DISTRESS CALL
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Talk about embarrassing moments. It was around 3 am things were pretty quiet around the city. Not too much going on. Dispatch is pretty much kicked back with their feet propped up, waiting for the phones to ring.
A call comes in, it's a young man, fifteen years old, he is talking extremely quiet. The dispatcher can barely hear him. He is home alone and wants to know if we can send a paramedic to his house. The dispatcher asks him what the problem is, he says "can't you just send a paramedic?"
The dispatcher gets his address, name, telephone number sends the call to fireside and they dispatch. She then proceeds to question the boy, "Are you hurt, is anyone injured there? The boy then tells the dispatcher he has something stuck in his zipper. She replies..."you have something stuck in your zipper?" He quietly answers, "yes", she asks, "is it your private part?" He responds, "yes mam." The comments are recorded.
Long story short, they arrive at the boys home, can't get it unstuck, so they cut his jeans off except around his private area, then transport him to the hospital.
You never know what kind of calls are going to come into the PD. Poor Kid. Just thought I'd share an interesting call with you guys!!
A call comes in, it's a young man, fifteen years old, he is talking extremely quiet. The dispatcher can barely hear him. He is home alone and wants to know if we can send a paramedic to his house. The dispatcher asks him what the problem is, he says "can't you just send a paramedic?"
The dispatcher gets his address, name, telephone number sends the call to fireside and they dispatch. She then proceeds to question the boy, "Are you hurt, is anyone injured there? The boy then tells the dispatcher he has something stuck in his zipper. She replies..."you have something stuck in your zipper?" He quietly answers, "yes", she asks, "is it your private part?" He responds, "yes mam." The comments are recorded.
Long story short, they arrive at the boys home, can't get it unstuck, so they cut his jeans off except around his private area, then transport him to the hospital.
You never know what kind of calls are going to come into the PD. Poor Kid. Just thought I'd share an interesting call with you guys!!
posted by Live, Love, Laugh | 6:58 PM
21 Comments:
Poor boy! That reminds me of the movie "There's Something About Mary" when Ben Stiller's character got both the top peice AND the bottom peice (if you get what I mean) stuck in the zipper. Very funny part of the movie, however it wasn't real so you knew you could laugh, this poor boy. Another reason why I am glad I am a WOMAN. LOL
Franks and Beans!
Awwwwwwwww poor little guy!!! Got his penis stuck in the zipper (it's okay msthang - you're a nurse, you're allowed to say it!)
Poor boy. I bet that was probably the most embarassing thing to happen.
Heidi I know, I was actually going to say what Chad said but thought I will keep on the DL in fear of offending anyone lol.
LOL...I thought stuff like that only happened in the movies.
Poor boy...he'll be humiliated for life.
oh, the horror! i cannot imagine the humiliation one might go through in that kind of predicament!
Oh my. The first thing I thought of was "There's Something About Mary" then I thought of the pain the boy must have been in. Ouch! No, double ouch!
Poor baby! He must have been embarassed to the nth degree!
Muzik sent me.
Too funny! Reminds me of that scene in "Something About Mary."
Visiting via the Muzik Dude :)
oh the poor kid!
Hi, here via Muzikdude
Poor baby! It is a funny story, though!
Visiting via Muzik - congrats on being the mystery blog!
Oh my!
Sounds like a great character building exercise.
Muzik sent me over..great story! I won't tell you about the guy who came into our ER with a 2 liter coke bottle...;)
mom - ouch!
The funny thing is most of the people here are referring to "Something out Mary" and you have probably never seen that movie. If you have I will be shocked.
Aw poor young thing. He will definately remember this one forever.
Yeah I didn't think it would have been a movie that she would have watched either which is why I had to explain the scene of the movie, and kept it "clean"
Still laughing about Muzik's comment! :)
Hi there:
I just came accross your blog today (via Chad.Chad).
It brought back some old memories for me. I was a police & fire dispatcher from 1983 thru 1992.
I remember talking with all sorts of people (usually not at their best). And there were the occasional funny calls like this that made the rounds of department humor (which was usually a little on the dark side, and slightly Jaded.) However, the humorous times really seemed to help in dealing with the truly sad situations that you came accross.
I worked many a graveyard shift myself. I remember being busy the first two or three hours of my shift, then doing some of my daily data entry tasks (we had to enter citations into the computer system). Then along about 3:00 am or so, everything would quite down. I remember putting my feet up, and having long talks with the shift sergeants, and some of the officers, as things would be very quiet until about 6:00 am or so -- usually when people would wake up in the morning and find their cars broken into, or property vandalized, or the first traffic accidents of the morning commute.
A few months ago, I met a dispatching buddy from way back. I blogged about it here.
Its all changed now. Several of the suburban communities in my area joined together to create a combined dispatch center. The dispatchers and officers never see each other, and don't have the chance to share stories with one another. Worse the dispatchers don't get to hear what happened on the calls that they handle, so there is less of a feeling of closure.
My best wishes to you. It sounds like you are doing the right things, and keeping your life centered in the Lord. It is so hard in the law enforcement environment to keep a positive attitiude about your fellow man. You see so much depravity, so much evil. So many hearts broken, and lives ruined. Its hard not to start thinking that this is how EVERYONE is! However, its not true.
I found the best medicine was to stay as close to God as possible, and to find things outside of yourself to focus on - community service, church service, etc. Have opportunities to meet GOOD people, so that you don't lose faith in humanity as a whole.
Take care, and may God bless you.
Poor guy! This happened to a kid in my 3rd grade class...over 30 years ago and I still remember the whole thing!
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