Day #15 - The 911 Stories.

Story #1 -. Former 911 operator here. Sometimes the calls that stick with you aren't the most physically traumatic. I once had a call from a 17 year old kid who came home from a sleepover to find that his mother had moved. Just packed up his sister and everything in the house and left while he was gone with no forwarding address or information. She also turned off his cell phone that morning so literally the only number he could call was 911. He was trying so hard not to cry and his voice was shaking as he kept apologizing to me for calling 911. He just didn't know what else to do and had no other family. She also took everything so all he had was a couple of things that he had taken to the friends house. He told me his 18th birthday was in a couple of weeks and he literally had nothing and started to cry out loud. Dislike The officers that responded took him to a shelter. I think about him often and I hope he's ok. Even if he was a kid who got in trouble or had behavioral issues, I can't imagine coming home to find your mother has abandoned you. Story #2 -. It was Father's Day mind you, had this 5 year old kid call in at least 6 times but he'd never stay on the line long enough for us to get a good "ping" on his cellphone. We were finally able to get him to stay on the phone long enough by talking about how his teddy bear was "sick". We asked to speak to his parents and he told us they were in bed and the door was locked, so we asked him to go knock on the door, he then told us he had been locked in his room. Okay, I think we know what's going on now. By this point we had an officer en route to this kid's house to go make sure everything was okay. The officer arrives on scene, a few minutes go by, then the officer comes over the radio and says "5120 back in service, the teddy bear is 10 The officer made his way up to the comm center and proceeded to tell us all that the kid's Dad answered the door wearing only boxer shorts and was more than a little agitated when he found out his son had been calling 911.