911 Operators Describe The Scariest Situation They Ever Heard Someone Call In About

"...please..."

"Got what I thought was a silent 911 from a cell phone."

"We get silent calls all the time."

"Usually I give it about 10-15 seconds before hanging up and calling back."

"This time we were really busy, so I let it go a few more seconds while trying to drink my coffee."

"About 45 seconds into the call I heard someone whisper please."

"So I end up turning my volume to max and hearing a woman whispering that she was kidnapped, and in the trunk of a car."

"I talked her through how to find and use the latch in the back to open the trunk, and the entire time I was tracking her location through a new location clearinghouse called Rapid SOS."

"The guy stopped at a red light and I told her if it stops that she should run as fast as she can and get to help."

"She was in the city, I had a pretty good idea where she was and had cops almost on scene."

"She ran into a gas station, gave her phone to the guy working there, I got the address and had cops there in about 30 seconds."

"Dude was pulled over about half a mile down the road and arrested."- FTM_PTB

Reacting In The Process Of Happening

"My wife is a former dispatcher she had one silent call that turned nasty."

"Often its butt dialing or a kid fooling around."

"So they would send an officer to check."

"In this though the residence had a current restraining order on the BF."

"So she alerts a car who books it over there lights no sirens."-

"Seconds before the cop gets there all hell broke loose over the phone."

"Screaming, 'HELP ME', thuds, yelling."

"She alerts the cop who skids to a stop in front of the door, sprints through the closed and locked door and football tackles a guy in the process of beating his GF to death."

"F-ck."- NoAstronomer

Witness To One

"I had gotten a tour of the emergency response center when I was in the cub scouts."

"They had a call come in and told us to watch what they do."

"The person wanted to report a dead body gave the location."

"They said reporting a dead body by a taxi at the convince store."

"It's a suicide."

"The operator asked how sure he was it was a suicide the caller said it hasn't happened yet."

"He was the one."

"The operator told him help is on the way."

"We heard a gun go off over the phone."

"The operator kept asking him what happened."

"Another man voice came on it was an officer asking if it was the dispatch."

"The person was dead and his phone call was still active."

"We heard another officer talking in the background."

"Everyone started stood there in shock and some people cried or screamed."

"We were escorted out and many people wound up quitting after it."

"I was too shocked to know what to say."- Kookabob

Trouble Finding The Words

"A friend answered a call about a cyclist being hit by a truck."

"Except they weren't technically hit."

"The truck clipped the cyclist who was actually standing on the corner waiting to cross the road, and had their bike wheel sticking a bit too far over the curb."

"When the truck clipped the wheel it basically sucked the whole bike and the woman on it around and between the wheels of the truck."

"The man who called it in was a pedestrian who struggled to explain this woman was basically swallowed by this truck and just disappeared."

"He couldn't see where she went and when the truck kept on going he realized she was somehow caught in the truck and was dragged a block or two."

"Thankfully there was traffic so he was able to catch up to the truck after chasing it down, because the truck driver never realized what had happened."

"Needless to say, it was difficult for the man to explain how this all unfolded."

"My friend said this man had trouble finding the words but would answer yes/no questions."

"He was obviously replaying the moment over in his mind but couldn't paint the picture by explaining."- definitelymy1account

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You See Yourself In The Victim

"My best mate/housemate at the time is a dispatcher for the ambulance."

"She's a pretty stoic person and not much bothers her, but not long after she had her son, she took a call from a woman who had spilled hot oil on her two year old."

"She said the combination of the mother's hysteria, the child's screams, and the hormones from recently having a baby just really messed with her."

"She ended up taking the rest of the shift off."

"She had so many other calls that floored me, whereas she was just like 'meh, a day in the life'.- rhllordemort

"My friend is a police dispatcher, and she once got a call of a situation of mass hysteria."

"She said she heard screaming and dull thuds."

"Apparently the person on the phone was a party guest hiding in a closet."

"A drunk guy at the party had snapped and started beating people to death with a chair."

"Two people died and a third was injured."

"She called multiple units over and they restrained the guy."

"Super scary."- i-just-draw-dragons

Just A List Of Awful

"February will be 5 years."

"Scariest/disturbing, can't really answer that."

"I work hard on leaving work at work."

"But a few things stick out."

"Agonal Breathing."

"Sounds like snoring, but to me it's the sound of death."

"CPR calls are never easy and maybe half of your callers are in the head space to do CPR on a love one that is dying in front of them."

"On the phone with a lady telling me her husband has been seeing a therapist for depression."

"She spends a lot of time, a lot of time in our world is a matter of seconds, giving me these 'unnecessary' details and final days he has a gun."

"And the next thing is her blood curdling scream because he just shot himself."

"Constant helplessness."

"When there is a true emergency happening aside from sending help."

"You're waiting and fairly helpless."- MiahWitt60

You Hear It All

"Listened to a young girl choking and a guy screaming religious stuff at her."

"She was murdered.."

"I listened to the whole thing."

" Still haunts me a decade later."- BlackIsTheSoul

Enough To Quit

"I had a co worker that worked for dispatch."

"She told me she had gotten a call from an elderly man and he said he had just beat his wife to death with a baseball bat."

"He was still on the line with dispatch when she heard a woman screaming for help in the background."

"The man told her to hang on as he placed the phone down."

"Then she heard a dull thud noise as he struck his wife again and she stopped screaming."

"He picked up the phone again and told her he was sure his wife was dead this time."

"Hearing a murder and not being able to do anything to stop it was too much for her."

"She left that line of work."- thatstaceygirl

A Family thing

"3rd had story here."

"So a fellow got called about a baby choking."

"Turns out it his wife."

"So he calmly and accurately tols her how to treat the baby."

"Then when he hangs up (obviously) he runs home, to find his kid alive."- TheBlackestKey

Though it isn't always gloom and doom, every now and then dispatchers might get a call which they laugh about down the line.

Too hot to handle

"Yo, I burnt my mouth on pizza."- Noobmaster6ix9ine_

No one is immune from scams

"Tech support telling me i got hacked and needed to pay them to fix it."- Quinten1401

It's like they're talking out of their butts...

"Ambulance dispatcher here."

"So. Much. Butt. Stuff."

"Probably my favorite funny call was at about 4.30am one morning, we’re all tired, near the end of a 12 hour shift."

"A call drops in from a young man who is really panicked."

"There are some calls that just make you sit up in your seat at the start, you get a feeling like oh shit, someone’s not breathing."

"This was one of them, just from his tone and how scared he was."

"Anyway I proceed with the usual, ask him exactly what has happened."

"He’s just saying Over and over 'my balls are gone, my balls are gone!'"

"Now I’m trying to figure out the MOI, like how did this happen?"

"Are they amputated?"

"Is there serious bleeding?"

"Nope."

"He’d been having a nice little morning wank and his balls had sucked themselves back up into his body, which I guess he had never experienced before."

"I will never forget his wail of 'my balls are just skiiiiiiin'."

"Any time I get a shitty call I think of that fella."

"They ended up popping back out before the call ended and Ambulance wasn’t required."- awhimbahweh

Better left to the professionals

"Not an operator but my brother had to call because we got a spring stuck on my tongue."

"They thought it was a prank call and sent a bunch of officers down to our house."

"My brother told the operator 'WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT LET ANYONE LAUGH WHEN THEY GET HERE....PLEASE I BEG YOU'."

"What did they do?"

"Couldn't contain their laughter and one officer was rolling around the living room floor holding his belly and I'm almost certain he had moments where he forgot how to breathe."

"I was 8 and my brother was babysitting me and asked me if I wanted my tongue pierced."

"Of course being the stupid child I was, I said yes and he put this spring on my tongue."

"It got stuck and my tongue swelled way too fast to be able to twist it off and pulling it apart was not an option because it would just get tighter."

"My tongue turned black and went numb."

"After about a half hour, he called and requested help."

"Dude, the fire department almost gave up and was ready to transport me to the emergency room because they were certain I needed it surgically removed."

"They couldn't stop laughing either, the officers were still laughing but FINALLY they got it off. "

"My parents were NOT happy."

"Also, to this day, I refuse to get my tongue pierced."- babyaccount24

Some would consider this an emergency.

"Had a guy call us on 911 from the bathroom stall of Burger King because he was on the toilet and there was no toilet paper."

"My co-worker got this call and actually called the manager at BK and asked them to bring the guy some TP."

"He’s lucky he didn’t get me, I wouldn’t have been as nice!"- Shawver83·

Dangerous kink...

"Currently a 911 operator."

"I took a call a few years ago about a man requesting an ambulance."

"He was calling from a payphone and said that his penis was in pain, so, naturally I asked why it was in pain."

"He says that him and his wife were having sex and she put his penis inside of a coke bottle and it got stuck in there."

"THANK GOD for a mute button."

"He got his ambulance, I got a great laugh."- que_quieres

Disappointing Celebrity Encounnter

"Not me, but my wife."

"Her funniest call started, 'I just got beat by Peewee f*cking Herman'."

"He did too, smacked in the face with a cellphone."- EQandCivfanatic

These calls are harrowing. Thanks to all of our first responders.

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