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Originally Posted by ken0042
I haven't seen anything telling me to call 911 to report an impaired driver. (Maybe I missed it or something.) I would be a little bit afraid to call 911 and tie up a line while another person who is in more immediate danger (like a break in happening or something) isn't able to get through.
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It's kinda buggy what qualifies as an emergency and what doesn't. It's sorta like, if it's too late for police to arrive in time to do something about a situation, it's an emergency, but if there is, then it's not an emergency.
The wife and I were driving home one night after watching a hockey game at my dads and some guy in a minivan with his wife and at least 4 kids in back was swerving all over 52nd St, looking very drunk. We called 911 to report the guy and my wife was told in no uncertain terms that 911 was for emergencies only and she should have called the regular police number to report this. So what, it's not an emergency until this guy plows into another car?
So we called that number and after trying to navigate the ######ed automated menus and what not, we finally had to take our exit onto Glenmore and lost the guy so we just gave up. I've had that happen before with that ridiculous number. Calling to report kids spray painting grafitti on a school in our neighbourhood one night, and some kids another time who kept putting friggin' trash cans in the middle of the lanes at the top of the hill in Queensland hoping cars would drive into them.
Every time I just give up because never have I been able to actually report anything. Just sit on hold forever until it's obviously too late to catch and do anything about whatever situation.