In-breeding is alive & well here on the VA/NC border. Here’s a great example. I’m in line for a public restroom. I’m next. A lady (and I use that term loosely) comes out, looks at me, and says “I just lost 3 pounds!” I waited for the next stall to come open. So did the lady behind me. True story! You can’t make that stuff up!
Don’t! Fat Elvis already admitted to the thing with the sex toys, the transvestite is getting charged for the duffel bag of pills, and the midget go-go dancer has been incarcerated for kidnapping those poor sheep. If you say anything now, it’ll incriminate both of us for taking video, and I’ve already changed my name and dyed my hair and everything. Don’t get a conscience now.
There have been a few of these lately. I don’t think these people need to be fined as much as they need to be educated. A LOT. ‘Cause obviously something is going horribly wrong in our society if people think this is acceptable.
And not just “lately” either – my son bought two of the “What’s the Number for 911″ books, which list funny, bizarre, or downright unbelievable calls to 911 over the years. Old ladies calling in for turkey-cooking tips*, men needing to know what time the game starts, kids complaining that their younger sibling won’t let them watch cartoons…
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My personal favorite is the lady who had a small fire at her house, firemen came to put it out, the lady thought one of the firefighters was cute, so she called 911 and asked the operator to call back just that one fireman and give him her number because she’d like to go out with him.
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People crazy.
Lots of people can’t cook. I can think of several people over 25 that couldn’t cook a turkey if their lives depended on it. I was about 30 the first time I roasted a turkey.
Wow.
For anyone who doesn’t know already, here’s how to cook a turkey:
Turn on oven; not too high.
Put turkey in.
Wait.
Wait some more.
Not too long.
Take turkey out.
Eat.
.
Do that with one or two small ones so you get the hang of it, then start playing around with stuffings and glazes and whatnot.
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I mean, I guess I’m presupposing that a person would know how to tell cooked from undercooked meat, and a basic sense of logic (a 20-lb turkey is not going to cook in 15 minutes), but turkey is one of those things that I just can’t imagine how anyone could ever have trouble with it or screw it up*. Turkey’s my favorite “lazy cooking” – for 10-15 minutes of prepwork, which includes remembering where the big pan is, and a half hour of cleanup when it’s time to debone, you get a week and a half worth of food.
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*You do know that, now that I’ve said that, the next turkey I make is just going to explode five minutes after I put it in the oven… heh.
I didn’t say any of those people were HERE!
I get what you mean though. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that while cooking is merely reading instructions and following them, so many people can’t cook.
My favorite turkey recipe involves the usual prep for the turkey (season inside & out, bastel, etc.), then adding a cup of unpopped corn to the cavity. Place turkey in roasting pan with drumsticks facing out. When the turkey blows the oven door across the room, it’s done.
Hey, you never know. I didn’t make a chicken on my own until I was 17, and that’s just taking out the guts and sticking it the pan, putting it in the oven, and letting it cook. But I was very nervous that I would screw it up somehow.
And turkey is so not lazy cooking for me. There’s the brine, then the butter rub, then the herbs. And all the stuff that goes inside (not stuffing, onions and stuff like that), then there’s the gravy. By the time I’m done with a turkey I have used every pan and utensil in the kitchen (it seems like). And it takes two days, with the brining.
The herbs go ON the turkey!
I gave up smoking those kind YEARS ago. Besides, wouldn’t you end up falling asleep in your plate if you mixed that with turkey?
If I’m cooking for Thanksgiving or something like that, where the turkey will be a sort of “centerpiece” item, then yeah, it’s an all-day, two- or three-day affrair. But if I just want to get some meat for soups, sandwiches, casseroles, I skip all the fancy stuff and just stick it in the oven without a second thought.
And damn you, you had to go and mention gravy…. now my stomach’s growling! (c:
Some raw brutes like us in a country you do not
know where it is located (not sure even we do) do not eat turkey. I eat
meat half raw if necessary. I have no idea how to cook a turkey, but every single one (except you) seem to have a tiny problem even if they are advanced
cooks. I can cook most if I have a recipe though, even turkey, but some can not even boil water. That IS sad. but true.
While I’m not a vegetarian, I refuse to cook meat in a solar oven. That said, the vegetarian dishes I’ve made with my solar oven have been nothing short of phenominal. I strongly recommend solar cooking, particularly in conjunction with vegetarian dishes.
My sister-in-law is a dispatcher, and I have heard some great stories.
My personal favorite was one where an old lady called because her dog
wouldn’t listen to her.
ROFLMAO!!! *THAT* is hilarious. Most of these, I can at least sort of follow the twisted thinking that would ultimately lead to the 911 call, but… your dog won’t listen to you???
.
“Okay, ma’am, we’ll be right over to SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD. Will that make you happy?!”
It’s a gay little story, ’bout a Pom named Fred
Cute little guy with a flooffy little head
Pup was a walkin’ with a sparkle in his eye
When his owner said, “Fred, now’s the day yer gonna die!”
I dig the accent, but good GOD what an idiot. This guy’s even worse than the McNuggets lady from a few days/weeks back – at least with her, (as I understand it) they’d already taken her money and wouldn’t give her a refund. Still not worth calling 911 about, but at least it’s actually, you know, someone doing something wrong.
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What did this guy think, he’d threaten to call 911 and the cashier would suddenly be all, “Oh gee whiz mister, PLEASE don’t call 911, I’ll give you the lemonade we keep in the back marked For Management Use Only!” or something?
Maybe this is the “where are they now?” version of a kid I used to know, who threatened to call Child Protective Services when his mom didn’t give him ice cream.
It’s really fun. The 911 operator actually talks to him like a little kid and explains that “customer service is not a reason to call 911, 911 is if you’re dieing!”
I used to work at a 911 comm center. Oh, the stories I could tell…I once had a lady call 911 to tell me that she was running late from work and wanted to know if I would call the school where her son was to tell him to ride the bus home since she wouldn’t be able to pick it up.
*
I had a man once call to tell me he spent all his gold dust on hookers.
*
We also had a “frequent flyer” who called 911 every weekend because her and her son would get drunk and fight with each other over the most ridiculous things. These included her calling because her son wouldn’t eat his chili, her son kicked the vacuum cleaner, her son kicked her out of HIS CAR and made her walk home, and (my personal favorite) her son assaulted her with a cheeseburger.
*sigh* I miss that job. I still work for a police department but we don’t take 911 calls.
Nah…I work for the Chickasaw Nation tribal police. They are a sovereign nation inside the United States, like most other Indian tribes, and mainly deal with issues that occur on tribal lands and the casinos that the tribe own.
Of course, anyone can still call us…and the “frequent flyer” I mentioned up there has our number on speed dial. Fortunately, because they are a sovereign nation, we can politely tell her to shove off and if she has an emergency to call 911…which she does…and is then fined (again) for mis-use of 911.
Sweet justice.
My son was visiting my mom’s house over the weekend; she brought him home yesterday (spring break so no school). While my mom and I were chatting, he went into the kitchen and came back out with an empty M&M bag. He held it up and gave me a baleful glare.
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I brought my hands to my face and said sarcastically, “OH NO! Someone’s broken into the house and eaten all the M&Ms! Quick, call the police!”
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He started laughing, and I thought, “It wasn’t that funny,” until I turned to see that my mother indeed had her cell phone out and was looking a bit baffled. She had dialed the 9 and the first 1 before it occurred to her that something wasn’t quite right…
LOL
She used to cook quite well, but lately…
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Actually, now that I think of it, I wonder if maybe that explains the little old ladies calling 911 for turkey help – not general cluelessness so much as senile dementia. First you forget what to set the oven at, then you forget what 911 is for…
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And do NOT let me get started on “my-momma” stories. Trying to answer the remote control and trying to change channels with the cordless phone are only the beginning. And yes, in fact she DID ask if we’d made sure the DVDs were rewound before we took them back to the rental place. I think of it all as material – I grit my teeth and think, “As soon as I get back to my house, I am TOTALLY blogging this.”
WOW, that is hillarious! I have to say, though, I really do hate the new video format with the intro. and the ‘3,2,1′ every time…..Anyone else have an opinion on that?
Once, when my mother was in the nursing home, she had a fall. She wasn’t hurt, just could not get back up by herself. She called and called for help, but no one came. Then she grabbed the phone cord, pulled the phone to the floor and dialed 911. Boy, did the staff get embarrassed when the e-car showed up! They paid more attention to their patients after that.
There’s plenty of time for playing solitaire when you’re heating the fries up – especially when you’re doing it on a snowy evening, on your engine block.
I think that’s the “serve” part of “protect and serve”.
You don’t live in OK, do you? I had someone call once because they were in a McDonald’s drive through, were acting drunk and were pulled over as soon as they left the drive through (2 of 4 people in the car were arrested), and then called the police department to complain on the officers who pulled them over because their food was cold.
I remember reading about that online. The guy was saying “You’re the police! You’re supposed to protect us!” cuz he felt he got screwed on his order. Now that I’ve heard the clip, his accent tells me the guy hasn’t lived in these parts long enough to know that ‘law enforcement’ isn’t for enforcing on every little thing that gets under his skin. -_-’
What is this? I leave for a week and suddenly Fail videos have a snazzy new intro? Though I’m not sold on the punchline intro… it works where something extra funny happens at the end, but not when it’s a repeat of what’s already happened. (And yes, I read the other threads, guys.)
actually, the intro is on all the fail videos on youtube but the ones we see on ichc are not the full-length ones, they are just parts of it. i liked the introduction.
We just got 311 in our city. One alderman said that if even 20% of the crank calls that used to go to 911 end up at 311, the new number would save the city money.
911 used to get over 300 crank calls a day, including requests for beer delivery, UFO sightings, reports of wildlife, consumer complaints, and the like. But if 911 is called someone has to be sent out no matter what: it’s the law. 911 operators also have to be paramedics or nurses and they are paid accordingly, and the more crank calls the more operators they need to handle the call volume. Anyone can staff 311.
Only now are they beginning to charge people who abuse 911, and even then they’re just going after the worst offenders. One guy called 911 over a hundred times in one year.
Sooo…. how does this work? Because too many idiots call 911, your city (NYC?) set up a separate idiot line? I’m seriously confused!
I guess that’s a phone system Evolver (ugh!)
RE: “911 operators also have to be paramedics or nurses and they are paid accordingly”
It varies by state. Here in OK (and most other states), pretty much anyone can be a 911 operator. There is no certification for it. The only training you absolutely HAVE to have is to operate the NCIC computer where you can look up driver’s license info, tag info, etc etc etc. Being a medical dispatcher is optional. I’ve had the training and it was a sham. Basically, all they tell you to do is to follow a set of flipcards that they thoughtfully sell for $800 or so. And there was no difference in my pay.
Scary, ain’t it?
I heard of a similar case involving a women at Burger King. She ordered, I think, a chicken sandwich, paid for it, and found out that they didn’t have chcken. So she called 911……..
Excuse me but why did you guys decide to put up the counter thing and the intro? It’s rather useless IMO and does not stand up for the good standard of short-fail-videos.
Please don’t start putting your logo on your videos, FailBlog. It’s annoying, redundant and wastes 6 seconds per video, making users have to move the video position forward, but then they end up going too far forward, so they have to then go back to the beginnng and have to watch the entire logo sequence again, using up more than 6 seconds. If you must, put a static 1-second logo on the screen: it serves the same purpose as an animated logo lasting 6 seconds, but is more user-friendly and your users will be greatful for it. Or, even better, put your logo at the end of the video.
There was that case at McD’s once where a lady ordered some Nuggets, and after she’d paid they told her they didn’t have any. Which I get, I’ve done that a couple of times by accident. But the kicker was, they wouldn’t give her her money back O_o They tried to get her to take something else for the same price. Wtf? If I ever sell a customer something we’ve ran out of, I give them their money back *and* offer them something extra, like a free ice cream or soda or whatever. Now, I don’t know if we just do things differently here in Finland, but I can’t for the life of me understand why they couldn’t just give her a refund.
Unbelievable.
So yeah, she called 911. Which, overreaction, but not quite as strong a fail as this case.
i read somewhere that many immigrants who come to the U.S. have not used an emergency number before…they don’t have it in their home countries. so they are confused about its purpose and use it for things they probably shouldn’t…family disputes over money…lemonade…etc.
Here I am anticipating something badass spoken by the 911 operator, and get the real ending, which is just a typical ending to a case like this. What a dumb video. There are no surprises, failblog fail.
what a stupid guy u call 9-1-1 because they don’t have lemonade what a stupid guy i bet the guy went 2 jail 4 miss using 9-1-1 what was he thinking get a different drink there is coke diet coke sprite dr.pepper and many more
If people would just stop marrying their cousins & having babies with them…
In-breeding for the win?
In-breeding for 1000, Alex!
In-breeding is alive & well here on the VA/NC border. Here’s a great example. I’m in line for a public restroom. I’m next. A lady (and I use that term loosely) comes out, looks at me, and says “I just lost 3 pounds!” I waited for the next stall to come open. So did the lady behind me. True story! You can’t make that stuff up!
Don’t tell me, it was the fat munter in the WTF extra sledding clip!
Oh, god. I can’t say enough bad about this. I’m so sorry you have to live with that.
She probably had 6 toes.
In total or on one foot?
Or – perchance – in a jar?
A pickle surprise jar?
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
clickie for a surprise.
I’m surprised, that clickie isn’t allowed in my country
The surprise was Christopher Walken dancing. Try doing a search through youtube to find it.
He sounded like he was from the middle east. His language was very broken. Maybe like middle east Alabama, or Kentucky?
eeee! *faints all fangirl style* Christopher walken in all his creepy, week-long sentence awesomeness!!!!!
*thinks mr. mcswearypants needs a time out*
Pitiful indeed!
had 2 be in fl -_-
Lemonade is mah brain juice!
That would be a blow to stand-up comedians everywhere.
I didn’t think stand-up comedians got blown that often…maybe they’d appreciate it?
But then they’d have fewer ideas to use for stand-up.
Now where does this comment go?
Insert Here
Wait!! – Wait!! – You have to fold, spindle, and mutilate it first!!
*Folds, spindles, and mutilates comment*
*Inserts comment delicately so as not to disrupt the flow of commenting*
Wat? I don ge tit
Wow nice job, you just totally messed up the flow.
But better reasons to stand up.
Hmmm.
Standing up, you say?
Nah, when I found that comment it was way at the bottom of the page. My “Hmmm” was just me wondering where it belonged.
It belongs up your butt and around the corner.
No inbreeding…just a member of the Haitian Nation…
haha i live right down the street from that burgerking….i remember that shit on the news haha
Bro that’s my friends mom reporting haha
Hey, you gotta have lemonade!
If life don’t give you lemonade, make lemons.
What a sourpuss!
Pretty acidic comment there, Mookie
Are you calling me a tart?
Nah – was just a bit concerned about your hovercraft
Well here’s another thread with some fizz in it.
This thread just went all fruity.
*squeezes The Moomin, makes Moominade*
*saves some for my sugar*
*feels drained*
*Squeezes onto the admiral tightly for support*
*gives The Moomin a zest for life*
*looks stern*
Are you taking the pith?
Oh, no! I find you too appealing!
Juice making sure.
As long as you don’t rind.
Or exseed the Admirals expectations…
You’re beating this thread to a pulp.
you’re such a marmalady
Citrus in: Man can’t live without lemonade. More on the citrus-o’clock news.
Sounds like what my gf does when I “drain” her of juices, or more like when she floods me… O.o
The police are also a customer service hotline, didn’t you know?
I always call them for solitaire tips.
Win.
Subliminal message fail.
*kills random people*
*wakes up from trance*
Whu?
Somehow I am featured in this vid (frames 1304-1313)
*revives random people*
*wakes up in France*
It’s a beautiful thang.
I saw it! (see post below) I went back and paused so I could read it.
*CONGRATULATORY SQUEEZE*
On the 44th second! Well done Aja!
Hahahahahahaha. That’s brilliant!
Woohoo. Now let’s hear what this fail is all about.
Meh.
Hey Aja, you’re also presenting the audition fail in the voting section! And Dragonwriter presents parking fail (all on page 1).
Very cool.
*SQUEEZES ALL AROUND!*
Not that I just wasted my time doing research… DrB presents “soccer” fan fail, currently page 9 in the voting section.
Should you start worrying?
Nah, just stop worrying. And love the bomb.
I worry those were my 0.5 seconds of fame.
That’s a Strange Glove you’ve got there, Hammykins.
Lemonade is NOT Precious Bodily Fluids.
As far as I know anyway.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE?!
What do you *BUY COCA COLA NOW* mean?
Wow, for compleatly unexplainable reasons I really want a coke now.
Why do I all of a sudden want to admit my guilt in court?
Don’t! Fat Elvis already admitted to the thing with the sex toys, the transvestite is getting charged for the duffel bag of pills, and the midget go-go dancer has been incarcerated for kidnapping those poor sheep. If you say anything now, it’ll incriminate both of us for taking video, and I’ve already changed my name and dyed my hair and everything. Don’t get a conscience now.
Why do I all of a sudden not want to spurn your advice?
D’OH! I meant to say “scorn your advice”.
not so subliminal fail
Joseph Fritzl? Is that you?
Already done it
*nom nom* Christmas on the coke side of life ans the ad says :-’D *sniff sniff*
There have been a few of these lately. I don’t think these people need to be fined as much as they need to be educated. A LOT. ‘Cause obviously something is going horribly wrong in our society if people think this is acceptable.
I know, the lack of lemonade is just appalling. We should put funds into getting every man, woman, and child a juicer.
And bail out the Juice Industry!!
I wager that the judge will find the lemon filing is a just a peel.
Not if he concentrates.
Juice said it!
Perhaps we need to revise the ESL curriculum.
Maybe add a unit covering the BK Lounge menu!
And not just “lately” either – my son bought two of the “What’s the Number for 911″ books, which list funny, bizarre, or downright unbelievable calls to 911 over the years. Old ladies calling in for turkey-cooking tips*, men needing to know what time the game starts, kids complaining that their younger sibling won’t let them watch cartoons…
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My personal favorite is the lady who had a small fire at her house, firemen came to put it out, the lady thought one of the firefighters was cute, so she called 911 and asked the operator to call back just that one fireman and give him her number because she’d like to go out with him.
.
People crazy.
Forgot my *: I can’t imagine how you get to be past, say, 25 without learning how to cook a turkey.
Lots of people can’t cook. I can think of several people over 25 that couldn’t cook a turkey if their lives depended on it. I was about 30 the first time I roasted a turkey.
Wow.
For anyone who doesn’t know already, here’s how to cook a turkey:
Turn on oven; not too high.
Put turkey in.
Wait.
Wait some more.
Not too long.
Take turkey out.
Eat.
.
Do that with one or two small ones so you get the hang of it, then start playing around with stuffings and glazes and whatnot.
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I mean, I guess I’m presupposing that a person would know how to tell cooked from undercooked meat, and a basic sense of logic (a 20-lb turkey is not going to cook in 15 minutes), but turkey is one of those things that I just can’t imagine how anyone could ever have trouble with it or screw it up*. Turkey’s my favorite “lazy cooking” – for 10-15 minutes of prepwork, which includes remembering where the big pan is, and a half hour of cleanup when it’s time to debone, you get a week and a half worth of food.
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*You do know that, now that I’ve said that, the next turkey I make is just going to explode five minutes after I put it in the oven… heh.
I didn’t say any of those people were HERE!
I get what you mean though. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that while cooking is merely reading instructions and following them, so many people can’t cook.
I’d advise a beginner to start with a chicken. Much nicer to eat anyway.
Chicken!
Moomin!
*Munch!*
Mmm, tastes like… chiken. And lemonade.
Moomin!
*Munch!*
Mmm, tastes like… chicken. And lemonade.
DuRêve: Serves 2.
Can’t help it! He looks as if he was made of marshmallow!
Marshmallow Moomin? I wonder if they sell those for Easter.
*holds a shiny object in front of the Moomin*
When I count to three you won’t notice my previous duplicate comment.
*SQUEEZE*
1, 2, 3…
Hey!
Does this mean I’m dead yet again?
*sulks in his coffin*
I agree, chickens are easier, and cheaper.
Quail are smaller, and stranger.
My favorite turkey recipe involves the usual prep for the turkey (season inside & out, bastel, etc.), then adding a cup of unpopped corn to the cavity. Place turkey in roasting pan with drumsticks facing out. When the turkey blows the oven door across the room, it’s done.
That made me giggle!
LOLz – me too!!!
hey, don’t talk about me that way! Oh…chickens…yeah
Take it easy, it was not a cheap shot.
Or even a cheep shot.
…or was it?
not another peep corn joke!
Comments wont come home to roast below this level.
Whirlwinds won’t be reaped below this level.
Or even a peep show.
Nekkid chicks.
It’s not necessary to have a bird over this.
Or duck!!!!
*ducks*
*Is closely following videogamer*
*Does not duck*
*Hits branch*
Did I hear ‘videogamer+duck’? DUCK HUNT FTW!!!!!!
*Dog laughs and points at adjective for hitting branch*
Not fair, that branch came out of nowhere.
Hey, you never know. I didn’t make a chicken on my own until I was 17, and that’s just taking out the guts and sticking it the pan, putting it in the oven, and letting it cook. But I was very nervous that I would screw it up somehow.
And turkey is so not lazy cooking for me. There’s the brine, then the butter rub, then the herbs. And all the stuff that goes inside (not stuffing, onions and stuff like that), then there’s the gravy. By the time I’m done with a turkey I have used every pan and utensil in the kitchen (it seems like). And it takes two days, with the brining.
I always thought that you should smoke the herbs before eating the turkey?
The herbs go ON the turkey!
I gave up smoking those kind YEARS ago. Besides, wouldn’t you end up falling asleep in your plate if you mixed that with turkey?
That, or it would just make you hungry for more turkey.
If I’m cooking for Thanksgiving or something like that, where the turkey will be a sort of “centerpiece” item, then yeah, it’s an all-day, two- or three-day affrair. But if I just want to get some meat for soups, sandwiches, casseroles, I skip all the fancy stuff and just stick it in the oven without a second thought.
And damn you, you had to go and mention gravy…. now my stomach’s growling! (c:
I’m fond of pizza.
I like pizza as a friend.
I just posted my recipe at my blog, clickie if you want.
Wow if that how you cook a turkey, I like to see how you have sex. I bet it’s a week long ordeal.
Clickie for the whole recipe!
It can be … exhausting.
Nuthin’ wrong with week-long sex
…hours later…
Ahh, good to see that nobody disagrees with that sentiment!
Aside from the chafing, why would we?
Chafing?
*eyes widen in horror*
shhhhhhhhhhhhh Avis – we’re getting him all worried again….
Ahem. BF? It’s gonna be fine, just fine…
Just think how twisted poor BFF is gonna be when he really starts dating! If he keeps coming here that is.
LOL! Literally
I speck he’s gonna be fine!
I speck so.
I’m dot so sure.
He’d better date someone with a fantastic sense of humo(u)r then!
Just wait, you’ll get the point.
Better punctate than never.
OMG, awarenessFAIL!!!
Some raw brutes like us in a country you do not
know where it is located (not sure even we do) do not eat turkey. I eat
meat half raw if necessary. I have no idea how to cook a turkey, but every single one (except you) seem to have a tiny problem even if they are advanced
cooks. I can cook most if I have a recipe though, even turkey, but some can not even boil water. That IS sad. but true.
I’m vegetarian. . .
SOLAR COOKING FOR THE WIN!
While I’m not a vegetarian, I refuse to cook meat in a solar oven. That said, the vegetarian dishes I’ve made with my solar oven have been nothing short of phenominal. I strongly recommend solar cooking, particularly in conjunction with vegetarian dishes.
You can share my tofurkey.
I’m vagitarian.
My sister-in-law is a dispatcher, and I have heard some great stories.
My personal favorite was one where an old lady called because her dog
wouldn’t listen to her.
ROFLMAO!!! *THAT* is hilarious. Most of these, I can at least sort of follow the twisted thinking that would ultimately lead to the 911 call, but… your dog won’t listen to you???
.
“Okay, ma’am, we’ll be right over to SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD. Will that make you happy?!”
hehehhe It will NEVER disobey you again!!!!
As long as your command is “lie there and rot!”
kinda reminds me of the story about the redneck who shot his dog because he thought it was gay.
I don’t think I’ve heard that one… is it more on the horrible side or the funny side?
It’s a gay little story, ’bout a Pom named Fred
Cute little guy with a flooffy little head
Pup was a walkin’ with a sparkle in his eye
When his owner said, “Fred, now’s the day yer gonna die!”
Nellie Wins. You can start a new thread now, because nothing here is going to beat that.
I love WN.
you made me LOL.
Mostly I want to say that is UNBELIEVABLE… but at the same time I know it’s not
I dig the accent, but good GOD what an idiot. This guy’s even worse than the McNuggets lady from a few days/weeks back – at least with her, (as I understand it) they’d already taken her money and wouldn’t give her a refund. Still not worth calling 911 about, but at least it’s actually, you know, someone doing something wrong.
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What did this guy think, he’d threaten to call 911 and the cashier would suddenly be all, “Oh gee whiz mister, PLEASE don’t call 911, I’ll give you the lemonade we keep in the back marked For Management Use Only!” or something?
Maybe this is the “where are they now?” version of a kid I used to know, who threatened to call Child Protective Services when his mom didn’t give him ice cream.
Dude, today’s fail was brought to us by Aja!
That’s totally freaking awesome.
WTF?
I know, right? Here, have a giant chocolate chip + M&M cookie for being so awesome.
I just ate, but thanks.
I’ll save it for later.
WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hehe! That was awesome!
Wow! That’s great.
Congrats, Aja!
Who’s Fortune, anyway?
last name’s 500
Mother’s name is Wheel Of
Shit?
I saw that a couple years ago. I havent even rewatched it..but I remember…
I want my dolla or my TACO
Is the “dolla or my TACO” in reference to another unnecessary 911 call, or just… randomness..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of56cRw2m28
I was thinking it was this. He holdin my dolla and my 10 cent
He was later aquitted of all charges after police found traces of “dna” in his “lemonade”.
MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN I’M CALLING 911
IT REALLY IS
Wow that was funny. Oh no wait, what am I saying, no it wasn’t.
OF COURSE IT’S NOT FUNNY
WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN LAUGHING IF YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON WAS BROKEN, TOO?
If so he would laugh very loud.
lol…LOL!!
You wouldn’t be laughing if you were up on that wall.
Anpu disapproves of the lemonade guy’s existance.
You can listen to the whole conversation here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0209092burgerking1.html
It’s really fun. The 911 operator actually talks to him like a little kid and explains that “customer service is not a reason to call 911, 911 is if you’re dieing!”
I used to work at a 911 comm center. Oh, the stories I could tell…I once had a lady call 911 to tell me that she was running late from work and wanted to know if I would call the school where her son was to tell him to ride the bus home since she wouldn’t be able to pick it up.
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I had a man once call to tell me he spent all his gold dust on hookers.
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We also had a “frequent flyer” who called 911 every weekend because her and her son would get drunk and fight with each other over the most ridiculous things. These included her calling because her son wouldn’t eat his chili, her son kicked the vacuum cleaner, her son kicked her out of HIS CAR and made her walk home, and (my personal favorite) her son assaulted her with a cheeseburger.
*sigh* I miss that job. I still work for a police department but we don’t take 911 calls.
Wow! I didn’t know the PD could opt out of that service! Did you have to get on that “Do Not Call” list?
Nah…I work for the Chickasaw Nation tribal police. They are a sovereign nation inside the United States, like most other Indian tribes, and mainly deal with issues that occur on tribal lands and the casinos that the tribe own.
Of course, anyone can still call us…and the “frequent flyer” I mentioned up there has our number on speed dial. Fortunately, because they are a sovereign nation, we can politely tell her to shove off and if she has an emergency to call 911…which she does…and is then fined (again) for mis-use of 911.
Sweet justice.
Chickasaw Nation – “Unconquered and Unconquerable”.
I better stop picking on you.
My son was visiting my mom’s house over the weekend; she brought him home yesterday (spring break so no school). While my mom and I were chatting, he went into the kitchen and came back out with an empty M&M bag. He held it up and gave me a baleful glare.
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I brought my hands to my face and said sarcastically, “OH NO! Someone’s broken into the house and eaten all the M&Ms! Quick, call the police!”
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He started laughing, and I thought, “It wasn’t that funny,” until I turned to see that my mother indeed had her cell phone out and was looking a bit baffled. She had dialed the 9 and the first 1 before it occurred to her that something wasn’t quite right…
And you expect me to believe that she can cook a turkey???
LOL!
LOL
She used to cook quite well, but lately…
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Actually, now that I think of it, I wonder if maybe that explains the little old ladies calling 911 for turkey help – not general cluelessness so much as senile dementia. First you forget what to set the oven at, then you forget what 911 is for…
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And do NOT let me get started on “my-momma” stories. Trying to answer the remote control and trying to change channels with the cordless phone are only the beginning. And yes, in fact she DID ask if we’d made sure the DVDs were rewound before we took them back to the rental place. I think of it all as material – I grit my teeth and think, “As soon as I get back to my house, I am TOTALLY blogging this.”
When life takes your M&M’s, order lemonade…right?
When life gives you S&M, enjoy it …right?
Somebody say “lemonade body shots”???
Ohohoh! I did! I did!
AND S&M? This really is my kind of place!
WOW, that is hillarious! I have to say, though, I really do hate the new video format with the intro. and the ‘3,2,1′ every time…..Anyone else have an opinion on that?
Yeah, its really annoying. It’s like having some loser sitting next to you at a movie saying, “watch now, here comes the good bit”. It’s really lame.
exactly
I do. But I won’t tell.
lolz, will you whisper it in my ear?
(pssst … i don’t think he heard you, ask again!)
please see below…
(pssst … I don’t think you got my joke, I failed again!)
lol, no, i got it, i just thought it was funny to say what i said, so in the end…..i failed *hand me the bukkit*
will you whisper it in my ear?
damn double post failblog fail!
I guess I’m sappy, because I liked the introduction of the “in 3,2,1″ meme and “today’s fail powered by” bits. The intro didn’t bother me.
eh, i could live with the intor, but the 3,2,1 drives me insane
People need to stop with the stupid countdowns and “let’s see that again”.
It distracts from the funny. (If we really wanted to see it again, we could always just play the video over. It also increases the filesize.
I’d like to see “Lance Quagmire approves of this format” added to the beginning and end of every FAIvideo.
But that’s just me.
Shall we vote?
you can’t call for a motion when there is already a motion on the floor. see below
Lance Quagmire approves of this rebuttal.
Once buba called 911 because there was a snail crossing his way, and he did not know how to pass. But buba did not get much help
wtf? lulz.
This is why the supervisor at the Home for Mental Defectives is supposed to take away the residents’ cell phones.
Once, when my mother was in the nursing home, she had a fall. She wasn’t hurt, just could not get back up by herself. She called and called for help, but no one came. Then she grabbed the phone cord, pulled the phone to the floor and dialed 911. Boy, did the staff get embarrassed when the e-car showed up! They paid more attention to their patients after that.
Great story! Your mom’s name isn’t Mrs. Fletcher is it?
(clickie for the reference)
No, Horton, that wasn’t her!
I hate the new 3-2-1 countdown thing they put in every video!! Failbog, stop putting those redundant things already! It spoils the humor
I second that! (see comment above).
Does Horton hear a third in… 3… 2… ?
actually, i make a movement to get rid of the 3,2,1. The motion is on the floor..
this “countdown” thing is so lame. PLZ STP
My pants are also on the floor.
Does horton hear a who?
I concur with the 3 2 1 thing
I’m pretty sure he does.
hmmm…i wonder if anyone already started a thread about that
The real fail is the editor in chief for letting journalists and news ankers show the world such crap on tv.
News ankers? Are they anything like News anchors?
No, fuzzz is actually talking about News Ankhers. They’re really into Egypt and life.
*cue 6:00 o’clock news music*
And tonight, broadcasting directly from the Great Pyramid…
Our top story tonight: The shocking murder of Osiris by his own kin, right after these messages.
Call 555-MUMMY for your embalming needs.
King Tut’s Pizzeria! Where our slogan is, “Sure, he’s young but child labor laws aren’t invented yet!”
King Tut’s Pizzeria! 555-CLBR! Where our motto is, “So he’s young. So what? Child labor laws are’t invented yet!”
Update: Investigators have found all but one of the dismembered body parts. Details at 10!
I lol’d.
Seems these murders were sick, apparently they put all his organs in jars, mocking his corpse which lie nearby.
When life gives you lemons, say F**k the lemons and bail. OR call 911 because you want lemonade.
This guy has a similar voice to Little Jacob from GTA4
Wow that was an intelligent comment.
No, that is what we call: Truth. Look it up.
There was actually someone in my hometown who called 911 because her fries were cold.
OMFG!!!!!!! lol
And people wonder why police response time is so slow.
Because they’re too busy heating people’s fries? They should have some sort of priority system.
Or playing solitaire?
There’s plenty of time for playing solitaire when you’re heating the fries up – especially when you’re doing it on a snowy evening, on your engine block.
I think that’s the “serve” part of “protect and serve”.
That was me. They WERE cold! I’ve sued them for $5 million! Too bad because $$ is worthless right now:/
Did they call a coroner?
You don’t live in OK, do you? I had someone call once because they were in a McDonald’s drive through, were acting drunk and were pulled over as soon as they left the drive through (2 of 4 people in the car were arrested), and then called the police department to complain on the officers who pulled them over because their food was cold.
good video, but i’m really getting annoyed at the new video format. quit with the intro wintro and outros!
I remember reading about that online. The guy was saying “You’re the police! You’re supposed to protect us!” cuz he felt he got screwed on his order. Now that I’ve heard the clip, his accent tells me the guy hasn’t lived in these parts long enough to know that ‘law enforcement’ isn’t for enforcing on every little thing that gets under his skin. -_-’
what a ltdtfh
what a WhoaNellie
This sux…
Do you know what else “sux”?
I’ll leave it there, lest I get kicked out of the Failblog community.
you can get kicked out!?
Well, you can be branded a troll. That’s the equivalent of being kicked out.
People have, in the past, been banned. There is precedent.
Fail!
On Failblog? Next you’ll be telling me the pope’s catholic!
I am Aja and I endorse this message.
I would say win, not fail.
anyone notice Fortune=4chan
Didn’t this just happen with a woman and chicken nuggets at McDonalds? People are so damn stupid.
What the hell you don’t call 911 for lemonade. -_-
I know, seriously! I mean if it was Dr. Pepper or Cheery Coke or something, I could see…but lemonade!?
Cherrrrrrrrrrry
It’s frrrrrrruity!
What is this? I leave for a week and suddenly Fail videos have a snazzy new intro? Though I’m not sold on the punchline intro… it works where something extra funny happens at the end, but not when it’s a repeat of what’s already happened. (And yes, I read the other threads, guys.)
actually, the intro is on all the fail videos on youtube but the ones we see on ichc are not the full-length ones, they are just parts of it. i liked the introduction.
We just got 311 in our city. One alderman said that if even 20% of the crank calls that used to go to 911 end up at 311, the new number would save the city money.
911 used to get over 300 crank calls a day, including requests for beer delivery, UFO sightings, reports of wildlife, consumer complaints, and the like. But if 911 is called someone has to be sent out no matter what: it’s the law. 911 operators also have to be paramedics or nurses and they are paid accordingly, and the more crank calls the more operators they need to handle the call volume. Anyone can staff 311.
Only now are they beginning to charge people who abuse 911, and even then they’re just going after the worst offenders. One guy called 911 over a hundred times in one year.
Sooo…. how does this work? Because too many idiots call 911, your city (NYC?) set up a separate idiot line? I’m seriously confused!
I guess that’s a phone system Evolver (ugh!)
RE: “911 operators also have to be paramedics or nurses and they are paid accordingly”
It varies by state. Here in OK (and most other states), pretty much anyone can be a 911 operator. There is no certification for it. The only training you absolutely HAVE to have is to operate the NCIC computer where you can look up driver’s license info, tag info, etc etc etc. Being a medical dispatcher is optional. I’ve had the training and it was a sham. Basically, all they tell you to do is to follow a set of flipcards that they thoughtfully sell for $800 or so. And there was no difference in my pay.
Scary, ain’t it?
I’ve heard that in OK, pretty much anyone can be anything, especially an elected official.
It really is frightening.
I heard of a similar case involving a women at Burger King. She ordered, I think, a chicken sandwich, paid for it, and found out that they didn’t have chcken. So she called 911……..
…then the man says, “that’s no turkey, that’s a lion!”
Why are these always in Florida?
Excuse me but why did you guys decide to put up the counter thing and the intro? It’s rather useless IMO and does not stand up for the good standard of short-fail-videos.
FAILBLOG FAIL!
you should start your own blog for the discriminating asshole on the go.
WTF man?? Its not like the cops there have anything better to do!
RT
http://www.online-privacy.pro.tc
What’s with the retarded “countdown to fail” bullshit? Ruins the video
“OFFICER! That man put ice in my soda! I told him NOT to put ice in because it would water it down! ARREST HIM!”
Ma beepoles need dar lamonides! He prolly dyin widdout dat lamonide dare!
Donut laugh caws it be de troots.
What the hell is this “3, 2 1″ bullshit. Stop doing that.
Agreed, stop with that stuff, let us just see the clip smoothly
I bet they didn’t have any freaking french fries either…..
this 1 is old already saw this one like 2 weeks ago on failblog
Please don’t start putting your logo on your videos, FailBlog. It’s annoying, redundant and wastes 6 seconds per video, making users have to move the video position forward, but then they end up going too far forward, so they have to then go back to the beginnng and have to watch the entire logo sequence again, using up more than 6 seconds. If you must, put a static 1-second logo on the screen: it serves the same purpose as an animated logo lasting 6 seconds, but is more user-friendly and your users will be greatful for it. Or, even better, put your logo at the end of the video.
There was that case at McD’s once where a lady ordered some Nuggets, and after she’d paid they told her they didn’t have any. Which I get, I’ve done that a couple of times by accident. But the kicker was, they wouldn’t give her her money back O_o They tried to get her to take something else for the same price. Wtf? If I ever sell a customer something we’ve ran out of, I give them their money back *and* offer them something extra, like a free ice cream or soda or whatever. Now, I don’t know if we just do things differently here in Finland, but I can’t for the life of me understand why they couldn’t just give her a refund.
Unbelievable.
So yeah, she called 911. Which, overreaction, but not quite as strong a fail as this case.
i read somewhere that many immigrants who come to the U.S. have not used an emergency number before…they don’t have it in their home countries. so they are confused about its purpose and use it for things they probably shouldn’t…family disputes over money…lemonade…etc.
Here I am anticipating something badass spoken by the 911 operator, and get the real ending, which is just a typical ending to a case like this. What a dumb video. There are no surprises, failblog fail.
I’d like to say “only in Florida,” but stupidity is a persistent foe.
Nonetheless, reason #2562 that I SO have to get out of this bloody state…
fail boat
*posts first comment on second page because glitch*
so what? i called 911 because someone misplaced my pringles
what a stupid guy u call 9-1-1 because they don’t have lemonade what a stupid guy i bet the guy went 2 jail 4 miss using 9-1-1 what was he thinking get a different drink there is coke diet coke sprite dr.pepper and many more
Meanwhile a man burns to death…
He died in court.
For those of you wondering what kind of accent this gentleman had…I can assure you its Haitian Creole. I hear it all the time in my workplace.
Jamaicans are awesome