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Get outta here!
No, I'm suggesting that it is not an emergency situation that requires a call to 911.
Get outta here!
Yeah those fines need to be in place to prevent gross misuse. But again, the operators should have transfered her. There is a flaw in the 911 system if people can't get through to an operator because of non-emergency calls. How hard would it be to put this woman on hold while you answer another incoming call?
Oh you know nobody's suggesting that!!! We are just pointing out that there is a difference in the level of terror tactics involved in forcibly taking money from someone on the street, and a "bait and switch" as this seems to be!
And I agree. But it's not exactly thread worthy... It happens all the time.
The reason this is in the news is because we like to laugh at how pathetic and dumb this woman is for wanting ty food so bad. This wouldn't even be in the news if it was a McDonald's salad.
But by all means, let's on this stupid lady for being desperate enough to react irrationally to having her dinner money taken from her.
Oh you know nobody's suggesting that!!! We are just pointing out that there is a difference in the level of terror tactics involved in forcibly taking money from someone on the street, and a "bait and switch" as this seems to be!
Okay, say she gives some guy on the street $5 because he promises her a card trick, and he runs off. She calls 911. Newsworthy or not?
She called 3 times. Did the police go out all 3 times?
Do you have a transcript of the 911 calls so that we can know exactly why the police were sent out?
There's audio of the calls on page 1. The second operator seemed to hang up on her, but the first and third operators took her info and sent an officer out. Like I said before, who knows if the first officer even got there. I'm just not in a hurry to lay all of the blame on her when this whole situation could have been prevented by both the McDonald's employees and the 911 operators.
While all that is true, it still doesn't rate a 911 call. Geez, I guess some people are just too stupid to live.
I don't know why she got desperate enough to react irrationally. Maybe that was her last $5. It still doesn't excuse her for misuse of dialing 911.
You're absolutely correct. The news media is sensationalizing the story, making the woman out to be the culprit for demanding her due rights as a consumer. The Mc Donald's staff is just plain ate up with the stupid (as Mc's corporate office proves by backing the customer). But I do think the worst transgression was on the side of the 9-11 dispatcher. I can't believe we pay people to not be able to distinguish a total non-emergency from a life threatening one! That's where the danger lies.
no because McDonald's is not involved.
If this same event transpired in a local Mexican food joint, MSNBC would not be running it.
..and if she calls 911 for getting burned on a card trick, she is misusing 911.
The Emergency Services system is run by much smarter people than the average McDonald's customer. It's pretty ed up if there's no way to deprioritize non-emergency calls while other emergency calls are waiting.
There's blame all the way around.
Too bad she is the one that got the citation for misusing 911 by calling it 3 times over not getting a $5 refund immediately.
I guess ES employees are smarter than I am by that logic.
Do you have a transcript of what the lady said exactly?
I wonder if all this is worth the $5?
3 times she called 911
I wonder if anyone can convince her this was not an emergency.
Here's another hypothetical to consider. Say this lady gets her McNuggets and leaves without paying. The CSR at McDonald's calls 911.
Newsworthy?
No, but I listened to the audio. I'm not sure why the transcript is important. It didn't sound like she mislead the operators into thinking it was more of a crisis than it actually was.
and they vote...
Good point. People need to use common sense when calling 911. If the CSR called 911 over chicken nuggets that would be stupid as well. I'm thinking McDonalds has a list of numbers to call. They can call the police not 911 and make out a report.
and they have kids
, I doubt that would even be considered FINE-worthy.
I thought you had to pay first before getting your food.
Not newsworthy.
Thats true
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