Call 911: Dinner & Video Games

The Kerrville Daily Times reports that a 53-year old woman called 911 twice because her husband would not eat his dinner.

Kerrville Police responded for a possible disturbance call Friday, December 18, 2009 after she called 911 twice. The first call was a hang-up and the 911 operator reported that she could hear a woman screaming in the background on the second call.

When officers came on to the scene, they found her screaming about "things that happened two weeks ago". She reeked of alcohol and she told officers she called 911 because her husband would not eat his dinner. She has a long history of calling 911 for non-emergency incidents when drunk. Although the woman had been warned several times about calling 911 when it was not an emergency, she called anyways. Police were forced to arrest the woman for silent/abusive calls to 911 service, her second arrest for this crime. The woman was taken into custody and the case has been forwarded to the county attorney's office.

There is no information on why the man would not eat his dinner.

In another 911 related story, The Boston Herald reports that 49-year-old Angela Mejia of Roxbury called 911 to ask for assistance with her 14-year old son, who would not stop playing video games so he could go to sleep. The mother called for help around 2:30 am on Saturday, December 19, 2009. She also complained that her teenage son was walking around the house turning on all the lights.

The mother was so fed up that she unplugged his game system just before calling for assistance. Mejia said she approves of athletic-themed videos, but as for "Grand Theft Auto," she said, "I would never buy that kind of video. No way. I called (police) because if you don't respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?" Two officers responded and convinced the child to obey his mother.

The video game the boy was glued to was Grand Theft Auto.

Sources:

Kerrville Daily Times, Page 12, Woman Arrested For Repeated Calls To 911

The Boston Herald, The 911 On Video Game Obsession, http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1220221