Police cheated girl, 4, of her trust! Okay, but I guess that is done with necessity.
Girl, 4, called 911 nearly 300 times
CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. - Authorities tracked down a 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times last month by offering to deliver McDonald’s to her suburban Chicago apartment.
Unbeknownst to her mother, the girl used a deactivated cell phone to call dispatchers 287 times in June sometimes as often as 20 times a shift.
Dispatchers heard the child’s voice but could only track the phone’s signal to the apartment complex.
So authorities used a ruse to pinpoint her.
“We asked (the caller) what she wanted. She said she wanted McDonald’s,” said Steve Cordes, executive director of QuadCom’s emergency center, which covers Carpentersville.
Source: Yahoo! News
If you’re a parent, it’s really hard to tell your kids not to call the police. Sometimes they’ll ask math questions too.
Tags: emergency, food and beverage, parenthood, phone, police, prank, usa
So did they deliver the McDonalds? Hehe, crazy kids. I can understand a kid getting away with calling 911 a few times, but 300? Where are the parents?
by Patrick (Mar 26, 2008 at 5 AM)