My favorite part of the Issaquah Press is Police & Fire. It's like a police blotter where you can read about shoplifting, car prowls, DUI, etc. . The titles they give each little snippet are always funny - a play on words. For Example - WarGames - a story about the police being called for a suspected domestic disturbance only to discover it was siblings arguing over computer usage.
I was very surprised this week at a number of stories that all involved the same thing. The titles were On Demand, Good Deal, Program Error, Leave A Message at the Tone, and Rescue 911. What did all of these stories have in common? They were all people who misdialed and called 911 by mistake. How on earth do you do that? I would think it would be a little hard - and even more so for 5 different people to do that in the same week! 3 of them were people trying to call someone and misdialed. 1 person was trying to program their phone and the last person was trying to retrieve a voicemail. I can understand the last 2 - it's easy to think you are entering a programmed number and not realize you are actually making an outgoing call. The first 3 though - how do you misdial? It's not like there are 911 area codes - there are no 911 prefixes in Washington - I'm pretty sure you don't need to dial a 9 first at home to get an outside line. It just boggled my mind!
The weirdest story from yesterday's paper: Godly Grandma - a woman called the police to report that an 89 year old woman called her wanting to see if she would go for a walk with her. She declined and the woman began voicing her religious beliefs. She was uncomfortable with this and wanted the police to call the woman and ask her not to call anymore. Hmmm . . . . . my suggestion would be for her to get Caller ID and just not answer the phone when this elderly lady calls. Not exactly sure it's an issue for the police.
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