CNN: 911 getting emergency calls re line cutters at Walmarts.

[Mika]

West coast 911 dispatchers pissed at the calls about people cutting in lines waiting for Walmart to open.

America shines today. UNITED WE STAND :sarcasm:

[GrumpyGreg]

1. Aaaah,the spirit of love that glows during Christmastime !

I think Scrooge was on to something !

[1932]

2. If someone told me that the callers were being paid to call 911

in order to create news about lines at WalMart, I wouldn't be surprised.

[salin]

3. has to be a joke

seriously, is their anyone so hidious as to waste the time of emergency responders for line cutting? Or worse yet, are the folks so worked up that they are rioting over line-cutting and hence rioting is leading to emergency calls?

Joke, right?

[Mika]

5. Not a joke. CNN reporting 911 getting hundreds of calls.

See, cutting in line is a serious emergency that hurts 'Murica and must be dealt with immediately.

UNITED WE STAND (until Walmarts doors open). :sarcasm:

[salin]

7. "hundreds of calls"

no way. One or two jerks abusing our emergency systems, perhaps, but "Hundreds"? Someone is pulling the leg of CNN. As someone posts elsewhere... a planted PR story for Walmart - to subtly tell everyone the lines are long at Walmart and they better get to their nearby Walmart before the shelves are cleared?

[Randypiper]

8. Real Story

Police Dispatcher: “Sheriff’s Department. How can I help you?”

Caller: “Yeah, I’m over here at the Burger King drive-through.”

Dispatcher: “Uh huh.”

Caller: “I asked them four different times to make a Western BBQ Burger. OK, they keep giving me a hamburger with lettuce, tomato, cheese, onions and I said I’m not leaving. I want a Western Burger because I just got my kids from tae kwon do and they’re hungry. I’m on my way home and I live in San Clemente.”

Dispatcher: “Ma’am, we’re not going to go down there to enforce your Western Bacon Cheeseburger.”

The caller stayed on the line for five minutes and eventually gave up.

[salin]

10. LOLOL

Okay some folks are just disturbed.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. bob novak shops at wal-mart?

edit sp

[jedr]

6. Went there at 5 am to buy a LCD T.V. (cleanse me please)

Have never seen anything like it ... full parking lot,wall to wall, shoulder to shoulder with people stealing things form other peoples carts. pushing and shoving...like a huge football game....think that I've been tramatised....must have a Baily's and coffee and rest a bit...don't worry about me...I'll be O.K........Oh my!:dilemma:

[xultar]

12. Did you get your TeeV?

[jedr]

13. yep...but I don't know if the money I save was worth

he aggravation, but then again I've been on amusement park rides that were not as much of an adventure!

[xultar]

14. My family tradition is not to go out on Black Friday.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. I don't buy it

this has future urban myth written all over it. And the fact that CNN reported it helps convince me.

[neuvocat]

11. And its only 8 in the morning.

Geez. All this consumerism is taking away the meaning of the holidays. These people aren't even saving any money-the stores just say that there's a sale without reducing the prices hardly at all and people go in to these places and spend just about their entire day fighting people at the malls for the last toy on the shelf, fighting for parking, going to the next mall for the things they couldn't get in the first one, then repeat the whole process until they're totally broke.

[onethatcares]

15. it's the most wonderful time of the year

I keep singing it over and over, out loud, wherever I go.

[Vinca]

16. When I was a cop, a gas station attendant called to report a larceny.

A guy had shorted him a penny - A PENNY - on a tank of gas. Meanwhile, all hell was breaking out on the other end of town. Some people have no common sense.