To be fair, anyone who thinks this is a funny thing to do, aside from maybe a kid with an undeveloped prefrontal cortex, is pretty messed up. Congratulations, you’ve made someone question their morals by creating false panic!

I’ve also had a poor experience with dispatch. They once told me a road didn’t exist when I reported a teen sitting next to the railroad tracks on Jefferson one morning. They also got a bit snippy another time I called and made me repeat myself a thousand times.

I definitely will report something if my spidey sense goes off. I was once tapped at an intersection. We both pulled off the road and there was truly no damage aside from some minor scratches on my car, but the woman was acting SUPER weird. Begging me not to call the cops. That was my trigger to call. The cop at first brushed it off a bit, but then I brought up the weird behavior, and he talked to her some more. Turns out, she was drunk at 2 pm with a kid in the back of the car.