[Wormius]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

I am aware, personally, of about 15 complaints to 911 for disturbed peace, sleep and/or tv programming. I am not aware of them all. Those are just the ones I dealt with personally, or overheard my co-workers dealing with. There were more.

While there is a charge for misuse of 911 (and it goes up to $10,000), none of the people who called to complain can really be charged with it. It's for chronic misuse over anything else. While the complaint calls were incredibly annoying (as it was already a SUPER busy night), there isn't a lot that can be done beyond hurry them up, get them off the emergency line, and hope that the next call is a real emergency or legit tip (of which, a goodly number came in, as well).

I wonder if after the operators asks, “what is the nature of he emergency?” It dawns on them that what they are calling about isn’t an emergency.