Who TF says someone walking around a house threatening lives for hours isn't an emergency!? I hope whoever made that call was fired! They should almost be charged with aiding in multiple murders!
Facts. In what reality is it NOT an emergency if a man is walking around talking about taking the kids to Heaven?!? Ye gods… when something like this happens they always talk about how they could have seen it coming, it was such a surprise, yet here they KNEW the man was delusional and thinking about killing his family and yet they said, eh, we’ll pick him up on MONDAY?!? I’m so freaking incensed…
To be fair, regarding the woman that couldn't escape the blind man, it was a blind man in his own home. He probably knew the area well enough to navigate effectively and she was probably struggling to keep quiet. Also, there are different kinds of blind. He may have been able to see minimal colors/shapes/movements...not enough to identify anything visually regardless of corrective lenses, but enough to at least see the only source of movement in a small space.
Also, blind doesn't mean small or slow. A blind large man that can move quickly, could block the doorways and be difficult to navigate around in small rooms or spaces. Especially because, he's not completely deaf. Being blind also has a lot of different forms from being able to see a very small area fine to not being able to see anything clearly past a few inches to having a lot of floaters and stuff clogging up your vision. These are all types of being blind which would mean that if he could still potentially see her at times, and would make it difficult to escape him despite his blindness, as it is minimal vision, rather than a complete and utter lack of vision.
I know of at least one dispatcher out there that has had an old woman call for EMS because her husband was dead only to hear a male voice shouting in the background "Stop telling people I'm dead!" Yes, just like the scene from Brother Bear.
My mom was a 911 operator for a couple decades. There's one story in particular she told me that fits. Okay, so, it's a cloudy night. Someone calls the police to report a UFO above our local living museum. By chance, there happens to be officers there, so she calls them and skeptically asks if they can see a UFO above them. Officers get out, look up, and reply: 'sorry, that's us'. The lights on the police cars had been reflecting off the clouds, making the clouds look like there was something in there flashing alternating red and blue lights.
I’ve seen tons of videos of things like that. I once saw one where the sky went from dark to light to dark. Turned out a power plant blew across town and the sparks were lighting up the sky with a pale blue that made it look like day (there were multiple perspectives, one of which was a news station).
@@ArcanineEspeon It was night and I guess they were bright enough and the clouds thick/low enough that it was able to reflect off? This was a story from a couple decades ago, and as Mom was the dispatcher she didn't see any of this herself. I got it third-hand.
Screw feeling guilty they should be held accountable for derliction of duty. That one hit way to close to home as someone who worked in mental health and had a patient released early only to go home and murder a family member. I had to deal with the aftermath of a completely destroyed family trying to figure out what went wrong.
@@ResavianSeriously, here they had all the indicators they needed and let them all die. People have been arrested or shot for less than what he was doing but these cops just shrugged it off?
Story 17 made me tear up I have to say. I'm completely blind myself and this is something that could totally happen. Sometimes I have failed to notice something because of my lack of sight, but nothing on this level. I can't imagine the pain he went through.
I've heard of the emu one - or a very similar story. I feel bad for the bird, the man and the car, but "six foot chicken" is a hilarious description. Edit to correct for auto-correct being incorrect.
Dude don't get me wrong, I love these videos, you're by far my favorite reddit-reading channel (idk what they're called-) but PLEASE get rid of the vertical formating in your recent videos😭😭
I know you guys are using a vertical format to make these videos easier to clip for shorts but if you can find it in your heart to return to the original format that would be greatly appreciated.
I appreciate the "THINGS ARE HEATED AND ABOUT TO GET DANGEROUS" calls. While it's not good that they're in the heated situation, and they probably had some judgement issues to get there, it shows some real maturity to go "Hey I'm in over my head and not in the best frame of mind. I'd like some help from a professional, please!"
To be fair a 6 month old lion cub is larger than a stocky mastiff/rottweiler type dog. A month old lion cub is pug sized, Doubt a 1 or 2 month old cub managed to escape so she likely did have like at last a labrador sized lion in her room
Good god, I know right? What an awful thing to do. I don't care HOW mad you are at someone, killing a poor animal who had nothing to do with it is just... ugh... makes me so mad >:|
I am a pacifist, literally in a religious sense. I do not, and will not own a gun due to my own mental health issues. If someone hurt my cat, and I knew who it was. I don't know if my principles would hold back my rage. I really don't know what would happen. My lack of s firearm would not be a deterrent.
@@squiddwizzard8850 this is not the right place to Tell this. But I hope I can one day. There is just too Much I’ve been trying for Years to talk about just some of it. My parents. They . Ok I can’t it’s so fucking ducked up and it’s about my cat- my baby an baby brother to My baby Doggie. Had surgery again I can’t Type. It hurts so much - not the surgery It’s the thoughts and honestly sociopathic gas lighting and straight up Abuse. They did Not Outright “kill him” as far as I know.. I trusted them Then It’s what was before and they knew very well. And what they did After it’s sick it’s makes Me Sick can’ T say his name Our Loud for He becomes So sad and upset that he can’t find Hvis Still to This day years after it happened And I learned what really happened -he is buried not even 3 mins walking away from Me For All These years . I’m Sorry I can’t anymore right now This is a mess and I don’t care. It’s so It hits hurts I miss my baby baby dog misses his bröther desperately I can’t even describes it it’s so sick my mother is not ok I can’t not Right now. The mention of the fucked up thing someone did to that cat really really hit me so hard not Good Time either I just want to be treated right there is so Much I’m the fall pit for anyone’s ducked up shit And nobody hears me. Percey I miss you. Sam misses you to an indiscribable extent still they hurt so many
Alcohol doesn't make you see things that aren't there, that's true. But it CAN impair your judgement enough to make false claims or prank 911 without being able to think clearly enough to make a believable story to go WITH the call.
Actually in cases of ongoing alcohol addiction and abuse there is a condition known as "alcohol hallucinosis" which follows immediately after heavy alcohol use, it is rare but not abundently so, but more likely it would have been reduced situational awareness and capacity to process stimuli. Had it indeed not been a hippo of course.
@@Resavian Delirium Tremens only happens during withdrawal, not while drinking. And it can cause schizophrenic symptoms (so yes, rarely hallusinations), due to seizures. And yes, seizures can make you halluainate. And after a seizure you will be very confused for a while, because your brain needs to learn to work properly again. I took 2 weeks before I remembered everything that happpened that day before and after the seizure. It's not a fun thing. I also talked nonsense right after my seizure, it's not uncommon.
Regarding the story about a blind person, there is a 911 operator that should be fired in my personal opinion. I happen to be mostly blind, and granted I don't know all of the details of this particular individual, but to suggest that blind people can't be dangerous is just absurd. Not saying that we all are or that I am, but saying that we're people just like everyone else. Don't assume you know everything about a person based on a physical disability. Shoot people still can't wrap their head around the fact that we can use phones for God's sake 12:22
Had to make a weird call once. There's a hydro electric power plant over a river with a pedestrian bridge right next to it. I went over that bridge and found dozens of mostly dead birds all over it. Apparently a whole swarm of starlings crashed into the big windows of the power plant and fell down onto the bridge. Didn't really know who to call and decided for the fire department. I don't think they believed me at first but did eventually show up and clean up the mess.
2:16 I love the voices you put on, and you have such a good eye for when to put inflection on something. The whole conversation was gold, and the way you cried out 'Hippo!' had me laughing for a couple minutes straight.
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EMS in training here. The broken legs story had me FLOORED bc who in their right mind would send an ambulance out without supplies? Ambulances should be stocked for any emergency, bc stocking up as needed for every call is a surefire way to get someone killed. Even if they were a bit disbelieving about the idea of someone breaking limbs just by walking, they need to be prepared for anything from a false alarm to a nearly fatal scenario.
mocking her for being attacked by a blind man is way out of pocket. what if she was cornered? blind people can hear after all... what? hes like concerning.
a lot of legally blind people are also still able to see some things, and he would have been in his own home with less space for her to move around and he is very familiar with navigating the house. Glad people are correcting this in the comments
@@RedK5 the person who mocked the blind person wouldn't have known to use that term, but any "legally blind" person will tell you they are blind for short. So it's the same for this purpose, but I used the more accurate term (afaik) to indicate it's a spectrum with a cutoff point
What they were doing with the catheter is called sounding. When you first hear of it you are like WTF who does that? Then you find out it is very popular, like way, way, more popular than you could have imagined.
Yep. they even sell 'sounding kits" with an assortment of sounds of varying sizes. I have even heard of men's urethras so stretched out by this that another man can INSERT his penis INTO that man's penis!
The dad yelling about the drugs instead of caring that someone was actively dying is an accurate representation of the messed up way America tends to view addiction. Ignoring the people who need help to instead yell at the drugs, which doesn't help anyone.
Dispatched in a small town. Early in the morning, I got a 911 call from a male who stated he was going to tell me where to find a dead body. He gave the address, then said I might want to take the phone away from my ear because it would be loud. I heard a loud bang, a scream, then nothing. I immediately knew who it was from his voice. I didn't have any time to try to interact with him because it happened so fast. He totally staged it. He put tarps around to make clean up easy. He was an alcoholic but made sure no alcohol bottles were anywhere to be seen. It was very sad.
yeah, I mean, pretty much any pet will still bite you if you stress it out enough. Being put in someone's mouth is a pretty good reason to bite! But they probably do recognise the owner, even bees or jumping spiders can do that.
42:00 There was an Adam-12 episode where Malloy and Reed got in huge trouble for abandoning a traffic stop to respond to another call. Turns out the guy they had stopped was a serious criminal and had a warrant out for his arrest, which they would've known if they'd waited to get his information instead of just letting him go.
Irt the story about the girl with FD and two broken legs, a lot of us Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome patients have similar stories, but with absurd dislocations instead of fractures (though we are prone to those, as well). Operator: "Your girlfriend has a dislocated shoulder AND dislocated ribs? And how did that happen?" Friend's BF: "She flopped backwards onto the bed too hard with one arm up." Operator: "She...? What's making you think her shoulder and ribs are dislocated?" Friend's BF: "Oh, they're VERY obviously dislocated. She has a genetic disorder and dislocates easily. Please just send an ambulance and we can explain it to them." Operator: "Sir, I need to be sure that an ambulance is warranted before I can do that and I'm not convinced that what you described is possible." After some more back-and-forth, he called his mum to drive them to the hospital and called me to go with them and explain her medical situation, since I was a human genetics major at the time and also have EDS. EDS causes a lot of secondary conditions, including Dysautonomia, which can prevent the body from regulating heart rate and blood pressure properly. With the shock and pain of her injuries, her blood pressure was super low and she was tachycardic, so they needed someone who could explain everything on her behalf. It's also just far more likely we'll be taken seriously if we have others there to advocate for us and confirm that yes, the injuries/symptoms we're reporting are actually a thing. Having some pre-med education and being able to "speak medical-ese" can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the doctor's personality, so I tend to tread lightly until I know how that'll be received. I've encountered FAR too many docs who get annoyed (as if my educational background is a threat to their authority or something) and just refuse to believe anything I say after that point. It's led to serious harm and a LOT of delayed diagnoses and treatment, over the years. Thankfully, these days it's more common for doctors to have at least heard of EDS, but most still don't know much about it -- and certainly not enough to treat us without guidance. It's exhausting 😑
To be fair to the one lady You can still have some level of vision and be considered legally blind You don't have to have 100% vision loss to be considered blind
There is simply not enough text on the screen to keep up, another vertical format. Also, are you using speech recognition? Cus the text is wrong a lot of times
You'd think 911 operators of all people would understand that 'blind' doesn't mean they can't see. Often there's different levels of blindness. Some can see colours, light and shape. It's legally blind but not like in cartoons and movies
Has anyone else noticed that the video shows a rider galloping his horse across multiple bridges and trestles. That's a good way to break the horse's leg. Works EVERY time!
Dude anyone at the 13:00 story who decided to just “wait for Monday for a psych hold” is a lazy son of a female dog who needs to lose their ability to work in anything more urgent than a janitor position. And to be thrown in a cell for negligence. I’m so mad at our post justice system. Sometimes there are clear signs that people need help.
If you need help because you did something stupid, don't try to hide it, they've seen it before and know faster than you can imagine. Instead, flat out admit it to begin with. "I did something stupid, and now I need your help." At least that way, you get points for honesty, and they can reasonably expect answers from you about important details you didn't know were important and won't have to just guess and risk doing the wrong thing.
Pigs used for meat are actually much bigger than many people would expect. I would not have been surprised if the one guy actually saw a huge pig instead of a hippo.
The one about the man who killed his family after his wife and his mom called for help… so sad and so preventable! I hope laws / rules were changed. Name it after the poor woman
Appreciate the short, witty, snappy comments you make on the stories. It annoys me probably more than it should when narrators ramble between stories, usually with nothing especially unique or interesting to say. Thumbs up, my dude.
Pretty unrelated, but about a week ago there was this kid who came up to my dad, just asking him to push him on the swing. Definitely some sort of neglect there, my dad didn't mention seeing any parents either
In her teens my cousin did a trial shift as a 999 call handler. One of the calls she took during that shift was from a lady who'd come home and found a s****de note her husband had written. During the call, the lady found him. He'd hung himself. Pretty traumatic for a teenager to hear on their first shift. My cousin was given a short break after that call and then told to get back to it. No additional support provided. Unsurprisingly, she decided that career wasn't right for her.
not sure about elsewhere but if you call for an ambulance over an OD in Australia we don't care, we don't want to know anything beyond what is necessary to provide treatment and we WILL NOT get law enforcement involved. Our jobs as health care providers is to get you well again and save lives, if we call the cops we break the trust and maybe next time someone doesn't call.
12:22 Number 16 is a perfect example of why mental health calls beed to be taken more seriously. Those people saw it coming and tried to get help. Imagine being afraid for your life and someone telling you thats its fine and to just wait until monday.
13:16 honestly, I have to agree with the wife here. He was obviously a danger to his family, and the operators did nothing. I know it’s not entirely ops fault, but it’s hard, knowing that the wife and mother called multiple times, begging for help that they never received…
I really don't get all the anger at the vertical format lmao. I'm here to listen to guys read stories. I do that with my ears. I don't care what shape the video is.
24:17 my dad used to do that with his pet tarantulas. He was just crazy and wanted to show how wacky and crazy he was. Dude even wore dresses in public and had people honk their horns at him lmao. And here I am, his extremely arachnophobic son.
8:38 look, if you're going to fight while intoxicated calling 911 before you start is honestly not the worst idea. You'll probably get arrested, but you probably won't die
I got to the story that ended at about the 14 minute mark (the murder/suicide), and unfortunately, I have more than one story like that from working night shift 911 Dispatch in a rural community. The worst part for me was almost always knowing them, or knowing someone that was close to them. Sometimes I got help to the people I knew in time, sometimes it got there too late.
So here’s a question… fo y’all really sit for an hour and actually LOOK at the video game graphics while listening to these stories? I thought the graphics were filler because most folks put the stories on and do other things. You’d really piss away an hour staring at nothing? Put on the stories and actually play Red Dead Redemption, man.
The story being light hearted about the guy trying to take his life by jumping in to traffic. Best I can think after working my current job. Guy didn't jump in to traffic because the girl distracted him from the cars.
Former 911 operator. Weirdest calls that Id get that arent fucked up were from this couple. They'd call us when one of them was mad at the other 99% of the time, it was them fighting over the custody of a monkey they owned.
A blind man can hear her. And can probably feel the heat from her body. Everyone with a disability can tell you that and it’s his house so he knows his way around.
I had a guy call in telling me the gates of hell are in Indiana and a grandson called in to report that while sitting on the toilet, his grandma fell through the second floor to the first floor, still on the toilet.
I usually love your content,and I love how you’ve always been really receptive towards criticism,however so many ppl have been asking to get rid of vertical format for the last while and there’s radio silence,it’s not a good look dude. Please listen to your viewers
12:30 You're telling me they heard a euphemism for un-pulse-having the whole family and thought that was NOT a good time to be booking it down the highway???
Not a 911 operator but I am a PBX operator in a hospital. Our policy is we have no advice nurses because we cannot give medical advice over the phone so it's up to your discretion if you wanna come to the emergency room. We've gotten a few odd calls, my coworker and I, but there was one call I was so dumbfounded by. Dude calls saying something about Viagra and his well you know what wasn't becoming erect and figuring out what to do.... I just told him I'd transfer him to the emergency room because sometimes talking with the kinds of people we get is very frustrating. He never called back like majority of people do so idk what he did.
At 28:23, Dude, my BF has been my SO for more than five years. He has NO idea when my birthday is. In fact, I was married for 17 years and my best girlfriend reminded my husband every year because he couldnt remember and would cry and want sympathy from me when he forgot.
Not a 911 operator but i do have this story, i was getting ready for bed, it was about 10 o clock at night when i heard the doorbell ringing, so I opened my door and saw an old woman like..she was probrably in her mid 80’s, dressed all nice, she had glasses on and finally she said “Have you seen the boys?” I answered “No..im sorry i dont know who that is.” “Oh..do you think your neighbours have seen them?” “No..I’m sorry there are only car repair shops around here.” It was weird because she was talking about them as if they were her kids, my sister gets woken up by all this and said “Whats going on?” When i told her she Said “Oh..Iill go look for Them with her.” I whispered in Her ear “are you crazy? We dont even know this woman.” She ignored me and went outside and actually looked around for Them, about 30 minutes later, my sister returns, not with the Old lady tho, i looked outside, but she was nowhere to be found,
Who TF says someone walking around a house threatening lives for hours isn't an emergency!? I hope whoever made that call was fired! They should almost be charged with aiding in multiple murders!
It was probably in the USA...cops here have no actual duty to protect people even if there is obvious danger.
ikr!! that’s just stupid! they’re threatening to murder people, for HOURS.
Facts. In what reality is it NOT an emergency if a man is walking around talking about taking the kids to Heaven?!? Ye gods… when something like this happens they always talk about how they could have seen it coming, it was such a surprise, yet here they KNEW the man was delusional and thinking about killing his family and yet they said, eh, we’ll pick him up on MONDAY?!? I’m so freaking incensed…
Texas, apparently.
Agreed.
To be fair, regarding the woman that couldn't escape the blind man, it was a blind man in his own home. He probably knew the area well enough to navigate effectively and she was probably struggling to keep quiet.
Also, there are different kinds of blind. He may have been able to see minimal colors/shapes/movements...not enough to identify anything visually regardless of corrective lenses, but enough to at least see the only source of movement in a small space.
Also, blind doesn't mean small or slow. A blind large man that can move quickly, could block the doorways and be difficult to navigate around in small rooms or spaces. Especially because, he's not completely deaf.
Being blind also has a lot of different forms from being able to see a very small area fine to not being able to see anything clearly past a few inches to having a lot of floaters and stuff clogging up your vision. These are all types of being blind which would mean that if he could still potentially see her at times, and would make it difficult to escape him despite his blindness, as it is minimal vision, rather than a complete and utter lack of vision.
This is exactly what I was thinking, as a visually impaired person myself I can get around my house pretty fast
Exactly this, I do think it might be why she survived as I guess the aim was limited, but of course he could keep up in his own house
Maybe she didn't see well either.
Well plus she’s running around screaming, so…
"THE CHICKEN IS FREE!" had me rolling
Same here!
Story 16 was truly on the supervisor and 911 operator fault. Such tragedy could have been prevented
I know of at least one dispatcher out there that has had an old woman call for EMS because her husband was dead only to hear a male voice shouting in the background "Stop telling people I'm dead!"
Yes, just like the scene from Brother Bear.
My mom was a 911 operator for a couple decades. There's one story in particular she told me that fits. Okay, so, it's a cloudy night. Someone calls the police to report a UFO above our local living museum. By chance, there happens to be officers there, so she calls them and skeptically asks if they can see a UFO above them. Officers get out, look up, and reply: 'sorry, that's us'. The lights on the police cars had been reflecting off the clouds, making the clouds look like there was something in there flashing alternating red and blue lights.
This one needs to be on a video. That's hilarious.
I’ve seen tons of videos of things like that. I once saw one where the sky went from dark to light to dark. Turned out a power plant blew across town and the sparks were lighting up the sky with a pale blue that made it look like day (there were multiple perspectives, one of which was a news station).
Wait...how did the lights get all the way up there?
@@ArcanineEspeon It was night and I guess they were bright enough and the clouds thick/low enough that it was able to reflect off? This was a story from a couple decades ago, and as Mom was the dispatcher she didn't see any of this herself. I got it third-hand.
Story 16 was likely preventable had the appropriate action been taken. Everyone who did nothing should feel guilty and responsible.
Screw feeling guilty they should be held accountable for derliction of duty. That one hit way to close to home as someone who worked in mental health and had a patient released early only to go home and murder a family member. I had to deal with the aftermath of a completely destroyed family trying to figure out what went wrong.
@@ResavianSeriously, here they had all the indicators they needed and let them all die. People have been arrested or shot for less than what he was doing but these cops just shrugged it off?
“As long as he isn’t acting violent…”
I guess “I’m going to kill you all” isn’t violent.
That’s unforgivable.
Story 17 made me tear up I have to say. I'm completely blind myself and this is something that could totally happen. Sometimes I have failed to notice something because of my lack of sight, but nothing on this level. I can't imagine the pain he went through.
Eh, like the OP said, when the old man found out his son was definitely dead, he was in the company of emergency workers.
I've heard of the emu one - or a very similar story. I feel bad for the bird, the man and the car, but "six foot chicken" is a hilarious description.
Edit to correct for auto-correct being incorrect.
Dude don't get me wrong, I love these videos, you're by far my favorite reddit-reading channel (idk what they're called-) but PLEASE get rid of the vertical formating in your recent videos😭😭
What is vertikel formating
@@Luvvias Google the word vertical illiterate one.
@@alphamaccao5224did yoo call me iliyerate
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SUN AND MOON SHOW FAN!!
HIS INTESTINES??? i gasped
I was eating and had to stop cause my mind visualized it. Yikes.
well that's one way to get prolapse..
I know you guys are using a vertical format to make these videos easier to clip for shorts but if you can find it in your heart to return to the original format that would be greatly appreciated.
Exactlyyy😭😭😭
YEAH
Even having the image normal, but confining the text to the middle would make it look better and still allow easy clips for shorts.
I appreciate the "THINGS ARE HEATED AND ABOUT TO GET DANGEROUS" calls. While it's not good that they're in the heated situation, and they probably had some judgement issues to get there, it shows some real maturity to go "Hey I'm in over my head and not in the best frame of mind. I'd like some help from a professional, please!"
The lion cub was just standing there, MENACINGLY!
To be fair a 6 month old lion cub is larger than a stocky mastiff/rottweiler type dog. A month old lion cub is pug sized, Doubt a 1 or 2 month old cub managed to escape so she likely did have like at last a labrador sized lion in her room
Excuse me.
-But What THE FUk!? was that about the cat head and the body in the car!!?????
That one really hurt :( I think I'd go mad with grief if that was my kitty... 💔
Good god, I know right? What an awful thing to do. I don't care HOW mad you are at someone, killing a poor animal who had nothing to do with it is just... ugh... makes me so mad >:|
I am a pacifist, literally in a religious sense. I do not, and will not own a gun due to my own mental health issues.
If someone hurt my cat, and I knew who it was.
I don't know if my principles would hold back my rage. I really don't know what would happen. My lack of s firearm would not be a deterrent.
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Same, I would not be acting rationally if someone hurt my animals.
Alcohol doesn't make you see things that aren't there, that's true. But it CAN impair your judgement enough to make false claims or prank 911 without being able to think clearly enough to make a believable story to go WITH the call.
Actually in cases of ongoing alcohol addiction and abuse there is a condition known as "alcohol hallucinosis" which follows immediately after heavy alcohol use, it is rare but not abundently so, but more likely it would have been reduced situational awareness and capacity to process stimuli. Had it indeed not been a hippo of course.
@@Resavian ahh good to know
@@Resavian You are referring to what used to be called "delirium tremens", I believe.
@@BabalonNuit Yeah that is kind of the general term for it.
@@Resavian Delirium Tremens only happens during withdrawal, not while drinking. And it can cause schizophrenic symptoms (so yes, rarely hallusinations), due to seizures. And yes, seizures can make you halluainate. And after a seizure you will be very confused for a while, because your brain needs to learn to work properly again. I took 2 weeks before I remembered everything that happpened that day before and after the seizure. It's not a fun thing. I also talked nonsense right after my seizure, it's not uncommon.
Regarding the story about a blind person, there is a 911 operator that should be fired in my personal opinion. I happen to be mostly blind, and granted I don't know all of the details of this particular individual, but to suggest that blind people can't be dangerous is just absurd. Not saying that we all are or that I am, but saying that we're people just like everyone else. Don't assume you know everything about a person based on a physical disability. Shoot people still can't wrap their head around the fact that we can use phones for God's sake 12:22
16:30 i learned about teletypewriters in my ASL class, those things are ooooold and the whole system is pretty clunky.
Had to make a weird call once. There's a hydro electric power plant over a river with a pedestrian bridge right next to it. I went over that bridge and found dozens of mostly dead birds all over it. Apparently a whole swarm of starlings crashed into the big windows of the power plant and fell down onto the bridge.
Didn't really know who to call and decided for the fire department. I don't think they believed me at first but did eventually show up and clean up the mess.
2:16 I love the voices you put on, and you have such a good eye for when to put inflection on something. The whole conversation was gold, and the way you cried out 'Hippo!' had me laughing for a couple minutes straight.
Thank you so much for switching to horse riding in Red Dead Redemption games. It gives me much less vertigo to watch
To those of you drowning in debt, you can sign up for income based payments. If the business/hospital you owe doesn’t offer that, there are still ways to do it.
There are so many ways to get help here! Money is just a tool, don’t let it stop you from living. I know it sucks but it’s not the bottomless pit you think it is.
To the person doing the gameplay - FEED YOUR DAMN HORSE!
😂😂😂
"The chicken is free!" made my day
EMS in training here. The broken legs story had me FLOORED bc who in their right mind would send an ambulance out without supplies? Ambulances should be stocked for any emergency, bc stocking up as needed for every call is a surefire way to get someone killed. Even if they were a bit disbelieving about the idea of someone breaking limbs just by walking, they need to be prepared for anything from a false alarm to a nearly fatal scenario.
That was my reaction too especially for something as common as broken legs even if this particular case was for an uncommon reason.
mocking her for being attacked by a blind man is way out of pocket. what if she was cornered? blind people can hear after all... what? hes like concerning.
Yeah, isn’t there a horror movie about a blind person murderer?
a lot of legally blind people are also still able to see some things, and he would have been in his own home with less space for her to move around and he is very familiar with navigating the house. Glad people are correcting this in the comments
@@lachouette_et_le_phoque I thought it said blind and not legally blind
@@RedK5 the person who mocked the blind person wouldn't have known to use that term, but any "legally blind" person will tell you they are blind for short. So it's the same for this purpose, but I used the more accurate term (afaik) to indicate it's a spectrum with a cutoff point
What they were doing with the catheter is called sounding. When you first hear of it you are like WTF who does that? Then you find out it is very popular, like way, way, more popular than you could have imagined.
Kinks: If you can think of it, someone is into it.
Yep. they even sell 'sounding kits" with an assortment of sounds of varying sizes. I have even heard of men's urethras so stretched out by this that another man can INSERT his penis INTO that man's penis!
The dad yelling about the drugs instead of caring that someone was actively dying is an accurate representation of the messed up way America tends to view addiction.
Ignoring the people who need help to instead yell at the drugs, which doesn't help anyone.
Story 16, I hope the call taker and emergency services are really proud of themselves, for failing that family.
Dispatched in a small town. Early in the morning, I got a 911 call from a male who stated he was going to tell me where to find a dead body. He gave the address, then said I might want to take the phone away from my ear because it would be loud. I heard a loud bang, a scream, then nothing. I immediately knew who it was from his voice. I didn't have any time to try to interact with him because it happened so fast. He totally staged it. He put tarps around to make clean up easy. He was an alcoholic but made sure no alcohol bottles were anywhere to be seen. It was very sad.
What@?!?@?
Please stop the vertical videos.
Whomp whomp
Tarantulas can recognize their owner as far as I know, but it is still possible for one to panic when put into a mouth.
yeah, I mean, pretty much any pet will still bite you if you stress it out enough. Being put in someone's mouth is a pretty good reason to bite! But they probably do recognise the owner, even bees or jumping spiders can do that.
42:00 There was an Adam-12 episode where Malloy and Reed got in huge trouble for abandoning a traffic stop to respond to another call. Turns out the guy they had stopped was a serious criminal and had a warrant out for his arrest, which they would've known if they'd waited to get his information instead of just letting him go.
Could we maybe get a warning before the *really* bad ones?
Irt the story about the girl with FD and two broken legs, a lot of us Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome patients have similar stories, but with absurd dislocations instead of fractures (though we are prone to those, as well).
Operator: "Your girlfriend has a dislocated shoulder AND dislocated ribs? And how did that happen?"
Friend's BF: "She flopped backwards onto the bed too hard with one arm up."
Operator: "She...? What's making you think her shoulder and ribs are dislocated?"
Friend's BF: "Oh, they're VERY obviously dislocated. She has a genetic disorder and dislocates easily. Please just send an ambulance and we can explain it to them."
Operator: "Sir, I need to be sure that an ambulance is warranted before I can do that and I'm not convinced that what you described is possible."
After some more back-and-forth, he called his mum to drive them to the hospital and called me to go with them and explain her medical situation, since I was a human genetics major at the time and also have EDS. EDS causes a lot of secondary conditions, including Dysautonomia, which can prevent the body from regulating heart rate and blood pressure properly. With the shock and pain of her injuries, her blood pressure was super low and she was tachycardic, so they needed someone who could explain everything on her behalf. It's also just far more likely we'll be taken seriously if we have others there to advocate for us and confirm that yes, the injuries/symptoms we're reporting are actually a thing. Having some pre-med education and being able to "speak medical-ese" can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the doctor's personality, so I tend to tread lightly until I know how that'll be received. I've encountered FAR too many docs who get annoyed (as if my educational background is a threat to their authority or something) and just refuse to believe anything I say after that point. It's led to serious harm and a LOT of delayed diagnoses and treatment, over the years.
Thankfully, these days it's more common for doctors to have at least heard of EDS, but most still don't know much about it -- and certainly not enough to treat us without guidance. It's exhausting 😑
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I thought the 6' chicken was going to be a tall guy in a chicken costume.
Me too 😂
To be fair to the one lady You can still have some level of vision and be considered legally blind You don't have to have 100% vision loss to be considered blind
THEY LET HER KEEP THAT POOR BABY??? NO!
There is simply not enough text on the screen to keep up, another vertical format. Also, are you using speech recognition? Cus the text is wrong a lot of times
2:57
Hippos and pigs are actually pretty closely related, both belonging to the family Suidae.
Bloody biology nerds :P
@@Resavian If they were a biology nerd they'd know hippos are more closely related to whales than pigs.
The word "hippo-potamus" actually translates as "river-horse"
@@AlmeneBeranger I said "pretty closely related" not "most closely related"
@@gingermcgingin4106 You said they were both in Suidae. They're not. Don't spread misinformation.
You'd think 911 operators of all people would understand that 'blind' doesn't mean they can't see. Often there's different levels of blindness. Some can see colours, light and shape. It's legally blind but not like in cartoons and movies
Story 34, missing/dazed hunters, is definitely an SCP.
Definitely had the vibe of some kind of cryptid or SCP.
Or something from the Redwood Bureau
That poor kitty 😢
Has anyone else noticed that the video shows a rider galloping his horse across multiple bridges and trestles. That's a good way to break the horse's leg. Works EVERY time!
Dude anyone at the 13:00 story who decided to just “wait for Monday for a psych hold” is a lazy son of a female dog who needs to lose their ability to work in anything more urgent than a janitor position. And to be thrown in a cell for negligence. I’m so mad at our post justice system. Sometimes there are clear signs that people need help.
Story 1: ... did the lion come out of a wardrobe?
Yeah, Aslan had the wanders as a small kitten ❤
AND SHES THE WITCH!!!!!
Did Yucy Witch Wardrobe?
The God voice actor is back
If you need help because you did something stupid, don't try to hide it, they've seen it before and know faster than you can imagine. Instead, flat out admit it to begin with. "I did something stupid, and now I need your help." At least that way, you get points for honesty, and they can reasonably expect answers from you about important details you didn't know were important and won't have to just guess and risk doing the wrong thing.
Someone who thinks her baby is "fed" by semen should not be allowed to raise children.
Well the guy turning the screwdriver in his head obviously had a screw loose and was trying to fix it
Lady who somehow survived as teen was later promoted to friend partner then mom and colleague.
Pigs used for meat are actually much bigger than many people would expect. I would not have been surprised if the one guy actually saw a huge pig instead of a hippo.
Guys, this format is painful as hell. Switch back. PLEASE.
Story 32: That's one of the most badass nicknames I've ever heard, mostly because of the story behind it.
"We didn't taste it" 🤢🤣🤣🤣 so foul, so funny
The one about the man who killed his family after his wife and his mom called for help… so sad and so preventable! I hope laws / rules were changed. Name it after the poor woman
Appreciate the short, witty, snappy comments you make on the stories. It annoys me probably more than it should when narrators ramble between stories, usually with nothing especially unique or interesting to say. Thumbs up, my dude.
“Lion in the Livingroom” sounds like the title to an Animal Ark book 📕
12:16 like most things, blindness is a spectrum and you can be blind with some visibility left
If Daisy May Cooper heard story 4, she would be apoplectic with rage.
Pretty unrelated, but about a week ago there was this kid who came up to my dad, just asking him to push him on the swing. Definitely some sort of neglect there, my dad didn't mention seeing any parents either
"Grandma got ran over by a reindeer.... Shooting off some fireworks in Julyyyy.." all I can think of now 😑😅 poor grandma..
In her teens my cousin did a trial shift as a 999 call handler. One of the calls she took during that shift was from a lady who'd come home and found a s****de note her husband had written. During the call, the lady found him. He'd hung himself. Pretty traumatic for a teenager to hear on their first shift. My cousin was given a short break after that call and then told to get back to it. No additional support provided. Unsurprisingly, she decided that career wasn't right for her.
not sure about elsewhere but if you call for an ambulance over an OD in Australia we don't care, we don't want to know anything beyond what is necessary to provide treatment and we WILL NOT get law enforcement involved. Our jobs as health care providers is to get you well again and save lives, if we call the cops we break the trust and maybe next time someone doesn't call.
12:22 Number 16 is a perfect example of why mental health calls beed to be taken more seriously. Those people saw it coming and tried to get help. Imagine being afraid for your life and someone telling you thats its fine and to just wait until monday.
i'm gonna be real with u, the vertical formatting is awful to look at
Yay! OG narrator!
13:16 honestly, I have to agree with the wife here. He was obviously a danger to his family, and the operators did nothing. I know it’s not entirely ops fault, but it’s hard, knowing that the wife and mother called multiple times, begging for help that they never received…
I really don't get all the anger at the vertical format lmao. I'm here to listen to guys read stories. I do that with my ears. I don't care what shape the video is.
Some of us read instead of listening and the vertical format is kind of difficult for us.
When I hear "he lived in a rural part of our country," I have to wonder if that was supposed to be "county."
24:17 my dad used to do that with his pet tarantulas. He was just crazy and wanted to show how wacky and crazy he was. Dude even wore dresses in public and had people honk their horns at him lmao. And here I am, his extremely arachnophobic son.
Love the voices dude. I know some people complain about it personally Im a HUGE fan 😂
That was quite an emotional ride. Pets really are family!
mmm red dead redemption 2 and silly calls? i love this trope
46:00 yeahhhhh ive had days ive felt like that i feel for her, its real hard being on these waitlists forever
You REALLY need a *mood booster* post at the end of stuff like this 😳😵💫
I'd find it concerning if someone called , confirmed my name then asked if I had cut off a body part.
8:38 look, if you're going to fight while intoxicated calling 911 before you start is honestly not the worst idea. You'll probably get arrested, but you probably won't die
The man in story 14 must’ve had a few screws loose
I got to the story that ended at about the 14 minute mark (the murder/suicide), and unfortunately, I have more than one story like that from working night shift 911 Dispatch in a rural community. The worst part for me was almost always knowing them, or knowing someone that was close to them. Sometimes I got help to the people I knew in time, sometimes it got there too late.
So here’s a question… fo y’all really sit for an hour and actually LOOK at the video game graphics while listening to these stories? I thought the graphics were filler because most folks put the stories on and do other things. You’d really piss away an hour staring at nothing? Put on the stories and actually play Red Dead Redemption, man.
The story being light hearted about the guy trying to take his life by jumping in to traffic.
Best I can think after working my current job.
Guy didn't jump in to traffic because the girl distracted him from the cars.
I'm loving these! 😂
Former 911 operator. Weirdest calls that Id get that arent fucked up were from this couple. They'd call us when one of them was mad at the other 99% of the time, it was them fighting over the custody of a monkey they owned.
"Grandma got kicked by a deer" Not quite "grandma got run over by a reindeer," but pretty close.
A blind man can hear her. And can probably feel the heat from her body. Everyone with a disability can tell you that and it’s his house so he knows his way around.
I had a guy call in telling me the gates of hell are in Indiana and a grandson called in to report that while sitting on the toilet, his grandma fell through the second floor to the first floor, still on the toilet.
I usually love your content,and I love how you’ve always been really receptive towards criticism,however so many ppl have been asking to get rid of vertical format for the last while and there’s radio silence,it’s not a good look dude.
Please listen to your viewers
13:00 explain to me how muttering over and over again that he's gonna take his kids to heaven isn't extremely threatening?
The story about the guy who killed his whole family is insane! How could no one see where it was going???
Lost me at the murder/suicide. Too dark. Didn't bring in the WEIRD category
12:30 You're telling me they heard a euphemism for un-pulse-having the whole family and thought that was NOT a good time to be booking it down the highway???
Never put anything in your butt that doesn't have a flared base.
😓💦 those older ttys do chime loudly, using one for emergency calls 😨 new generation captel phone maybe quieter for use in emergencies.
Not a 911 operator but I am a PBX operator in a hospital. Our policy is we have no advice nurses because we cannot give medical advice over the phone so it's up to your discretion if you wanna come to the emergency room. We've gotten a few odd calls, my coworker and I, but there was one call I was so dumbfounded by.
Dude calls saying something about Viagra and his well you know what wasn't becoming erect and figuring out what to do.... I just told him I'd transfer him to the emergency room because sometimes talking with the kinds of people we get is very frustrating. He never called back like majority of people do so idk what he did.
YESSS. His real voice is back!!!
i love the depressing stories, they are the most interesting. in a morbid way
The stories about Florida did not surprise me. I lived in Florida during those, and I was friends with their family.
At 28:23, Dude, my BF has been my SO for more than five years. He has NO idea when my birthday is. In fact, I was married for 17 years and my best girlfriend reminded my husband every year because he couldnt remember and would cry and want sympathy from me when he forgot.
wtf, do they not own a calendar?
Not a 911 operator but i do have this story, i was getting ready for bed, it was about 10 o clock at night when i heard the doorbell ringing, so I opened my door and saw an old woman like..she was probrably in her mid 80’s, dressed all nice, she had glasses on and finally she said “Have you seen the boys?” I answered “No..im sorry i dont know who that is.” “Oh..do you think your neighbours have seen them?” “No..I’m sorry there are only car repair shops around here.” It was weird because she was talking about them as if they were her kids, my sister gets woken up by all this and said “Whats going on?” When i told her she Said “Oh..Iill go look for Them with her.” I whispered in Her ear “are you crazy? We dont even know this woman.” She ignored me and went outside and actually looked around for Them, about 30 minutes later, my sister returns, not with the Old lady tho, i looked outside, but she was nowhere to be found,