Police in Leeds, Ontario, Canada are reminding the public yet again that 911 must only be reserved for emergencies after a woman called the help line over the weekend about her losing money from gambling at a casino.
Leeds provincial police and the Thousand Islands Township say that they received a call at about 5 a.m. on April 7, Saturday, from a woman who had been gambling at the Shoreline Casi[...] Read more » Woman calls 911 after losing money from gambling at casino
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these cases must be taken seriously because are people with the same kind of medical problems. Some suffer from psychological, anxious or behavioral disorders. The police should consider these issues and to proceed normally. Unfortunately, some abuse and people suffer because of them. There are also false calls that are not good at all.
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Yes some stupid reasons to call police, I think this is bad thing people are doing and there must be some money to pay from person who calls pokice for stupid reason because they spend time to analyze situation and not soend time on serous crimes
when I lost $ 500 in PartiPoker for half a day I was also ready to call 911 ... in Russia 112 .... it's certainly a lot of stress when you lose a lot of money and you realize that they can not be returned ... but you could not just play but simply pick up the winnings .... so I understand it ... sad event
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and an unusual connection because it was sensible for the woman to call to cancel the request because she should not do it since she could be barring a real emergency call, however I think it's very funny that everything would not do such a thing ehhhhh
Next time she should just call an Uber. Since it is purely cashless transaction if she does not have money on her decbit/credit card left the driver only going to know it after bringing her home. So either way she will have a ride.
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well what to say about this news and this girl!she lose all money and call emergency to give her 20 $ that she can back home!my God!but probably this things are normal to happen in america and canada!I can understand that everything is possible!
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That was a nice and funny list And i bet there is one such list in every country. They must be hearing lots of non sense all the ones working in the call centres and not only. But then again in USA it says to serve and protect, so she needed a lift home
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I do like to read these sorts of crazy stories and it never fails to amaze me what people do. I do feel sorry for her for losing all her money but that is the chance you take
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ok so let me get this straight- gal calls the police after losing all cash at the casino to give her a ride home? seriously? then she changes her mind because someone gave her 20 bucks for a quick oral since police took too long to arrive... nice, real nice...
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Ha ha pochui you are a funny person 20 follars for a quick oral but I still think this is situation where this girl must respond for such silly action from her, because pokice has n o time for going to such situations or even to respond and talk about it, there are more important crimes
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Posted by pochui: ok so let me get this straight- gal calls the police after losing all cash at the casino to give her a ride home? seriously? then she changes her mind because someone gave her 20 bucks for a quick oral since police took too long to arrive... nice, real nice...
it would be better for her to do that and to earn 20 $ on that way,then to get penalty now from police,because of this stupid call!but she is young,only 21 years and maybe she will learn her lesson after this!who know...
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Posted by Gerimantas: Ha ha pochui you are a funny person 20 follars for a quick oral but I still think this is situation where this girl must respond for such silly action from her, because pokice has n o time for going to such situations or even to respond and talk about it, there are more important crimes
I think it's just about a woman with anxiety or mental health problems.
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People make an emergency call for ridiculous reasons. Abuse of emergency line leads to a waste of precious time and limited resources. People should call emergency number only in situations requiring immediate attention.
Unbelievable those reasons why they called the emergencies, how the hell can someone call to ask for what time is it. Unless it was a prank call or someone drunk?
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and f**k after having lost everything he was desperate and no idea what to do to go away this happens a lot with peoplea addicted to gambling and without control I've worked in bingo and I've seen a lot of it happen
but I still think this is situation where this girl must respond for such silly action from her, because pokice has n o time for going to such situations or even to respond and talk about it, there are more important crimes
