"You never can tell for sure!"
Posted on 10/27/2011 1:30:55 PM PDT by presidio9
The audio: Our place in the cosmos can be a bit disorienting, which might partially explain why a British man recently dialed his country's version of 911 to report an unidentified flying object above his house. Confused and nervous, he told the rather steely operator peppering him with questions that there was an "enormous light blazing" in the sky. "I don't know what the hell it is," the man says. "It's not an airplane, but it's hovering." Two minutes after he hung up, the man called back. "I made a mistake," he said. "You won't believe this… It's the moon." (Listen to the audio below.) The police released the tape to the public this week to serve as a reminder not to clog up emergency phone lines.
The reaction: What's especially striking is "the genuine panic from the man," says Aaron-Spencer Charles at Britain's Metro. It's clear why the operator initially treated this as "a serious matter." Well, what's not to take seriously about reporting "a Death Star hovering over" your house? says The Daily What. In any case, "I feel very sorry for the people who have to deal with these phone calls," says Casey Chan at Gizmodo, "but very happy" that amusing callers like this exist. Check out the audio:
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Soused? High on dope? “It’s the moon!”
“That’s no moon....”
you know it’s time to step out of the basement when...
meanwhile, you screwed up your attempt to salt the page with your tracker.
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Almost as good as that hippie on mushrooms crying over a rainbow.
i’d like to know why presidio9 is trying to farm the ip addresses of FR viewers / members
Where’s the, “hold muh beer, I gotta call 911”, in this story?
You have to wonder if in reality they got to him. He seems very certain that a UFO death star is hovering over his home but then after (maybe a little time with the alien mind ray?) a few minutes he calls back and every is fine and he just made a mistake?
He would have been fun to have as a passenger in a car.
“DUDE! IT’S, LIKE, -FOLLOWING- US MAN!!!”
Wow! I just looked out my window here and the aliens are burning half the human race up in the sky!!!! Cal 9-11!!!
Oh wait a minute! Cancel that call, it is just the Sun.
LOL! I like the way you think.
Because he’s a lunatic?
“How far can you see at night?”
“How far da’ moon?”
He does sound deep in his cups. What I noticed was how patient and profession the 999 operator was after he admitted it was the moon.
This one?
If this man was on the pinglist of SunkenCiv... he NEVER would have made this mistake. LOL!
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