Woman Calls 911 With Pizza Complaint
> An 86-year-old woman was jailed after police said she called 911
> dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour -- all to
> complain that a pizza parlor wouldn't deliver.
> Dorothy Densmore was charged with misusing the 911 system, a jail > spokeswoman said.
> She told dispatchers Sunday that a local pizza shop refused to deliver
> a pie to her south Charlotte apartment, said Officer Mandy
> Giannini. She also complained that someone at the shop called her a
> "crazy old coot," Giannini said.
> Densmore wanted them arrested. Instead, police came to arrest her, and
> she resisted, Giannini said.
> It's unusual for someone to face charges for nonemergency calls,
> Giannini said. But on Sunday, Densmore kept calling 911, even after
> she was told to stop, Giannini said.
> When an officer arrived at her apartment, the 5-foot-tall, 98-pound
> woman attacked him, Giannini said. Densmore scratched him, kicked and
> bit his hand, she said.
> Densmore also is charged with resisting a public officer and two
> counts of misusing the 911 system, jail records show.
> Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Poor, brave, courageous police officer.
> I sure hope he was not hurt when this 86 year old woman 'assaulted'
> him. On the other hand, the old lady should have made her calls to
> police on a VOIP line. If she had, chances are the police would still
> be looking for her, in order to arrest the 'crazy old coot'. PAT]
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So many things about USA law enforcement these days have a sort of tinge or a smell of Nazi-Germany to them, don't they ... PAT]