911 systems choking on non-emergency calls. Get off your coffee/donut breaks and answer the damned phone!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26040857/

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knowledge
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Which of these is an emergency?

A Subway sandwich shop in Florida leaves the mayo and mustard off a
customer’s order.
* time to send an occifer to get off his ass and investigate the fraud
case
A Texas man can’t get a cab.
* definitely a public safety issue.  po-po, the emt wagon, or a fire
truck needs to give him a ride
* home
A Tennessee man’s stepfather keeps nagging him to do the laundry.
* this could quickly escalate into a 'domestic issue

To hear callers to 911 emergency lines tell it, all are

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listen, not everyone has a telephone book handy, and are not
economically able to afford
the heavy costs of directory assistance calls.

all of the above problems listed as "problem calls", or "outside the
realm of a 911 call" are
anything but.

youse guys just put down your coffee and donuts and hop to it....
chop, chop!

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