hoosierdoc
Freed prisoner
So just had an extremely frustrating event. I was headed east on county line rd east of 135 in the inside lane. A car westbound swerved into my lane and made me move to avoid them. They did the same to the car behind me. I turned around and saw them actually driving west in the outside lane of the eastbound lanes. They turned off onto a side street and I called 911. They parked in front of a house, turned off their lights, and stayed in the car. Another car had followed them, I think out of concern for their driving, and it had a fireman license plate.
It took 90 seconds for 911 to answer the call and then I spent the next 6.5 minutes trying to explain to the operator where I was at. I explained exactly where it was, and she said she needed an intersection. I gave her the intersection I was parked at according to my car gps nav thing. She said it wasn't a valid one. I pulled out my phone and google was thinking I was somewhere else and I gave that street, though it didn't look like the streets where I was. I then corrected and found the correct place. I gave her the address of the house I was in front of, she said I gave her an invalid address. I gave her the address of the next house, she said it was invalid.
I hear her say "County Line road, now that is a boundary". And I say "Yes, between two counties..." I assume I was speaking with a marion county 911 operator who may not have had Johnson county maps or addresses? I was too pissed at this point to consider that possibility and she didn't ask, so who knows.
At this point I'm worried about being late for work and decided it was time to get driving since the vehicle was parked and another car was behind it. I said I'm glad I'm not dying from a heart attack on the side of the road somewhere and this has been the worst 911 experien (CLICK). She hung up on me.
I continued my drive and I saw an officer at the speedway at 31/county line but he had someone pulled over and didn't want to bother him. I saw a white police car parked at the station and went there, only to find it a repurposed one with some regular dude in it.
So, if you're near the border of a county should you specify which county you're in? Every other time the operator will reroute my call when I say where I'm at if the cell company routed me to the wrong dispatcher. Other than clarifying which county I was in (I said I was south of county line road) what else could I have done to give my location?
My call was placed at 11:31p and lasted 8 minutes if anyone is able to check into what happened. I'm sure they are recorded for quality assurance.
It took 90 seconds for 911 to answer the call and then I spent the next 6.5 minutes trying to explain to the operator where I was at. I explained exactly where it was, and she said she needed an intersection. I gave her the intersection I was parked at according to my car gps nav thing. She said it wasn't a valid one. I pulled out my phone and google was thinking I was somewhere else and I gave that street, though it didn't look like the streets where I was. I then corrected and found the correct place. I gave her the address of the house I was in front of, she said I gave her an invalid address. I gave her the address of the next house, she said it was invalid.
I hear her say "County Line road, now that is a boundary". And I say "Yes, between two counties..." I assume I was speaking with a marion county 911 operator who may not have had Johnson county maps or addresses? I was too pissed at this point to consider that possibility and she didn't ask, so who knows.
At this point I'm worried about being late for work and decided it was time to get driving since the vehicle was parked and another car was behind it. I said I'm glad I'm not dying from a heart attack on the side of the road somewhere and this has been the worst 911 experien (CLICK). She hung up on me.
I continued my drive and I saw an officer at the speedway at 31/county line but he had someone pulled over and didn't want to bother him. I saw a white police car parked at the station and went there, only to find it a repurposed one with some regular dude in it.
So, if you're near the border of a county should you specify which county you're in? Every other time the operator will reroute my call when I say where I'm at if the cell company routed me to the wrong dispatcher. Other than clarifying which county I was in (I said I was south of county line road) what else could I have done to give my location?
My call was placed at 11:31p and lasted 8 minutes if anyone is able to check into what happened. I'm sure they are recorded for quality assurance.
