Posted on 03/06/2009 9:49:40 AM PST by Texican72
PARKER COUNTY – As an intruder roamed around her home, a woman repeatedly dialed 911 and received no answer.
Laverne Hokett woke up one February night to the sound of someone breaking down her back door.
"It's a thousand wonders I haven't had a heart attack," she said with tears welling up in her eyes. "I was so afraid."
After dialing 911 several times with no answer, Hokett called her daughter, Deborah Turpin, who lives nearby. Hokett then tried 911 again as the man inside her home screamed.
As Turpin and her husband headed to her mother's home, Hokett sat alone in her dark room and decided to call her neighbor.
"Well, he couldn't find the bullets to the gun," she said of her neighbor.
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And that, kiddies, is the moral of the story.
Dial 911 so they'll know where to go and draw the chalk outline around your corpse.
911 must have been busy taking calls from McDonalds customers
This is the way the gov’t wants us to store our firearms unloaded and separate from the ammo. An unloaded gun is nothing more than an expensive club.
Here in PA, the joke is, 911 is the number you call for cleanup.
“Where be my McNuggets?”
Taxpayer calls 911 asking for government to stop stealing money. Gets no answer.
But ... she managed to get a hold of her daughter and neighbor no problem ... multiple calls to 911 don't work, but calls to two other people do? And the police are blaming her cell phone? Funny.
I wonder if the damn thing is even loaded.
It's shocking how many people keep an unloaded gun "at the ready" for home defense.
After dialing 911 several times with no answer, Hokett called her daughter, Deborah Turpin, who lives nearby. Hokett then tried 911 again as the man inside her home screamed. ... "This is Parker County 911," a dispatcher said. "Your phone is dialing 911, is there an emergency?"Will AG, Eric Holder, please pick up the White Courtesy Phone."Someone's broken into my mother's home," Turpin replied. "I'm sitting here with a gun on him, and if he doesn't behave I'm going to kill him. ... We've both got guns on him. He's sitting here crying and bawling."Deputies arrived 13 minutes later and arrested the intruder."I thought the communications officers did a good job," said Capt. Mike Morgan of the Parker County sheriff's office.
Make sure your neighbor always knows where his ammunition is stored. Ahem. That burglar is unsuited to the task. He screams. Then he cries. She could have probably taken care of him with one nice, heavy saucepan if her aim was at all accurate.
Well, that's nice to know when some thug is busting down your door in the middle of the night.
This is a great example of how we can rely on government /s off
That number's in my speed dial, but I like to dial 1911 more.
Well, thank goodness the lady wasn't hurt, and the purchase of the shotgun is the silver lining in an otherwise dark cloud experience.
I wonder if the 911 system is using old equipment.
Wonder why it takes so long; a regular call doesn't. Why the difference?
Better to be armed with a good firearm and a cell phone. The criminal and the victim are the first to arrive at the crime scene. The police come later...often too late.
The telephone switch has to map your incoming 911 call to the correct law enforcement agency, look up your premises address and route the call to the agency. Once the phone starts ringing, a dispatcher has to answer. You might have only a single dispatcher covering police/fire/EMS/911/admin phones+radio+administrative tasks. My wife is a dispatcher and deals with this issue 5 days a week. Once your call is answered, you still have to assess the emergency and contact an officer in the field to answer the call...if you have one free to take the call. There's no guarantee that your resources aren't already committed to a call in progress.
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