, a total stranger ran almost a half mile to get help. It was almost like being in WNY for a blizzard. How can I help? 

[Golden*Wheels]

It's always a tough choice Augie....to be square, or not to be square. I'm old enough now, I got corners so sharp they can cut.

 

But there was a time I'd have said imma mind my bidnezz!

[Augie]

11 minutes ago, Golden*Wheels said:

It's always a tough choice Augie....to be square, or not to be square. I'm old enough now, I got corners so sharp they can cut.

 

But there was a time I'd have said imma mind my bidnezz!

 

Shortly after the upside down car incident a local kid made the news. His parents had gotten him out of two DUI’s, but on the third one he killed a cop. There is no coming back from that. Not that it matters, but I pray this wasn’t the same kid I didn’t rat out (even though I figured it out after the cops had left and with morning light). 

 

Maybe that’s why that sticks with me in the back of my mind.

[Talley56]

I actually had to on a few occassions but they were mostly due to being in the area of car accidents.  One time I called because I thought I was having a health episode but it turned out to be nothing.  I just felt like it was better to call and find out it's nothing serious than not call when it really is.

[BillsPride12]

5 hours ago, Augie said:

 

My wife and I took my then 94 year old mother to lunch a few years ago. She was on a cane at the time, got sloppy and fell, breaking her pelvis in two places we later learned. She’s in obvious agony.  I’m on the curb with my mother while my wife is on the phone with 911…..who puts her on hold. Repeatedly. Other people are watching this, and I bet a half dozen called 911, but no ambulance even 20 inures later. A guy having lunch with his wife is watching all this from his table inside the window and finally comes outside. More time goes by and he gets so frustrated he takes off running to a fire department he knows of nearby. He showed up with a fire truck just as the ambulance arrived. 

 

That might sound like I’m complaining about 911, but that’s not really the case. Yes, that was disappointing, but the people around us who rallied and tried to help was very heartening. I mean, a total stranger ran almost a half mile to get help. It was almost like being in WNY for a blizzard. How can I help? 

Unsung hero for sure.  Major respect for that guy

[Augie]

5 minutes ago, BillsPride12 said:

Unsung hero for sure.  Major respect for that guy

 

I wish I could go back and properly thank all those people. I tried, but when we finally got in the ambulance it was a blur. Even the employees were sincere in wanting to help, but complete strangers trying so hard to help strangers makes me feel better about this world. 

 

 

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Edited August 5 by Augie

[BillsPride12]

3 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I wish I could go back and properly thank all those people. I tried, but when we finally got in the ambulance it was a blur. Even the employees were sincere in wanting to help, but complete strangers trying so hard to help strangers makes me feel better about this world. 

 

 

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Yeah terribly sorry to hear about your mother having to go through that but overall that was a pretty cool story to hear about the excellent response from those good samaritans.  I know you already referenced this in your original post but reading that felt very "Western New York like"

 

I remember when I was 16 and had my first used car, my parents lived in a cul de sac that went around in a circle.  Middle of Winter and it's snowing outside, frigid weather and this stupid car stops running.  So one of my neighbors comes out to take a look at it and help me with it and then next thing you know the scene attracts another guy and we put the car in neutral and start to push it back towards my parents house.  Along the way more guys witness what happened and come over to join in and help us steer it back.  I had always liked football and the Bills since I was a kid but I'll never forget that moment because it's when I was starting to come of age and it made me realize being a Bills fan was more than just liking a fooball team it was also about a great sense of community we have living in WNY.  

 

I really loved and miss that old neighborhood.  My parents still live there but so many of the originals are gone now(having either moved down to Florida for retirement or some that have passed away etc).  It was an awesome place to grow up.  I vividly remember going to huge Bills watch parties in the neighborhood during the Super Bowl years, Summer Block parties, huge firework displays for the4th of July and just everybody knowing and looking out for each other.  It's true when they say you don't know what you have until it's already gone  

[Just Jack]

Three times I've called, and one time I was there while someone else was calling. 

 

1) Father's Day morning, late 1990's. Myself and one of my brothers were the only ones home at my parents house. It's before 7am, and in my dream I hear a crash. Wake up and look out the window (bedroom was on the front of the house) and there's a pickup up against the front of our house. I go outside and find the driver (late teens or early 20's) walking around the front yard, power pole in the yard has been broken. Figure out he was coming over the hill and must have passed out and gone straight, because when coming over the hill, the road curves to the right, he went straight into our yard, hit the pole, rolled the truck at least once, and somehow it ended right side up, against the small front porch. Beer cans scattered over the yard, over 20 is what I remember. What we found out later was that he was on leave for the weekend from whatever military branch he was in, his father's neighbor let him take his brand new truck out. That truck was now totaled, and he was arrested. 

 

2) Driving on the thruway, and this car as they are passing me on the left, starts swerving into my lane, I beep they move back into their lane. I start watching them, and it's apparent something is not right, inconsistent speed and failing to stay in one lane. I called, and start keeping pace with them, their speed was between 40-80 mph, sometimes driving on the shoulder, sometimes on the lines between lanes, etc. Eventually the Troopers caught up and got them to pull over. I would check the Trooper blotter online and about a week later it showed up, a female, driving impaired, with a child in the car. 

 

3) Driving home late after work, maybe 2am or later on back country roads, during the winter. Come around this one curve in the road and I see a lot of snow in the road, look over, and there's a car up on the snowbank, driver's door open and a leg sticking out. I stop and go take a look, guy somewhat passed out on the front seat, comes to as I approach. Says he fell asleep, can I call him a cab (there are no cabs where I lived, and this was pre-Uber) or take him to a truck stop. I just tell him I'll call for some help. Made the mistake of letting him site in my car. I was outside and I see him fiddling with the radio. I open the door and he yells at me that it's his car. Troopers eventually show up, they get him out of my car and into the back of theirs, he has my Bills winter hat on, so I have to ask them to get that back for me, because at this point, he's angry that I called 911, and calling me an #######. I hang out long enough listening to them question him that he tells them that he was in Utica (we are nowhere near Utica) because he's a gigolo. 

A few days later I have to go give my statement, it's the same Troopers, so they tell me that he was arrested, and tried to proposition the female Trooper while he was being booked. They also tell me that he had broken off the car key in the ignition, so even if he could get the car off the snowbank, it was not going anywhere. 

 

4) This one was somewhere in Texas, after dark but not too late, I'm driving down this service road near a highway and see a car pulled over and two people walking towards me on the shoulder. I then notice the large object on the should of the road, which turns out to be a person. I pull over also, and while one of the people call 911, I stand on the shoulder before this person (who is awake and talking) waving at people to move over. Once the firemen get there, I get a better look at this person, whatever happened it split the skin open on one of their legs, you could see the muscle, etc. I decide then, since the cops had arrived, and said they did not need a statement from me since I did not see the accident, I could leave. 

[Bills4everNY]

I did once. About 7 years ago, my next door neighbor's wife and 4 young kids went to visit her parents. I saw him around 8:30PM in the driveway, coming home from work and we talked for a little while. Around 9:00PM, I heard I gun shot from his backyard. I looked out our sunroom window and saw him lying on the grass with blood pouring out of his head and a gun lying next to his hand. I called 911.

[Wacka]

Pre 911, (1968) my mom was having a seizure.  There was a separate # for each volunteer FD and it was on a sticker on the wall phone.  My dad called it and before he hung up the sirens were going off.

I had to call a few times for an assisted lift for my mom. when her legs gave out while I was moving her from her bed to a wheechair. I was apologizing to the firemen, but he said that's what they're there for.

[LeviF]

Bunch of snitches in this thread. I know who I'm not partying with!

[Beck Water]

17 hours ago, Augie said:

 

My wife and I took my then 94 year old mother to lunch a few years ago. She was on a cane at the time, got sloppy and fell, breaking her pelvis in two places we later learned. She’s in obvious agony.  I’m on the curb with my mother while my wife is on the phone with 911…..who puts her on hold. Repeatedly. Other people are watching this, and I bet a half dozen called 911, but no ambulance even 20 inures later. A guy having lunch with his wife is watching all this from his table inside the window and finally comes outside. More time goes by and he gets so frustrated he takes off running to a fire department he knows of nearby. He showed up with a fire truck just as the ambulance arrived. 

 

That might sound like I’m complaining about 911, but that’s not really the case. Yes, that was disappointing, but the people around us who rallied and tried to help was very heartening. I mean, a total stranger ran almost a half mile to get help. It was almost like being in WNY for a blizzard. How can I help? 

 

Wow.

 

The 911 repeatedly on hold thing is disheartening. 

[Beck Water]

I've never called 911.  Called police non-emergency number a couple of times for this or that.

 

Had 911 called on me, when a middle-aged woman with her head in the car perusing her GPS ran a red light and t-boned my daughter's car as she was turning L on a green light.  I was sitting in the back seat, right at the point of impact.  They tell me I said "that car isn't going to stop" and kid sped up, trying to get out of the way.  Almost worked.  I was knocked out, spouse called 911.

 

Just then a Fire and Rescue truck pulled up.  They must have witnessed the whole thing.  The other driver claimed that my kid ran a red light and turned in front of them.  The police report doesn't name the F&R as witnesses, but it was very specific and definitive about what actually happened.

 

 

[US Egg]

Had a work accident, was rushed to the hospital, pre cellphones. My boss had two numbers to call for O.T. He called one to tell my wife, no answer, he a left message, called the other number, no answer, left a message. I’m in the hospital, drugged a bit, going to need surgery for a body trauma, but I’m ok resting in a bed. My wife shows up, a couple minutes later an another woman does too….

[Fleezoid]

18 minutes ago, US Egg said:

Had a work accident, was rushed to the hospital, pre cellphones. My boss had two numbers to call for O.T. He called one to tell my wife, no answer, he a left message, called the other number, no answer, left a message. I’m in the hospital, drugged a bit, going to need surgery for a body trauma, but I’m ok resting in a bed. My wife shows up, a couple minutes later an another woman does too….

 

So, your girlfriend shows up shortly after your wife? .......Awkward!

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

twice, for road-related things

 

had a car coming opposite way on the mass tpke go into the median, hit something and start doing sideways barrel rolls

had a car i was following driving erratically - probably DUI