47 Of The Most Wild, Disturbing, And Bizarre Calls That 911 Operators Ever Took

My friend in the ER told me how someone passed out on an escalator and his hand was running unto the grate where the top of the escalator meets the floor for half an hour before someone found him. His hand was pretty messed up from what I heard.

I am not the source, this happened to my brother in law. He was a paramedic and his ambulance was responding to a call in the poor part of the city. A young girl was bleeding. They got there and the girl said she was bleeding from her v****a. The mother was there but was clueless. They looked around and counted the number of siblings. I don't remember the exact number, but it was over a dozen. The mother had never had a period in her life. She really did not know what it was and could not explain it to her daughter.

This is my favorite true story of how messed up the welfare system can be.

There was a young boy about 3 trapped in his parents trailer that was on fire. We knew he was in there, the grandmother had gotten all the kids out but that one. She thought maybe he went and hid or something. The fire department did everything they could even at great personal risk but in the end the child had died of smoke inhalation. It was a painful 1-2 hours as they fought the fire and tried to save him, though after the first half hour we were pretty sure he couldn't have survived. My son was about the same age as that boy and it hit me hard, I probably should have gotten grief counseling or something but they didn't do that for dispatchers at the time.

Not me, but my aunt is a dispatcher. She got a call a couple years ago from a guy who, *ahem* had something stuck in him... she's actually dealt with this type of thing before. Anyways, paramedics get there, and find out it was an entire butternut squash up this guy's a*s and he couldn't get it out.

Worked as a 911 dispatcher a few years ago. An old man called one day. He was all panicked. Just by hearing his voice, I was sure I was going send the ambulance for his dead wife.

I asked him a few questions about his address and I asked him calmly : sir what's the emergency ?

He was still panicked and told me with a shaky voice : my wife. She picked the margarine in the fridge and it's all turned to oil !!! What should we do ?

I waited a few seconds expecting a burst of laugh but no. The poor old man was serious. He had margarine issue and call the 911.

Good times.

I got dispatched for neck pain. Get there, find out a couple were having s*x on a couch when the female heard a large pop in her head, followed by a splitting headache and nausea. We transport and after a CT scan find that she somehow developed a tear in her arachnoid meningeal tissue. Serious s**t, but humorous and odd.

Another NYC - received an anonymous call that a Patrol Car (RMP) was parked in the middle of a street in Harlem with the doors open and no Police officer in sight. We used to get tons of prank calls but after a while your gut tells you when they're real. They found the Officer several blocks away. He had been shot and then dragged by the perp's car for several blocks. Terrible.