911 Dispatcher Sorry for 'Shooting' Comment

[sws4420]

WATAUGA, Texas — A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother's plea for help with an unruly child by saying: "OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?"

"I admit what I did. It was stupid, it was inexcusable and I'm sorry," said dispatcher Mike Forbess.

The woman, identified only as Lori in Wednesday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, said she recently phoned authorities after coming home to find her daughters fighting. She told the dispatcher that her 12-year-old had kicked a hole in the door.

After Forbess' comment, the woman fell silent for about five seconds.

"Are you there?" Forbess asked.

"Excuse me?" the woman asked.

Forbess, a dispatcher for five years at the Watauga Department of Public Safety, told her he was joking and apologized. But the woman was offended, and Forbess immediately told his supervisor what happened.

"This type of response cannot be tolerated, and this letter shall serve as notice that any future unprofessional responses while answering the 911 line will be cause for termination," Police Chief David Van Laar wrote to Forbess.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153369,00.html

[Mikey]

:doh:.....his bad

[snobord447]

This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks we've heard about a 911 operator being a dick.
:huh:

[sws4420]

My stupid ex locked my daughter in her car by accident in 95 degree weather one day when she was like a year old and she called 911 in Saratoga County. The operator told her there was nothing they could do and that she had to call a locksmith. So then she calls AAA and tells them to hurry, and AAA also said there was nothing she could do, either. She was on FoxNews and everything.

[snobord447]

My stupid ex locked my daughter in her car by accident in 95 degree weather one day when she was like a year old and she called 911 in Saratoga County. The operator told her there was nothing they could do and that she had to call a locksmith. So then she calls AAA and tells them to hurry, and AAA also said there was nothing she could do, either. She was on FoxNews and everything.

AAA can't do anything if you lock your keys in your car?!?! That's such bullshit - I locked my keys in my car once, no kid in the car or anything - and AAA came with the police and they checked my registration card and my liscence with the registration on the car and when they proved it was mine, bam, they let me in. No problem, no fee. Only took like 15 min. from the time I called til the time the police came... and then AAA was there like 10 minutes later.

[sws4420]

:rotflmao:
I just heard the actual 911 call on the radio. That dude is hysterical.

[Mikey]

wow....if AAA or 911 can't do anything like that then that's horrible cause it can be a matter of life or death for something like that

[mb*]

:rotflmao:
I just heard the actual 911 call on the radio. That dude is hysterical.

put the link on here so we can hear it too. fag.

[sws4420]

It was on the radio. I don't have a link. Lemme look.

[mb*]

http://www.dfw.com/multimedia/dfw/news/FWslideshows/911/shoot.html

you may have to register to the site.

[sws4420]

Ha! That fucking rules.

[Mikey]

lmao...he sounded so relax when he said that.