Don't Like Your Subway? Call 911
There are plenty of reasons to call the police: home invasion, armed robbery, kidnapping, heck, even locking your keys in the car is a great excuse to call the cops, but calling them because a fast-food restaurant messed up your order is NOT one of them!
And yet, it still happens. Reginald Peterson, a 42-year old construction worker and former felon, dialed 911 TWICE because a neighborhood Subway forgot to add sauce to his spicy Italian sandwich.
"We put everything that he asked for on it, and he comes back hollering at everyone," one Subway employee told The Florida Times-Union, "He was mad because we didn't put any sauces on it."
When police arrived Peterson would not go quietly and he ended up getting arrested on the charge of making false 911 calls. As for the sandwiches, Peterson told the police to throw them away.
Clearly this guy is a full blown whacko, but calling 911 over a food mishap is all too common. Take this lady who called the cops because her hamburger wasn't made correctly. You can feel the dispatcher's pain:
I think years of consuming fast-food willy-nilly is polluting America's gene pool. I weep for our nation.
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But what to do when you can't call 911 because you are a 911 person?
Article [via boingboing]ReplyI ordered a veggie foot-long at a Subway in West Virginia, and all I got was a loaf of bread with a bed of lettuce in it. Who should I call?
ReplySo you wrote this post because it gave you an opportunity to say bad things about America.
ReplyAnd you took the opportunity to miss the point, I see.
You don't have to be an American to be an idiot, and (and stay with me here, this is where it get bumpy) not all Americans are idiots. Right? People need to get thier heads out of their bungholes and realize that pointing out when other people are being stupid is not an indictment of a nation. Grow up.
-Alchemyguy (from the land of Igloos and real beer)
ReplySo it's a pointless post about a stupid guy, and you tie it to negative stuff about America. But I am wrong to notice that?
The blog post is so pointless and without value. I think the reason to post it to to get in that little zinger at America at the end. In some social circles, it's considered hip to run down America.
ReplyBen,
If Gerry wanted to write an article with an anti-US zinger, he could've done a much better job. I think Gerry is a better writer than you give him credit for...
ReplyGerry did say "weep for our nation", but I suspect he wasn't really weeping, nor does he think that this kind of behavior is unique to the USA... It was just a way to wrap up a posting about some seriously narcissistic people.
ReplySee Quito gets me! Thanks dude!
LOL.
Peace.
Reply-Gerry
Hey, Ben, why don't you call 911 on him then... or are you the type of American who just whines on message boards? :P
ReplyI heard about this yesterday. It's pretty ridiculous that he couldn't handle the situation on his own and thought that 911 was a service that fixed his problems.
ReplyAnyone who has ever worked fast-food or at a restaurant knows that people can get the most upset about their food - and sometimes it can be darn right scary!
It's very sad that people think they deserve perfection and then throw temper tantrums when it's not to their liking. - Just like the dispatcher said "You need to act like an adult ..."
It cracks me up that the lady replied with "The manager is not acting like an adult" reminded me of two kids fighting - well she started it ....
ReplyHere's a recording of a woman who called 911 looking for a babysitter. LOL
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b8_1179044519
ReplyApparently, having to take care of triplets drove this poor woman insane. She is forgiven.
The other two sound like a couple of babies themselves.
Reply>>"We put everything that he asked for on it...
Poor subway employees felt they need to defend themselves. LOL.
ReplyI would like to say that's shocking, but I'm not surprised. Wendy's forgot the "extras" on my salad the other day. When I got home and realized it, I felt like calling the restaurant to complain, but didn't even do that (let alone call 911!). What are people thinking?
ReplyThe gene pool is clearly DILUTED!
I say fine folks who tie up 911 non-emergency calls via their telephone bills:$1000 bucks a pop. That might teach em when they realize that it will cost them BIG. People needs those lines to LIVE. How anyone could construe 911 as a complaint line is beyond me.
Yep, $1000 bucks a pop. Makes money for 911 to hire more operators. :D
The Princess
ReplyPeople are stupid, pure and simple. I see it every day (I work at a hospital) and sometimes you deal with people that think they are just SO much more important than everyone else. Like people that come to the ER with a cut finger and demand that they get seen before someone who just came in who's having a stroke.
ReplyI just have to shake my head. This is like so many things I see just walking down the business district in my neighborhood. For example, people jumping in front of cars because they don't want to walk to the corner to cross the street (at the traffice light), and on and on it goes. In this case of 911 calling, I get incensed. We're all paying for 911 services in one way or the other. I expect perfection from 911 assisted services, and especially if I should happen to be afraid for my life, or be in danger of losing it for some health reason. Those 'Subway' and baby-sitting callers are potentially gumming up life-saving services. 'Subway' callers, please cease and desist!!!
ReplyAustin
http://drughealth.blogspot.com/
Or the woman who called 911 because she thought a deputy sheriff was cute and she wanted to go out on a date with him. She explained to the 911 operator that it was hard to get a date these days.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_071306_news_desperate_911_call.c18f792.html
ReplyJust not right. It's just not right.
Replysome people's stupidity really knows no bounds.
ReplyThe youtube really made me laugh so much, but it is serious, the same type of situation happens in Japan too...
ReplyLOL That is hilarious! "This isn't criminal!" "We're not sending deputes down there over a cheeseburger!"
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