Calling the police for shots fired!

[krs]

Sinx....you trapped me into a rant!

 

[the foot]

If those were gunshots, I would move to another location ASAP. You can break a lease if the property is unsafe.

 

[OOOXOOO]

Gunshots don't necessitate a phone call to anyone in my neighborhood unless you can identify the source. I had a neighbor that liked to take model rocket engines and tape them to sticks, he then would use a half a roll of electrical tape to wrap around them very tightly. More than once I shot out of bed in the middle of the night to his special alarm clock. It really sounded like a shotgun. I know of his manufacturing process because I always found the remnants in my yard. He is gone now, however I still hear shots more than once a month.

 

[ants]

Save your breath, guys.

This thread is 2 years old. It's all over. Nothing to see here, folks.

 

[Jeff F]

When I was living in a duplex in Rancho Cordova CA I was working out of town a lot and the wife was home alone for days at a time. Late one night somebody shot a bunch of rounds off right outside the bedroom window and the wife calls 911 right away. She told them someone was shooting a gun outside real close to the house and scared the hell out of her. The 911 operator told my wife 'lady your just going to have to get used to it because it happens all the time' then hung up on her.

 

[Treo]

Are you sure the police did not over-react?

Have you ever known the police to underreact?

ETA I'm W/ the never call the police until you hear someone yell for help crowd

 

[beatcop]

Old, but here's .02 fwiw:

If you have no role in an event, other than placing a call, don't bother clouding a 911 call with your arming stance. I have been on so many calls where the dispatcher sends you to the callers apt, rather than where the issue is.

Under stress, the dispatch area gets chaotic. People are multi-tasking and cops in the field may not hear the whole transmission (radio turned to low, people yelling in the radio, "clipping" the transmission, talking over someone, on another call).

If you want no involvement (don't want the neighbors to know who called), advise the PD NOT to come to your door, but to call you on the phone.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Rip Van Winkle

I'm putting this thread back to sleep.

Hope y'all don't mind.