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<h2>While answering 911 calls can be a highly stressful and disturbing job, sometimes the reasons people call for help can be so funny that it&#39;s hard to remain professional over the phone...</h2><p>Freak accidents or non-emergencies that people somehow deem a dire situation can sometimes cause even a 911 operator to laugh. As long as everyone is safe and no one is seriously injured, &quot;the time that guy called 911 because he thought his own reflection was a ghost&quot; can be a fondly remembered staff discussion. Between regular shifts full of tragic and upsetting events, a funny story for emergency dispatchers definitely stands out. &quot;No sir, that is not an alien invasion it&#39;s just a palm tree-shaped cell tower.&quot;</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kzwgf4/to_any_911_call_operators_what_is_the_funniest/">Reddit</a> user asked 911 operators, &quot;What is the funniest 911 call you&#39;ve ever had?&quot; people were ready to share the strangest and most hilarious emergencies they heard on the job.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>My kid worked for animal control, we are eating dinner and 911 dispatch calls him. Some panicked lady had called 911 about an owl in a tree that couldn&rsquo;t fly. It had been sitting in the tree for a half hour not moving. Of course it was just before dusk and the owl was just waiting for dark so it could go hunt for dinner. - canoe52</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>A guy calls from a payphone to complain that he has a pipe wrench stuck up his butt and he needed an ambulance. He gave his location as the corner where the payphone was located. I asked him if he could tell me his appearance so I could be sure the medics could find him. His response, &quot;look dude, I&#39;ll be the only guy on the corner with a pipe wrench in his butt.&quot; I couldn&#39;t argue with that... - nlderek</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>She saw a type of bird she had never seen before. - a_balletdancer</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>Picked up the phone to what sounded like a whole car of very panicked people all yelling at once. After asking what was wrong several times I finally heard someone yell &quot;a deer! There&#39;s a deer in somebody&#39;s yard, y&#39;all gotta come pick it up!&quot; Thinking it was a dead deer/road kill I said an animal control officer would come pick up the body soon. And a kid in the background starts bawling saying the officer was gonna kill it! So I paused for a second and asked is the deer alive? What is it doing? Someone far away from the phone yelled &quot;its just sitting there in the yard! So I said &quot;Yeah this is Texas. He lives there. Just don&#39;t touch him or get too close and y&#39;all will be ok.&quot; Literally not even 5 minutes later we got a call from another tourist about a deer chasing a family after they tried to take a selfie with it -domods</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I got a 911 call and I couldn&#39;t understand the caller. He was slurring his words. I knew he was calling from a bar so I asked if he&#39;d been drinking and after asking many times I asking, I was able to determine that he wanted the police, not an ambulance. He wanted to file assault charges because a woman pulled his tongue. I asked, &quot;how was she able to pull your tongue?&quot; and he said, &quot;because I stuck it out at her.&quot; I had to keep muting the call because I was laughing so hard. - Sooperdiz</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>My late aunt once called 911 because my uncle wouldn&#39;t change the fan that was blowing on her. Because it was a small community in NE Michigan, the police laughed and came out and changed the fan. - barrel-getya</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Once received a call from a guy freaking out because he caught a possum in his house. I asked him which room he was able to confine the animal and he didn&#39;t tell me which room, but said he trapped it in a microwave. I had many questions. - giga_impact03</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>At a long term care facility I worked at one of our residents called 911 with the phone in her room because she didn&#39;t get ketchup with her lunch. Not kidding. The sherrif&#39;s office called back to let the nurses know what she&#39;d done while I was standing right there. I&#39;ve never laughed so hard at work. - dammit_jen</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>ER nurse here. I&rsquo;ve had multiple, MULTIPLE patients call 911 from inside the ER for various reasons, slights, and deficiencies, imagined and real. Examples:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Gentleman calls 911 from a room in the ER to tell the dispatcher that the doctor didn&rsquo;t believe his story about how the bottle of shampoo ended up in his rectum. He reported feeling, quote, Disrespected.</p> </li> <li> <p>An elderly, very confused woman called the police to report that we&rsquo;d removed her bobby pins, thus letting her hair down, in the course of preparing her for a CT scan of her head. Now her hair was a mess.</p> </li> <li> <p>An individual well-known to my institution would regularly call 911 to request ambulance transport from the lobby of the ER if directed there for triage rather than being taken directly to a room. He&rsquo;d also call 911 and request an ambulance to retrieve him as soon as he was discharged. Usually, to take him to a different hospital.</p> </li> <li> <p>A very drunk woman called 911 from the bathroom of the ER to report being kidnapped from the party she&rsquo;d been attending. Kidnapped by EMS. Because she&rsquo;d fallen into a window and sliced her scalp open. - benzodiazaqueen</p> </li> </ol> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>One time I went to a local library to do work as my home was filled with loud guests. I&rsquo;m there for a couple hours and I saw I had 25 mins left. So I packed all my stuff up and brought it to the bathroom so I could not leave my stuff unattended and the immediately just leave.</p> <p>Y&rsquo;all they locked me in.</p> <p>The librarians thought I left. The whole place was empty and dark. I walked right out the front door, which was locked, and triggered the alarm. Now not to throw race into into it but I&rsquo;m a big Latino man in a very very white and upper class part of my state. So there was a real sense of fear I had lol. I didn&rsquo;t want to be caught driving away from this scene in case any Karens were peeping out their windows.</p> <p>I had to call the cops on myself and explain that I got locked in the library while taking a sh*t and the operator is dying. Cops show up and one of them goes, so you like breaking in and taking sh*ts huh? I went white as a ghost and started immediately bumbling my words. They brought the whole department out because they thought it was the funniest sh*t. Thankfully they were cool and just laughed at my dumba*s. - theyoungreezy</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>An old lady called 911 because a ghost was in her house. She was a sweet woman who apparently made calls often, so the officers showed up and pretended to arrest the ghost so she would feel better. - SharenDodge</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was a kid, our elderly neighbor would call 911 every evening and then call our house freaking out, claiming that there was a giant snake on the edge of our roof.</p> <p>After a while it was discovered that the setting sun was hitting the gutter at just the right angle to make it look somewhat like...well, like a giant snake on the edge of our roof. - schoonerw</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Woman calls up to allege that her car has been sexually soiled by a car washer. She had left her car with a valet service while she was shopping, picked it up and drove it home before she noticed a white mark on her passenger seat. She&rsquo;s convinced, so she calls the police to report it. Operator asked if she had complained to the company, which she had. They had advised her that the soap they use for fabrics sometimes leaves a mark when it dries and if she just gives it a quick rub, it will go. She then tells the operator that she knows the company is lying because she put her finger on it and then tasted it, and she &ldquo;knows very well what it tastes like.&rdquo; Somehow the operator convinced her to complain further to the valeting company and ended the call before falling off his chair laughing. - SmartMarty85</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Woman called to report seeing a shark in the ocean.</p> <p>Yes, ma&#39;am. That is where we keep them. - que_he_hecho</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>We occasionally have people call in, concerned that their local convenience store is locked and they can get in (&ldquo;Well ma&rsquo;am that just means the clerk is using the restroom.&rdquo; &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been gone over five minutes!&rdquo; &ldquo;Some things take longer than others.&rdquo;)</p> <p>We&rsquo;ve had people wanting police because those a-hole McDonald&rsquo;s employees refused to sell them a whopper.</p> <p>My favorite though was the woman who was spelling out a name for us, using her own special brand of phonetics...</p> <p>D like Dinosaur O like Oh my god! N like Nuh-Unh - MrIiams</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>One day, I get a medic call for a guy wanting an ambulance because he has hemorrhoids. I try to get more information from him like his name, phone number, and where he&#39;s located. I get all of that he starts screaming &quot;MY AS*HOLE, MY AS*HOLE&quot;. During his screams, I turn to my trainee and blankly stare at her. That was about 6 years ago. We still joke about it to this day. - reelin5</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

911 operators share the 16 funniest calls they've ever received.

While answering 911 calls can be a highly stressful and disturbing job, sometimes the reasons people call for help can be so funny that it&#39;s hard to remain professional over the phone...Freak accidents or non-emergencies that people somehow deem a dire situation can sometimes cause even a 911 operator to laugh. As long as everyone is safe and no one is seriously injured, &quot;the time that guy called 911 because he thought his own reflection was a ghost&quot; can be a fondly remembered staff discussion. Between regular shifts full of tragic and upsetting events, a funny story for emergency dispatchers definitely stands out. &quot;No sir, that is not an alien invasion it&#39;s just a palm tree-shaped cell tower.&quot;So, when a Reddit user asked 911 operators, &quot;What is the funniest 911 call you&#39;ve ever had?&quot; people were ready to share the strangest and most hilarious emergencies they heard on the job.1. My kid worked for animal control, we are eating dinner and 911 dispatch calls him. Some panicked lady had called 911 about an owl in a tree that couldn&rsquo;t fly. It had been sitting in the tree for a half hour not moving. Of course it was just before dusk and the owl was just waiting for dark so it could go hunt for dinner. - canoe52 2. A guy calls from a payphone to complain that he has a pipe wrench stuck up his butt and he needed an ambulance. He gave his location as the corner where the payphone was located. I asked him if he could tell me his appearance so I could be sure the medics could find him. His response, &quot;look dude, I&#39;ll be the only guy on the corner with a pipe wrench in his butt.&quot; I couldn&#39;t argue with that... - nlderek  3. She saw a type of bird she had never seen before. - a_balletdancer 4. Picked up the phone to what sounded like a whole car of very panicked people all yelling at once. After asking what was wrong several times I finally heard someone yell &quot;a deer! There&#39;s a deer in somebody&#39;s yard, y&#39;all gotta come pick it up!&quot; Thinking it was a dead deer/road kill I said an animal control officer would come pick up the body soon. And a kid in the background starts bawling saying the officer was gonna kill it! So I paused for a second and asked is the deer alive? What is it doing? Someone far away from the phone yelled &quot;its just sitting there in the yard! So I said &quot;Yeah this is Texas. He lives there. Just don&#39;t touch him or get too close and y&#39;all will be ok.&quot; Literally not even 5 minutes later we got a call from another tourist about a deer chasing a family after they tried to take a selfie with it -domods 5. I got a 911 call and I couldn&#39;t understand the caller. He was slurring his words. I knew he was calling from a bar so I asked if he&#39;d been drinking and after asking many times I asking, I was able to determine that he wanted the police, not an ambulance. He wanted to file assault charges because a woman pulled his tongue. I asked, &quot;how was she able to pull your tongue?&quot; and he said, &quot;because I stuck it out at her.&quot; I had to keep muting the call because I was laughing so hard. - Sooperdiz 6. My late aunt once called 911 because my uncle wouldn&#39;t change the fan that was blowing on her. Because it was a small community in NE Michigan, the police laughed and came out and changed the fan. - barrel-getya 7. Once received a call from a guy freaking out because he caught a possum in his house. I asked him which room he was able to confine the animal and he didn&#39;t tell me which room, but said he trapped it in a microwave. I had many questions. - giga_impact03 8. At a long term care facility I worked at one of our residents called 911 with the phone in her room because she didn&#39;t get ketchup with her lunch. Not kidding. The sherrif&#39;s office called back to let the nurses know what she&#39;d done while I was standing right there. I&#39;ve never laughed so hard at work. - dammit_jen 9. ER nurse here. I&rsquo;ve had multiple, MULTIPLE patients call 911 from inside the ER for various reasons, slights, and deficiencies, imagined and real. Examples:   Gentleman calls 911 from a room in the ER to tell the dispatcher that the doctor didn&rsquo;t believe his story about how the bottle of shampoo ended up in his rectum. He reported feeling, quote, Disrespected.   An elderly, very confused woman called the police to report that we&rsquo;d removed her bobby pins, thus letting her hair down, in the course of preparing her for a CT scan of her head. Now her hair was a mess.   An individual well-known to my institution would regularly call 911 to request ambulance transport from the lobby of the ER if directed there for triage rather than being taken directly to a room. He&rsquo;d also call 911 and request an ambulance to retrieve him as soon as he was discharged. Usually, to take him to a different hospital.   A very drunk woman called 911 from the bathroom of the ER to report being kidnapped from the party she&rsquo;d been attending. Kidnapped by EMS. Because she&rsquo;d fallen into a window and sliced her scalp open. - benzodiazaqueen   10. One time I went to a local library to do work as my home was filled with loud guests. I&rsquo;m there for a couple hours and I saw I had 25 mins left. So I packed all my stuff up and brought it to the bathroom so I could not leave my stuff unattended and the immediately just leave. Y&rsquo;all they locked me in. The librarians thought I left. The whole place was empty and dark. I walked right out the front door, which was locked, and triggered the alarm. Now not to throw race into into it but I&rsquo;m a big Latino man in a very very white and upper class part of my state. So there was a real sense of fear I had lol. I didn&rsquo;t want to be caught driving away from this scene in case any Karens were peeping out their windows. I had to call the cops on myself and explain that I got locked in the library while taking a sh*t and the operator is dying. Cops show up and one of them goes, so you like breaking in and taking sh*ts huh? I went white as a ghost and started immediately bumbling my words. They brought the whole department out because they thought it was the funniest sh*t. Thankfully they were cool and just laughed at my dumba*s. - theyoungreezy 11. An old lady called 911 because a ghost was in her house. She was a sweet woman who apparently made calls often, so the officers showed up and pretended to arrest the ghost so she would feel better. - SharenDodge 12. When I was a kid, our elderly neighbor would call 911 every evening and then call our house freaking out, claiming that there was a giant snake on the edge of our roof. After a while it was discovered that the setting sun was hitting the gutter at just the right angle to make it look somewhat like...well, like a giant snake on the edge of our roof. - schoonerw 13. Woman calls up to allege that her car has been sexually soiled by a car washer. She had left her car with a valet service while she was shopping, picked it up and drove it home before she noticed a white mark on her passenger seat. She&rsquo;s convinced, so she calls the police to report it. Operator asked if she had complained to the company, which she had. They had advised her that the soap they use for fabrics sometimes leaves a mark when it dries and if she just gives it a quick rub, it will go. She then tells the operator that she knows the company is lying because she put her finger on it and then tasted it, and she &ldquo;knows very well what it tastes like.&rdquo; Somehow the operator convinced her to complain further to the valeting company and ended the call before falling off his chair laughing. - SmartMarty85 14. Woman called to report seeing a shark in the ocean. Yes, ma&#39;am. That is where we keep them. - que_he_hecho 15. We occasionally have people call in, concerned that their local convenience store is locked and they can get in (&ldquo;Well ma&rsquo;am that just means the clerk is using the restroom.&rdquo; &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been gone over five minutes!&rdquo; &ldquo;Some things take longer than others.&rdquo;) We&rsquo;ve had people wanting police because those a-hole McDonald&rsquo;s employees refused to sell them a whopper. My favorite though was the woman who was spelling out a name for us, using her own special brand of phonetics... D like Dinosaur O like Oh my god! N like Nuh-Unh - MrIiams 16. One day, I get a medic call for a guy wanting an ambulance because he has hemorrhoids. I try to get more information from him like his name, phone number, and where he&#39;s located. I get all of that he starts screaming &quot;MY AS*HOLE, MY AS*HOLE&quot;. During his screams, I turn to my trainee and blankly stare at her. That was about 6 years ago. We still joke about it to this day. - reelin5   

While answering 911 calls can be a highly stressful and disturbing job, sometimes the reasons people call for help can be so funny that it&#39;s hard to remain professional over the phone...  Freak accidents or non-emergencies that people...