I don't know about "nutcase", as there are a fair number of vehicle vs 
livestock collisions around here. You are correct about it not being 
considered an emergency, though. That wouldn't happen until the loose 
animal caused a head-on collision or five-car pileup.

My point is that instead of getting some available resources moving 
toward the location, they instead chose to drill me for ten minutes 
first.

It's like the found wallet, or trying to do the right thing by reporting 
a car over the side, etc. It's often pointless, because it's more 
trouble than it's worth.

I once witnessed a shooting (along with a dozen other people). Of course 
I called 911. I related the events to the dispatcher, such as the people 
dragging the shot guy out to the back pasture, the others diligently 
working to clean up the scene, hosing down the blood, picking up shell 
casings, etc.

Officers and EMS arrived, and the people gave them some BS story about a 
guy getting shocked by the electrical panel (which they believed), and 
even had one guy acting like he was the victim.

The dispatcher told me what had supposedly happened, and I told her it 
was a fabrication, and again stated that a dozen or more people had 
heard the gunshots, had seen the victim bleeding, and saw him being 
dragged off. She said "there's no one bleeding there".

Not a single officer asked any of us witnesses what we had seen, and 
they drove off giving us dirty looks for calling in the "false alarm".

Like I said, what's the point?

Will



In article <1152676941.365795.259720@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "gpsman" <gpsman@driversmail.com> wrote:

wilbilt2@syix.com wrote: <brevity snip>

I once stopped at a roadside callbox to report a horse running
loose on a highway. They were more interested in interrogating me than
in the reason I called. (Who are you? What's your DL number? What kind
of vehicle are you driving? What's the license number? Where are you
coming from? Where are you going?...etc.)

They're just qualifing your report.  You might be a psycho trying to
lure a cop to the middle of nowhere.  If you're willing to give
specifics they can check *you* out and decide how much credibility you
should receive.  Calling about loose livestock can automatically
classify you as a nutcase, depending on where you live, and probably
won't qualify as an emergency wherever you live.

Cops ask questions to learn things -and- control their interviewee,
it's a very simple and common technique, from cop work to sales work.
The person asking the questions is in control, since a person has a
natural tendency to respond to them.
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- gpsman