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Summary: Hey ! I know these guys .........
Review: ...... that's what I thought.
I work as an Emergency Medical Dispatcher and thought I had heard it all until I read this.
You guys in the states get calls just as crazy as we do here in Australia.
Great for a laugh and also an education on when NOT to call 911 (000).
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Summary: The Truth About 911
Review: A dispatcher's job can be rewarding, exciting, challenging, and sometimes very humorous. As most dispatchers will tell you the most memorable 911 calls are not necessarily the high-rise fires, suicide interventions, or the ones in which we provide life-saving medical information. It's those strange, unbelievable, stupid, or funny calls we take everyday that make our job worth doing. After all anyone can save lives. The seasoned dispatcher is the one that can keep from bursting into hysterical laughter when someone calls to tell them that while they were hanging drywall they accidentally slipped and lodged a screwdriver in their rectum, when oh by the way they so happen to be naked at the time. Humor plays a huge role in keeping us sane. We can laugh and joke at just about anything. Leland Gregory's book is a painful and acurate description of the job of a 911 dispatcher. I don't think there was a call in the book that I haven't taken personally in my career. A must read for anyone considering a 911 career.
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Summary: Not quite as funny as you'd think
Review: A lot of the 911 calls in here are pretty good, but few are quite up to the "well, duh" quality of, for example, Jay Leno's "Headlines."
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Summary: Not quite as funny as you'd think
Review: A lot of the 911 calls in here are pretty good, but few are quite up to the "well, duh" quality of, for example, Jay Leno's "Headlines."
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Summary: Call it "Dialing 911 for Dummies"
Review: Gosh this is a funny book! If you ever wondered what kinds of nonsense clutters up the emergency phone systems, then look no further. You get over 220 pages of short snappy stories about folks whose idea of an "emergency" is ... well ... here are some examples: having the hiccups ... too few towels in hotel room ... pet parrot flying outside ... not finding an open gas station ... needing a smoke alarm battery ... hunger for a pizza ... neighbor's dog barking ... wondering when is Cinco de Mayo ... checking lottery winners ... not knowing the police phone number One great story is on page 60: "Police in Houma, Louisiana, issued a citation in April 1992 to Velma Ann Wantlin for improper use of the 911 emergency line. Wantlin, twenty-eight at the time, called 911 to report the following emergency situation: her husband was preventing her from watching the season finale of Knotts Landing." Most of the stories and quotes from real callers range from silly to quirky to bizarre. The final chapter relates the actual 911 line chatter in a situation that literally blows up at the end -- a dramatic, sobering way to end the book. (See page 223.) You'll laugh at these funny phone foibles -- but take a closer look. An emergency is an urgent situation requiring help, and usually it's a matter of life and death. When people tie up the 911 system and the emergency services with stupid or frivolous requests, other people may die as a result. I particularly appreciate finding this book because it provides the lighter side of some of the serious problems I wrote about in my own book, Dial 911 and Die. Leland Gregory's funny book entertains while it shows what "not" to do with 911.
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Summary: Call it "Dialing 911 for Dummies"
Review: Gosh this is a funny book! If you ever wondered what kinds of nonsense clutters up the emergency phone systems, then look no further. You get over 220 pages of short snappy stories about folks whose idea of an "emergency" is ... well ... here are some examples: having the hiccups ... too few towels in hotel room ... pet parrot flying outside ... not finding an open gas station ... needing a smoke alarm battery ... hunger for a pizza ... neighbor's dog barking ... wondering when is Cinco de Mayo ... checking lottery winners ... not knowing the police phone number One great story is on page 60: "Police in Houma, Louisiana, issued a citation in April 1992 to Velma Ann Wantlin for improper use of the 911 emergency line. Wantlin, twenty-eight at the time, called 911 to report the following emergency situation: her husband was preventing her from watching the season finale of Knotts Landing." Most of the stories and quotes from real callers range from silly to quirky to bizarre. The final chapter relates the actual 911 line chatter in a situation that literally blows up at the end -- a dramatic, sobering way to end the book. (See page 223.) You'll laugh at these funny phone foibles -- but take a closer look. An emergency is an urgent situation requiring help, and usually it's a matter of life and death. When people tie up the 911 system and the emergency services with stupid or frivolous requests, other people may die as a result. I particularly appreciate finding this book because it provides the lighter side of some of the serious problems I wrote about in my own book, Dial 911 and Die. Leland Gregory's funny book entertains while it shows what "not" to do with 911.
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Summary: This tells the 911 story great
Review: I would highly recommend this book, particularly to fellow 911 dispatchers. We need a good laugh sometimes and this is it. We've all dealt with the stupid people who call to ask what time it is and when the opera starts - but these are some classic stories. Even if you aren't a 911 dispatcher - here's a great book about what it's really like.
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Summary: This tells the 911 story great
Review: I would highly recommend this book, particularly to fellow 911 dispatchers. We need a good laugh sometimes and this is it. We've all dealt with the stupid people who call to ask what time it is and when the opera starts - but these are some classic stories. Even if you aren't a 911 dispatcher - here's a great book about what it's really like.
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Summary: Old jokes and urban legends
Review: Oh God, what a waste of time. Look at this: 1) This is supposed to be funny: a woman was attacked by a chimp that escaped the zoo (so?)
2) Darwin Awards wanna-be stories: a man got a fish stucked on his mouth and died.
3)The WORST of all: Urban Legends!!!!!!!
Examples: the story about the lady that cannot find the 11 at her phone (as in nine-eleven), the man who got his penis stuck in the drain and, worst of all, the VERY OLD and false story about the guy who throws a cigarrette inside the toilet after his wife used insecticide in it (the reaction was an explosion). That third point ruins the whole book, because it breaks the credibility of the other stories. Avoid this book. I assure you that you will regret purchasing it.
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Summary: "Rescue 911 Bloopers" or "Rescue 911: Too weird for TV"
Review: This book is one of the funniest I have seen for a while. It is filled with strange-but-true stories about some of the 911 calls that are considered to be weird and strange. If you work for the 911 service, this is one book you shouldn't miss.
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