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Calling 911 Fail


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  1. velvet says:

    If people would just stop marrying their cousins & having babies with them…

  2. BondFan4518 says:

    Hey, you gotta have lemonade!

  3. Avis says:

    The police are also a customer service hotline, didn’t you know?

  4. Aja says:

    Subliminal message fail.

  5. scotteh says:

    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.

  6. e says:

    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.
    .
    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?

    • Horton says:

      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.

  7. dianatheinsane says:

    Dude, today’s fail was brought to us by Aja!
    That’s totally freaking awesome.

  8. MaxArt says:

    Who’s Fortune, anyway?

  9. BecCar says:

    I saw that a couple years ago. I havent even rewatched it..but I remember…

    I want my dolla or my TACO

  10. sofaking says:

    He was later aquitted of all charges after police found traces of “dna” in his “lemonade”.

  11. JasonK says:

    MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN I’M CALLING 911

    IT REALLY IS

  12. capt. awesome says:

    Anpu disapproves of the lemonade guy’s existance.

  13. Karla says:

    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!”

    • k-k-k-katy says:

      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.

      • My required name says:

        Wow! I didn’t know the PD could opt out of that service! Did you have to get on that “Do Not Call” list?

        • k-k-k-katy says:

          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.

  14. e says:

    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.
    .
    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!”
    .
    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…

    • sailingteddy says:

      And you expect me to believe that she can cook a turkey???

      • e says:

        LOL
        She used to cook quite well, but lately…
        .
        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…
        .
        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.”

    • Hell Hath No Fury says:

      When life takes your M&M’s, order lemonade…right?

  15. abstract says:

    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?

  16. buba says:

    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 :(

  17. This is why the supervisor at the Home for Mental Defectives is supposed to take away the residents’ cell phones.

    • Judy says:

      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.

  18. anon says:

    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

  19. fuzzz says:

    The real fail is the editor in chief for letting journalists and news ankers show the world such crap on tv.

  20. Emperor says:

    When life gives you lemons, say F**k the lemons and bail. OR call 911 because you want lemonade.

  21. Phaet says:

    This guy has a similar voice to Little Jacob from GTA4

  22. christopherborne says:

    There was actually someone in my hometown who called 911 because her fries were cold.

  23. dannnnnnnnnnnnnn says:

    good video, but i’m really getting annoyed at the new video format. quit with the intro wintro and outros!

  24. fpelayo says:

    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. -_-’

  25. WhoaNellie says:

    what a ltdtfh

  26. Rewster says:

    anyone notice Fortune=4chan

  27. Carrie says:

    Didn’t this just happen with a woman and chicken nuggets at McDonalds? People are so damn stupid.

  28. Devaith says:

    What the hell you don’t call 911 for lemonade. -_-

  29. 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.)

  30. i hate everything says:

    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.

  31. Blurgle says:

    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.

    • My required name says:

      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!)

    • k-k-k-katy says:

      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?

  32. riceman says:

    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……..

  33. Felicity says:

    Why are these always in Florida?

  34. Robok says:

    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!

  35. JHohn Davis says:

    WTF man?? Its not like the cops there have anything better to do!

    RT
    http://www.online-privacy.pro.tc

  36. no says:

    What’s with the retarded “countdown to fail” bullshit? Ruins the video

  37. Showdonn says:

    “OFFICER! That man put ice in my soda! I told him NOT to put ice in because it would water it down! ARREST HIM!”

  38. Mk'tubwa says:

    Ma beepoles need dar lamonides! He prolly dyin widdout dat lamonide dare!

    Donut laugh caws it be de troots.

  39. TheHell says:

    What the hell is this “3, 2 1″ bullshit. Stop doing that.

  40. jack in the crack says:

    I bet they didn’t have any freaking french fries either…..

  41. John says:

    this 1 is old already saw this one like 2 weeks ago on failblog

  42. luke says:

    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.

  43. Stella says:

    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.

  44. Sarah Bellum says:

    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.

  45. Griega says:

    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.

  46. Ginger says:

    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…

  47. adam says:

    fail boat

  48. emperorempoleon2 says:

    *posts first comment on second page because glitch*

  49. armanrules says:

    so what? i called 911 because someone misplaced my pringles

  50. d says:

    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

  51. WOW says:

    Meanwhile a man burns to death…

  52. phus says:

    He died in court.

  53. Chick says:

    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.


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