Do you ever call the cops?

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So I called the cops the other day, and afterwards got to wondering how many do the same, especially with this crowd.

The reason for my call was a wreckless driver...errr...RIDER.
Guy on moped on Westchester, weaving between BOTH lanes of traffic (not drunk, just 'showing off'...as much as you can on a liquor sickle), blowing through red lights, cutting, at one point, across FOUR lanes of traffic to blow through a red (intersection of National Highway/English/Westchester).

So, I was curious, do yall ever report wreckless drivers or anything of the sort?
 
I call the cops for drunk drivers. When I worked third shift I traveled about 25 miles mostly interstate I would call 2-3 times every rotation. I had one tractor trailer have the drive side tires on the rumble strips about 20 yards in front of me. The guy then jerked to back and went all the way to the yellow line on the other side of the interstate. I called 911 on that guy because the *47 is practically useless, but so was 911 in this case I followed him 15 miles and finally got off at my exit. Talk about to close for comfort.
 
Last 2 times I can remember calling was for reckless drivers, before that was a DUI accident I witnessed and the driver took off so I followed at a safe distance until police arrived, and before that was an attempted break-in of my outdoor storage closet when we lived in a townhome.

ETA @Cowboy ’s story reminded me of a time about 8yr ago I was driving back from RDU area and a uhaul was towing a junky looking vehicle on a 2 wheel trailer. The vehicle was bouncing ALL over the place, swaying back and forth, pulling the truck side to side, steering was not locked, expansion joints in the road were super scary! I recorded it on my phone and showed the disbelieving driver after police arrived and was OK’ed to do so. The ~30yo guy’s jaw dropped. Trooper escorted him off I85.
 
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J R Green said:
It's reckless, wreckless would be something else.

I call the cops but when they get there I refuse to talk to them.
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whoops!

I didnt 'stay' anywhere, I was driving and kept on driving
 
I will call for disabled vehicles, debris in the road, suspicious activity, etc. but I will not call for reckless driving because there is such a slim chance of them having an available car in the area.
 
I will call anytime I think there is a very good potential for someone to cause harm to another citizen. Other than that I don’t really care.

So I probably would have called in your instance. Depends on what I saw.
 
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Pink_Vapor said:
Why is *47 worse than 911?
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The state police dispatch won't connect with 911 to put out an alert. All they do is take the description and notify the troopers then hang up. Most of the 911 operators will do both alerts and keep you on the line as long as you can to know where they are located. Add to that they are local to your county were as the HP dispatcher could be handling multiple counties. Sometimes the 911 guys have said you need to call the NCHP but not always.

Then there was the 2-3 months that the *47 number was screwed up and connected people to an administrative line in Raleigh and all they could do is give you the 1-800 number directly to dispatch to call.
 
Cowboy said:
The state police dispatch won't connect with 911 to put out an alert. All they do is take the description and notify the troopers then hang up. Most of the 911 operators will do both alerts and keep you on the line as long as you can to know where they are located. Add to that they are local to your county were as the HP dispatcher could be handling multiple counties. Sometimes the 911 guys have said you need to call the NCHP but not always.

Then there was the 2-3 months that the *47 number was screwed up and connected people to an administrative line in Raleigh and all they could do is give you the 1-800 number directly to dispatch to call.
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Gotcha, I've used the *47 so as to not tie up dispatchers when there might be a real emergency.
Yup, I'll call if I see what looks like a diabetic crash/drunken driver.
 
I've called twice.

911 when I saw a car get hit by a box truck which continued on it's way and the car took off in pursuit. After three transfers K-ville PD said they'd got to the exit where it happened and look around... I did tell them the vehicles were doing about 75 East bound on 40 and I last saw them at Sandy Ridge...

I called non-emergency when I got hit by some fool that magically locked his keys in his car and couldn't produce insurance, that went fine.

Some girl called the cops for us when a group I was with got shot at. They showed over an hour later in force and started throwing "victims" on the ground and cuffing them. I got an AR held at my head for a tense conversation.

I'll call if insurance needs a report.
 
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SPST said:
Idiot on a moped running red lights sounds like a self correcting problem to me. Let Darwin take care of that one.
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I think that youre right, but how many will be injured in doing so?


@Chdamn for example, because I know you know this spot - I was turning right from Westchester onto Lexington, one or two cars in front of me waiting on the light. This idiot, while STANDING ON THE SEAT OF HIS MOPED, didnt slow down and cut through the Tipsy's / DeBeen parking lot. He was lucky noone was backing out or anything

He was all over the place, he will get someone hurt or possibly killed in the process. Last I saw of him he was running a red crossing Main on Lexington heading towards the 5-Points area...
 
Pink_Vapor said:
Gotcha, I've used the *47 so as to not tie up dispatchers when there might be a real emergency.
Yup, I'll call if I see what looks like a diabetic crash/drunken driver.
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Yeah basically if it's something that I think would seriously cause harm to other people I'm calling 911 because they cast a bigger net and usually stay on the line. If it's just a person suspected of DWI that isn't that bad I call *hp. The tractor trailer was dangerous enough for 911.
 
Called *HP on a reefer truck driving all over 40 towards wilmington. Followed him for a while and kept giving them mileposts for a few miles and a description of truck until they said they had dispatched and i could hang up.

Called 911 on my neighbor about a month ago but thats a story about Alzheimer's and black widow spider bites...
 
I live in Durham, which *shock* has its fair share of crime problems. Last Saturday night, I was awoken at about 3 a.m. to two suspicious vehicles and behavior down the street, following a rash of half a dozen car break-ins in our neighborhood only the night before. I called emergency dispatch, reminding them about the break-ins, and they told me they had an officer in the area who they would send over right away. It took that officer 35 minutes to arrive, by which time the two vehicles and their occupants had already gone.

Frustrating, to say the least.
 
Cowboy said:
The state police dispatch won't connect with 911 to put out an alert. All they do is take the description and notify the troopers then hang up. Most of the 911 operators will do both alerts and keep you on the line as long as you can to know where they are located. Add to that they are local to your county were as the HP dispatcher could be handling multiple counties. Sometimes the 911 guys have said you need to call the NCHP but not always.

Then there was the 2-3 months that the *47 number was screwed up and connected people to an administrative line in Raleigh and all they could do is give you the 1-800 number directly to dispatch to call.
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I've usually had good luck calling *hp, but mostly to roll a IMAP truck for someone I see needing assistance or report a road hazard, like cans that fell off a truck on the interstate. Did call once for a drink driver that could barely keep it on the road. It was satisfying to see him pulled over later. Been tempted lately for done of the stupid stuff I'm seeing lately.
 
I keep threatening to buy a GoPro or some sort of dash cam to record all the stoopid and dangerous driving I see every day. Especially running red lights and crossing center line. Everyday, multiple times a day.
 
Many times, I am an amateur radio operator so I used the 'autopatch' feature of our club repeater, no cell phone for me back then,
connects me with 911 on landline via my car or handheld radio, they will route the call to HP if their responsibility.

Last time some young girl almost sideswiped me at 2AM, called 911, followed her at safe distance, she was doing over 70 in 45 zone,
cops never responded unless they went to her house, I had the tag.

I got three Rexing V1 dash cameras as recommended on the garage forum.
 
Shortly after moving out here to "the country" we observed a car stopped in the (NC) highway running out front (~ 300'). The vehicle was forcing traffic around it so it wasn't right off onto the verge and there was a church parking lot right there (essentially within about 10' or so) had they been able to move: so it seemed to me to be a vehicle unable to move actually partially blocking a lane of one-lane highway and thus dangerous to the occupant(s) and motorists.

When I called 911 ...

Can you see into the vehicle?
No, unfortunately the sun is reflecting right back and it seems as though the windows may be tinted.
Have you approached the vehicle?
No, but it is literally right in front of me just at a distance (no, you idiot, I'm not going to walk into a highway to peer into a vehicle stopped on a highway only to get my a$$ shot because who-knows-what is going on).

To their credit, it only took Granville county SO ~ 5 mins to appear: as it turned out, it seems the person did have car trouble and for some reason just didn't decide to exit the vehicle (when safe). The deputies pushed the car to the verge and, later, some friends/family came.
 
@HMP you trying to put me out of a job? Lol jk. I’ve called a few times mostly if like chad said they were going to cause harm to another.


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For those of you down in the Kannapolis area, tonight is favorable for calling the cops.

@Bailey Boat stated in my Strike Eagle thread that he's planning on going out streaking tonight.:D
 
I'm seriously trying to remember if I've ever called the cops for anything, and I just can't remember doing so.
 
Not for anything around here like noise complaints or domestic stuff, but I've called once because somebody was driving all over the road and likely to kill somebody. Looking back on it, I should have just ran his damn Capri into a ditch on the side of the road.
 
Years ago I was off on a Sunday. It.was summer time and the windows were open. Two of the neighbors were having a shouting match in the street. It was loud enough that I got woke up. I just called the local dispatch number and they sent an officer out.

One was charged with disturbing the peace. Served the bitch right.

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Several times,
One lady driving a suburban pulling a trailer loaded with debris, accelerated down the on-ramp from southbound Providence onto westbound 485, lost control at speed and ended up off the right side of the road pointed up the berm. Stopped and called 911 as the grass caught fire. She was both disoriented and looking for her purse, doors locked windows up. Pulled her out the passenger window with the help of a few other guys that stopped, mostly by the hair. I didn’t wait for the police or fire.

One guy that turned out to work at the Harley dealership in Rock Hill (as I recall), had a seizure while driving west on 485, went off the road to the left and bounced to a stop in the median. Police arrived within about 10 min.

One nice lady lost it at night during an ice storm and spun around a few times before coming to a stop Against the guardrail pointed back at traffic. Road was fine, but there is a bridge over a creek on Rae west of Providence just before the Starbucks and Nothing Bundt Cake, it was slick. Called 911 and parked before the bridge with flashers on thinking folks would use the left lane to go around. Well they did, but then pulled back into the right lane and lost it, mostly sliding by. She was getting out of her car, had to grab her and pull her out from between the car and guardrail as another car barely missed her. I moved my car, police didn’t arrive for an hour.

Tyvola near South, eastbound construction truck driver was texting and drifted into the side of the car ahead of me, overcorrected, overcorrected again, t-boned the car behind me. Called 911, left a business card with one of the other drivers, no obvious injuries and I had places to be.

Older lady decided to turn right into a parking lot, from the left lane, and through my apparently invisible Ford Explorer. That was in Pineville, 30 min response.

A couple years ago this group of kids would get high in my side yard garden, response was pretty quick for that one, but no arrests.
 
Not anymore. They never get there in time to do anything useful but strut around full of their own authoritay.
 
Much like many, I do (obviously, I started this) when I find there is a real danger for OTHERS on the road.
 
I"m in my car all day everyday. If I called the cops everytime I saw people doing stupid or unsafe stuff, I'd be on the phone all day.
 
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Last time I called the police I got blamed for something I didn’t do and ended up on a list.

I’ll not call them again, ever, unless I’ve had to actually discharge a firearm to defend myself. Then I’m calling a lawyer as well and the cops can kma
 
Back in the days of the bag phone, I was for off the highway behind a guy that was clearly drunk.
I knew the direct dial number for pdf in the form were were stunning towards so I called them.
Started on n the line with continuous position updates until a cruiser came around me and in behind the drunk.

About a decade later called because two a-holez were playing "block the highway" and slowed to 35MPH on a two lane with a 55 limit.

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fishgutzy said:
Back in the days of the bag phone, I was for off the highway behind a guy that was clearly drunk.
I knew the direct dial number for pdf in the form were were stunning towards so I called them.
Started on n the line with continuous position updates until a cruiser came around me and in behind the drunk.

About a decade later called because two a-holez were playing "block the highway" and slowed to 35MPH on a two lane with a 55 limit.

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With a post like that Samsung and Tapatalk are both likely to sue to get you to remove that tag line.
 
I have called the Police exaclty once in my life. I was driving through Portland, OR years back and was right next to an accident where an 18 wheeler just desroyed a car. Dialed 911 and have them the mileage marker. Operator wanted to have a long conversation. Told her I was driving by. Gave her my cell number and said the PD can call me later for a statement if they would like to. Never heard anything. My guess is the driver in the car did not make it. But it was their fault in any case.
 
House next door was having work done, the guy kept blocking my mailbox with the pickup truck,
we had a temp carrier as my regular guy was out on medical leave, I got no mail for a week and a 'blocked mailbox' card inside.
I left nice note on the windshield but he continued to block my mailbox.
Called the sheriff office directly, they sent a nice young deputy out, she had a nice chat with the guy.
Wife was mad that I did that to a neighbor, well the contractor was not a neighbor and I never see the home owner.
 
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