WOLF!A woman from Old Town, Maine, who kept calling 911, was warned several times by dispatchers to stop making frivolous emergency calls. Police said that in just an hour, Shirley Isacson, 66, made 10 calls to 911, but “she was not reporting any type of emergency.” When officers arrived to warn her in person, she called 911 to complain police were at the door “harassing” her. When the calls didn’t stop after that, she was arrested. Her response, police say: “She tried to call 911 again.” (JW/Bangor Daily News)A LITTLE BIT DEADLYWhen Eric Bortz, 25, was bitten by his new pet cobra, he didn’t call an ambulance; he called the guy who sold him the snake. Are you sure, he asked, that the venom sacs have been removed? The seller reassured him the snake was non-toxic. But after a few hours, Bortz’s wife, thinking his seizures were perhaps not quite consistent with a non-toxic bite, summoned an ambulance to their Fair Lawn, N.J., home. An emergency physician was asked if “fragments” might have been left over from the removal of the venom sacs. “That would be like being a little bit pregnant,” said the doctor. Bortz works at an animal hospital; he studied animal conservation in college. (AC/Bergen Record)Source: www.thisistrue.com
