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Old 10-06-2013, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by njbchbum View Post
In a Pennsylvania town up near coal country [which town I will not specify] before the 911 emergency system was in place, a call to the police at lunch time to request response for a minor auto accident was met with a recording - 'I am out of the office at this time, but if you leave your name and number, I will contact you upon my return.'!!!! honest!
I have no doubt. Several years ago one of our vacationing dispatchers was killed in a motorcycle accident in another state. When word came to us I was told to call the Sheriff's Office up there and get more information. I reached an answering machine that said "the deputy" was out of the office and would check messages on his return. It was so long ago that I don't recall the state, but it was somewhere between Pennsylvania and Tennessee.