Reply #174: Sure... I saw 911 stop a crime in progress once... [View All]

[LooseWilly]

A fare in my taxi was trying to run a scam at Wells Fargo... when Wells Fargo called 911 five cops showed up, converged on the bank, and brought my fare out in handcuffs.

When I pointed out that the guy owed me $50 in cab fare, the cops just shrugged, and pointed out that, if the DA charged him with something regarding his attempt to scam Wells Fargo, the evasion of cab fare would probably be dropped as irrelevant.

Sure enough, when I asked one of the cops involved a couple of weeks later, he told me that the ADA hadn't bothered to charge the guy for fare evasion. Mother fucker still owes me $50. I'll never see that money.

When Wells Fargo called 911 though, the police were prompt and showed up in numbers to "stop a crime in progress".

Yeah, 911 calls will stop a crime in progress some of the time... if the "victim" has enough pull. The rest of us can fuck off...