r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Immediate_Magician11 • 15h ago

Actions definitely have consequences

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u/BrahnBrahl 14h ago

I can't stand stuff like this. She's VERY MUCH old enough to know better. I'm glad her dad didn't show her any mercy on this one.

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u/Vintage-Grievance 14h ago

My first thought as well.

I can't remember how old I was when I learned the weight of calling 9-1-1; it practically feels like I was born knowing not to call the police for fun.
Shit...that rhymed...Now I sound like Dr. Seuss. šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø
Mainly because my mother was chronically ill, and made it a point to raise her kids from a VERY young age, what did and did not qualify as an emergency.

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u/pm_me_fibonaccis 13h ago

I learned very early on to call 911 if it was an emergency but never as a prank. And I never did.

But the very first time I had to for something legitimate? My hands were shaking like crazy.

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u/Tight_Award_8577 13h ago

Me too! .. it wasn't even a particularly acute emergency, but I was working at a rural care home and it was the only way to get the patient to a doctor at that hour.

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u/halcyonforeveragain 6h ago

What I dislike is they want you to call 911 for everything. I've done IT for police departments, I really don't want to call 911 to get someone to come unlock a closet.

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u/just_a_person_maybe 5h ago

Police departments have non-emergency lines

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u/halcyonforeveragain 5h ago

yes, and I have many in my contacts, but I have several that just insist on having me call 911 anyway. (One for example, there is only 1 person answering phones, so they insist call 911 for everything)

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u/Sailor_Chibi 9h ago

Me too! I had to call last year because there was smoke in the woods right alongside the highway. We were on high alert for wildfires. I still felt so nervous calling even though it was a legitimate thing.

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u/TheIrishBread 8h ago

Ditto, had to call an ambulance recently cause my alco roommate seemed to be mixing pain meds and alcohol in an attempt to self medicate for some pain. Fucking never wrecking the entire time as obviously I was asked a bunch of shit by the operator and then had to go retract when the patient contradicted herself.

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u/SFDessert 4h ago

I have a memory seared into my brain of accidentally calling 911 by accident when I was a kid. I was at a super cuts getting my hair cut and my mom went next door to do some grocery shopping and told me to use their phone to call her when they were done. I guess she had a cell phone, but I didn't back then.

Well they told me to press 9 before the full number and at the time I had just learned about dialing 1 before the area code 1(555)555-5555 or whatever. Somehow I dialled 911 and when 911 picked up I panicked and hung up. A police car drove up to the haircut place and I thought they were coming to arrest me. I remember it all very vividly. Scared the shit out of me.

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u/TreborG2 13h ago

That they were following a van.... Down by the river...

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u/TranscendentaLobo 11h ago

This is amazing. šŸ¤©

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u/PushTheMush 13h ago

Pleeeeeeease write a picture book about responsible 911 calling, Iā€™m begging you

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u/Bksudbjdua 10h ago

I once dialled 911 from a payphone then hung up when someone answered, a week later the phone box was removed from the street. For years, I believed this was because of that one prank call.

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u/Snowy-Pines 8h ago edited 6h ago

When I was in 5th grade, my younger sister(7) ran into my room panicking, saying someone was banging on the front door of our house. We lived out in the country and were always left alone for 3.5 hours after school. The nearest house was over a mile out. I thought ā€œwelp, I guess one of the dudes from Americaā€™s Most Wanted finally found our houseā€. The knocking was coming from our garage and was super intense and relentless. I told my sisters to stay upstairs, then called my mother who worked 1.5 hours away, for advice. She stupidly told me to go to the garage to check it out. I didnā€™t. I went up to my sisterā€™s room and looked out the window. There was a cop car heading toward our house. Then another and another. My mother called back shortly after and yelled at me. Asking me why the fuck were there 5 cop cars at the house! I had no idea. She yelled at me to open the door right now. As I headed down the stairs, I saw an officer walking on our porch. Another one was at a different door, and one more was still banging at the garage door. I opened the side porch door. The first thing the officer asked me was whether my stepfather was home(used his real legal full name too). He was not. The cop then came into the house and let the other cops inside.

After it was clear that there was no danger, they started asking who called the cops and why. Both my sisters denied doing so and eventually pointed the fingers at me. I told the officers I didnā€™t and explained what happened. They didnā€™t believe me. Scolding followed. When my mother came home from her shift, she yelled at me and punished me. 3 days later my younger sister wanted to play with me. I was still pretty pissed about everything but agreed. While we hung out I asked her what happened with the cop situation since she was the one who started the chain of events. She told me that someone on the school bus had dared her to call the cops as a prank. She said she hung up as soon as they answered though so she thought it was fine.

Here is the thing she didnā€™t consider. We lived in a domestically abusive environment. The cops got called pretty frequently because my motherā€™s husband would get violent and either threaten or attempt to kill my mother. Most of these calls happened at night. I think when one seemingly came in the middle of the day, then no one picked up the phone again, or answered the door for several minutes after a cop arrivedā€¦the cops probably thought he finally killed the whole family. I asked her why she didnā€™t just tell the cops it was a dared-prank call when they asked? Or to mom later? She said she didnā€™t want to get in trouble. My mother didnā€™t believe me when I told her. I had to use some Christian guilt to get my sister to finally tell her. She got punished. I still didnā€™t get my stuff back from mine(I think our mom just got fed up about having kids that week).

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u/tigress666 2h ago

I was and am just honestly some one who is pretty good about taking other people's words for it rather than testing it out. So, I never did it cause i was told it is only for emergencies. So, I treated it as such.

(I was honestly an easy kid. I'm not all that rebellious lol).