Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Twilight Zone

"baby daddy" used as a pronoun today "I, you, he, she, it, baby daddy, we, you, they, baby daddies--maybe they didn't have a direct translation for that in the Latin.

That woman was trying to report a disturbance that her brother was trying to avoid, but the way she described it, I had no idea who was fighting who, or who wanted to fight who.

"My brother's girlfriend's brother and baby daddy are trying to hurt my brother. They in a car that her brother's mom's or wait, his car was, it was her mom's car. Anyways...it's a white saturn."

This RP (reporting party) also used the word "ain'tin" as in, "There ain'tin nothin' I can do about it?" Sometimes you just wish there were minimum intelligence standards for dialing 9-1-1. I've heard 4 year olds save lives on the phone, but they were intellectual giants compared to this woman.

Later in the day a woman wanted the police to come and ask someone to turn down their stereo. It was being played too loudly, and the station to which it was tuned had "illicit" [sic] lyrics. The caller asked the person to turn it down but they refused.

The caller was afraid that if she pushed any harder to get the person to change the station to something a little less offensive, a fight would start.

Who would do that? Who would play music laced with obscenities so loud that it could cause this kind, little old lady, just home from church, no doubt, to have to say something? And then tell her to go away and that the channel wouldn't be changed as long as they were outside doing the yard work today?

Who would do that?

The caller's 20 yo daughter who lives in her own house. That's who. My RP was calling to report a noise disturbance coming from her own house.

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