Twitter saves women's life

[christiangirl]

I had to call 911 on Thursday--a car in front of me on the freeway ran another car off the road and it went spinning off into the trees. Thankfully, they picked up after one ring. Usually if anyone's going to put you on hold, they first pick up and say "May I put you on hold?" I would've screamed "NO!!" and just started talking.

I felt especially horrible when I heard the story of the little boy who called 911 for his mom and the operator chided him for "playing with the phone" and hung up. His mom died.

[aephi alum]

I've called 911 and gotten no answer. And I've called 911 for a hit-and-run where the dispatcher sent the cop to the wrong interstate. Good thing I wasn't injured!

I never would have thought of using Twitter in an emergency. (Then again, I don't use Twitter at all.) Good thinking, Mr. Hall.

[AGDee]

I called 911 once when there was a motorcycle accident in an intersection when we were waiting to turn left. People hopped out to help the guy get out of the intersection and as soon as they got him to the curb, the gas tank blew. They answered right away, I started to say what happened and the operator asked if I was at the intersection of Road and Drive and after I said yes, she said several calls had already come in and help was on the way.