February 17, 2005

Boy plagued dispatchers with hundreds of bogus 911 calls

To be filed under deranged teenager.

A teenager has been accused of using a stolen cell phone to swamp dispatchers with hundreds of bogus 911 calls over a matter of weeks, at times talking of killing some of the responding officers he could see. [via Magicvalley.com]

"The reported "emergencies" ran the gamut, from assaults to domestic fights to heart attacks".

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