8 Year Old Caught Making 135 Prank 911 Calls

[matcom]

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SOUTH GLENS FALLS -- Police dispatchers are no dummies. They know, for instance, that when they take a call from a little girl, giggling, who says "a doughnut just hit a car," it's a joke. Not really funny unless you're 8, but humor is subjective.

Less funny is when the calls are chillingly specific: "There's been an accident in front of Sokol's Market on Aviation Road. People are hurt."

An 8-year-old girl was caught red-handed Thursday after weeks of making dozens of prank phone calls, including some that led officers on potentially dangerous wild goose chases.

The girl and three or four friends placed a maddening 135 phone calls, mostly from South Glens Falls, since the end of January. Because of the way cellphone towers route emergency calls, about 35 calls went to dispatchers in Lake George and the rest went to Wilton.

"For that car accident we sent out police, fire, ambulance apparatus. We thought it was a real accident. We're lucky we weren't delayed going to where someone was actually hurt," Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said Thursday.

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Cleveland said that sheriff's deputies in unmarked cars would drive around South Glens Falls every day, waiting for the girl to make a call. On a few days, Cleveland himself went on the hunt because he has an unmarked car and doesn't normally wear a police uniform.

Their break came Wednesday afternoon when the girl placed a call at 4 p.m. Dispatchers were able to locate the signal within 10 feet, and an unmarked sheriff's patrol happened to be in the same South Glens Falls neighborhood.

Deputies knocked on the family's door and found the girl still on the phone with a 911 operator. The girl ran and hid in the bathroom.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=561694&category=FRONTPG&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=2/9/2007

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

1. Oh, if she was my daughter

she sure would have been dialing 911 for a real good reason. I would have ripped the skin off of her behind.

edit: I meant to say daughter. :hide:

[mtnester]

3. What I want to know is this

Who does not even EVER not visit their recent calls list? I mean, if I saw a 911 call there and did not make it myself...

OR, if this is the child's cell phone, REALLY who does not look at the recent calls list?

ANd I agree with you...snatched bald headed would also probably require a call to 9-1-1

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

4. Exactly!

And if any were at night when the child SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN BED... "COMMENCE THE MARATHON MEETING"- that ASS with my belt!!! Just like we used to get when we were little! You know, before CHILD ABUSE became a law.

[GOPisEvil]

2. I blame her parents.

Probably didn't read to her about the boy who cried wolf. :D

[Shakespeare]

5. Hoo-boy. Just imagine what she'll be like when she hits her teens.

Fun city. :scared: