The Tennessean
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In a call to 911, the little girl said she was trapped in the trunk of a car, sending Nashville police into a scramble to find her on the highway.
When a 42-year-old man dialed those same three numbers, to say he was considering suicide, police came rushing. Both calls sounded like serious emergencies. They weren’t.
No, they were just two of the thousands of calls — mistaken dials, non-emergencies, pranks or outright frauds — that wasted the time of local emergency responders who say they can’t ignore even the least convincing callers.
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