Brickbat: Isn't That the Way They Say It Goes
An Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 911 operator has been reassigned after repeatedly telling a caller to "stop whining." The caller's father and his fiance had just been struck by a hit-and-run driver. The father later died.
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This is not provoking my anti-statist metaphorical war boner. In Postrel's day you got real outrages, not this big load of nothing.
Reason samples all levels of state misconduct... this just happens to be... smaller.
Stop whining, ifh!
tarran, clearly customer service isn't for you. We're going to have to reassign you. How's upper lower management sound?
Well, I guess everything's just bigger in Australia.
I hope you're drinking as appropriate, ifh. And I assume you're with Bruce, Bruce and Bruce.
"Australia! Australia! Australia! We love you! AMEN! Right - Rule numbah ONE! No pooftahs! Rule numbah TWO! I don't wanna catch anybody NOT drinking! Rule numbah THREE? No pooftahs!"
Of course I'm drinking - s'hot enough to boil a monkey's bum.
Scotch and Vegemite on the rocks?
The combatants: Scotch and Vegemite
The battlefield: Your tongue
The rules: It ends in death of the Scotch, the Vegemite, or the tongue
Let's get ready to rumble...
Or?
my best friend's ex-wife makes $65 an hour on the computer . She has been without a job for seven months but last month her check was $13740 just working on the computer for a few hours. try this..............
????? http://www.netpay20.com
Not to make light of this tragedy but they also say 'stop whining about taxes!'
Stop taxing me and I'll stop whining about taxes.
You know, for a "service" called "911"....
Well they do work with a department whose motto is "to serve and protect"
I am so starting to get the Millennial's logic. At some point, these calls should become obsolete. Having to convey pertinent information when people are distraught or injured, isn't exactly a model of efficiency. An app that relays information should include picture, name, location and maybe a heart monitor, this would eliminate precious seconds talking to 911 operators who are annoyed you aren't the epitome of calm while watching a family member die.
If only we could be like Vulcans.
We are smarter than Vulcans, we interbred
Spock.
To be fair, in about two minutes I'd have been screaming at that operator, "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!"
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