Are people in general getting loopier?
A woman in Florida has been arrested for calling the St. Petersburg police 12,000 times so far this year–including 512 calls in one 24-hour period (https://newsable.asianetnews.com/weird-news/florida-woman-arrested-for-calling-911-over-12000-times-this-year-to-taunt-harass-officers-rgv6d3). Police described her calls as “vulgar, threatening, or filthy,” and combative.
Her calls were “kind of getting in the way of our capacity to help normal people who need police assistance,” a police spokesman said. Ya think?
It may be that a lot of people have always done a lot of screwy things, and it’s just getting reported much more than it used to be. I dunno. Newspapers always used to have a “silly season,” when the politics was slow and they filled up space with odd and unusual stories.
Or maybe the silly season just got longer. About 12 months long.
Sheesh! I’ve never called more than 500 times in a 24 hour period. 🙂
I wish I knew who you are.
I have not been able to reply so far this morning, but this one asked for a change, which I hope I have made- we shall see.
I read you loud and clear!
Did this make it?
It’s right here.
Why is the woman not in jail by now?
She’d just been “detained” as the nooze article was being published.
Exactly my point. Why did it take so long?
The police let it go that far? I would have thought, that after the third or fourth call, they could have sent a car over to her home and arrested her. No wonder she kept calling, and calling, no consequences or punishment was swift in coming.