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Post by cecilia on Nov 22, 2014 17:05:16 GMT
However, I am glad they checked.
I get up and get dressed. Then I hear the door bell ringing. Thought it was my Dad messing with Rudy. (Had yet to see my Dad this morning, he rings the door bell to mess with Rudy sometimes and hardly anyone comes by the house without calling first).
I was standing in the living room, my Dad walks in from the back porch (I didn't see him back there even with the glass windows). Asks if the door bell had rung. I was like, "yeah."
He answers the door. It was a police officer. He asks if everything was okay, they had received a hang up 911 call. Dad says everything was okay, no one called 911 from the house. He didn't. I hadn't. Mom was still asleep. Police officer asks if this was for sure (insert our address) and if this was the (insert our last name) residence. Dad was said it was, however no one called.
While we are still confused as to how they got our address as a 911 hang up, I am glad they still checked.
(Tempted not to post this because I know how some peas might be "you were wasting time for a real emergency! and such. However, I am confused as to how they got our address yet am glad they checked anyway).
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gsquaredmom
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Post by gsquaredmom on Nov 22, 2014 17:10:14 GMT
That happened to my parents. No one called. Police showed up. They searched every nook and cranny of the house because it was at a time people were holding old people hostage and beating them in their own homes. The police wanted to be sure my folks were ok and alone. All was fine. No one knows what triggered the call.
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Post by turangaleela on Nov 22, 2014 17:12:15 GMT
According to what I hear on my police scanner, pocket-dials (aka butt-dialing) happen all the time. The police in my town follow up on each one (prioritized by what else is happening, of course), but that might have been it in your case.
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Nov 22, 2014 17:16:59 GMT
My dd tried to call a friend once (or that's her story) and accidentally called 911 and hung up. She was 11 at the time and about crapped her pants when the police showed up.
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Nov 22, 2014 17:18:53 GMT
My mil once was trying to program 911 into her new phone.
Yep. They showed up because she dialed it. Didn't even occur to her that the call would go through.
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Post by salem on Nov 22, 2014 18:00:37 GMT
This happened to us. Nobody was even home and supposedly the call came from our landline, not our cell. The police showed up and looked around. We had no idea until the next day our neighbor knocked on the door to ask if everything was ok and told us the police had been there. Strange.
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Post by monklady123 on Nov 22, 2014 19:06:31 GMT
We had this happen to us once, in a torrential downpour. It had been raining and RAINING for days. Still raining hard and there was a knock at the door. I looked out to find a drenched policeman who said they'd received a 911 call from us. I said no everything was fine, and invited him in. I guess they can tell my your demeanor if you're really being held hostage or something. I did ask him where his car was (didn't see it out front) and he said that they don't drive right up to a house if there's been a hang-up 911 call. So he was parked around the corner. We're the second house down from the corner so he'd walked around there and down two houses in that pouring rain. oy
Turns out that this happened a LOT during that three-days of rain we had -- something about lines crossed, or rain in the transformers, or something. It happened to us again the next day but that time they just called back, probably because they already had it on record that the previous day's call had been a false alarm.
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Post by penny on Nov 22, 2014 20:29:50 GMT
It happens... When cordless phones are run out of battery power seems to be a common cause, but we've had calls come in where it was one charging station that was unplugged, that an alternate 911 number (000, 999, etc) gets pressed by accident... If it's nothing obvious, no worries... If it starts to happen a lot, check more into your phones (poor charging, sticky keys, loose wires)... Can happen to anyone - my cousin is a police office and he was woken up a bunch of times by his coworkers checking on him...lol His wife loves that he now always puts the phone back in the charger...lol  |
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Post by onescrappygirl on Nov 22, 2014 21:07:17 GMT
My story is exactly the same as monklady123. The heavy downpour of rain triggered a 911 call from our phone line. Unfortunately it was in the middle of the night and the police officer didn't believe my DH that I was ok. So I had to waddle my 8 month pregnant body into the living room to show the officer that I was indeed ok and had not called for help.
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Post by annabella on Nov 22, 2014 22:22:56 GMT
I've read so many threads where peas say they've gotten rid of their land line, I do wonder have to wonder if they have do have an emergency 911 won't have their address if they hang up or say you dial but then have to stay silent because there's an intruder. I watched a lot of American's Most Wanted growing up and saw every random scenario to people who live in the middle of nowhere.
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Post by cahwoo on Nov 22, 2014 22:34:37 GMT
My grand daughter once dialed 911 when she was 2. She was in the playroom alone and at that time there was a phone in that room. LOL after the police showed up and questioned everyone and checked the house the phone was removed from that room.
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