In one, a dispatcher tells officers: "Get the people out!
James McPherson, an AAA spokesman who sometimes fills in as a dispatcher, recalled a whopper.
In 2008, when a dispatcher in Shrewsbury, Mass., heard a child screaming in the background, the responding officer reported that an "8-year-old child was given a timeout and called 911".
He told the police he did not know which truck he was in but gave a dispatcher the location of the Dumpster he fell asleep in, Lieutenant Pousak said.
The Fire Department said that firefighters initially responded to the wrong address in that case because a dispatcher typed in "470 Lefferts" instead of "570," causing a delay of about 45 seconds.
In the first, a dispatcher for the Triad loves the hit man she employs but almost never meets.
"A lot of us feel responsible, a lot of us feel remorse about sending them in," said John Lightsen, a dispatcher.
He hires his own moving teams, and, in partnership with a dispatcher, sets his own schedule — a never-ending sprint of packing, driving, and unpacking.
The morning after his 17-year-old son was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., Tracy Martin called a dispatcher about filing a missing person report, described his son's now-famous attire and insisted the teenager did not know anyone in the neighborhood, according to recordings obtained by NBC News.
On New Year's Day in 1989, Sharyn Gilbert, a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department, handled a 3 58 a.m. call from the home of O. J. Simpson.
