Woman Says 911 Call Got No Answer

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

A rural North Texas woman said she dialed 911 repeatedly but got no answer as an intruder roamed her home in the dark.
Laverne Hokett lives in Parker County, just west of Fort Worth.
She said she was awakened one night last month by someone breaking through her back door. She dialed 911 several times from her cell phone but got no answer. Then she called her daughter Deborah Turpin.
She and her husband arrived at her mother's home and held the intruder at gunpoint while dialing 911 over and over before getting an answer.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Woman-Says-911-Call-Got-No-Answer-.html


I wonder if this is a result of budget cuts at the local level. Glad she wasn't hurt.


David

[Mind_your_head]

1. Texas

Again. eom

[anonymous171]

2. DAMN GUBMIT! ALWAYS FAILING AT EVERY TURN!

The GOP is one big scam. They gut the government, government naturally fails, then they campaign against that government. Ingenious.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. True. And for the GOP "first responder" doesn't include 911 operator. n/t

[Idealism]

3. Had to trim the pork outta state budgets somehow.

The 911 operators are overpaid, cut their wages so emergency services can remain viable! Right Sen. Shelby?

[Teaser]

4. Get up, and get get get down..

911 is a joke in yo town.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-ldcnhsLY

[MrPerson]

5. They were busy making sure the McNuggets did not run out.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

9. That's some funny shit.

[Lost in CT]

6. Well thank god she had a gun. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

Try reading next time, it keeps one from making ignorant statements.

[Lost in CT]

10. Your right...thank god her DAUGHTER had a gun. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. I think more appropriately thank God she had a cell phone and relatives close by.

[Lost in CT]

14. Relatives with a gun...

if she didn't have a phone she wouldn't have been calling 911 to begin with. And if her relatives showed up only armed with a sharpened wit this story may not have had a happy ending.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

15. I'm sure the gun aided in the apprehension.

I'm guessing he might not have been inclined to stick around otherwise.

David

[Lost in CT]

17. Thank You.....

:hi:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

18. Welcome.

:toast:

David

[masuki bance]

7. No-one in the U.S. Treasury department is answering telephone calls

"The head of the civil service, Sir Gus said the handover to President Barack Obama's administration was severely hindering preparations for next month's G20 summit.

In an extraordinary blunder, the usually-guarded Sir Gus said no-one in the U.S. Treasury department was answering telephone calls.

He said it meant the Government was finding it 'unbelievably difficult' to hold discussions ahead of the meeting of world leaders in London.

Even though the world was in the grip of the worst economic crisis in decades - top of the G20 agenda - Number 10 was having trouble getting in touch with key ersonnel, said the Cabinet Secretary.

'There is nobody there,' he told a civil service conference in Gateshead."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161037/Special-relationship-Obamas-people-wont-answer-phone-whines-Downing-Street.html

[Mind_your_head]

8. SOME people can't "get a clue", can they? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. to quote my not so favorite Right Winger.. You betcha

[EFerrari]

16. In my day, we didn't have cell phones and we chased burglars

on hot prowls away with our finger. lol

Thank goodness this turned out all right for the lady.