#10: Shotgun Willie
When you’re a 911 dispatcher, I imagine that you have to take every call seriously, because if there’s even a shred of truth in it—if there really is some kind of emergency happening—you’d be in massive trouble if you just blew it off. You’ve got to respond as though something might really be happening, no matter how ridiculous the details are and no matter how sure you are that this person is out of touch with reality.
Here’s an example of that. What are the chances that some random woman has country music legend Willie Nelson hanging out in her trailer? But you have to take it seriously, just in case there is somebody there having some kind of medical emergency. And then you send emergency personnel out there and you find out that it’s just a pile of cushions.