Drunken man dials 911 for beer, police say
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COLUMBIA, Tenn. -
A Columbia man was arrested Saturday for calling 911 several times during a 12- hour period.
During one of the calls, 67-year-old Allen Troy Brooks asked the dispatcher to pick him up and give him a ride to purchase beer.
According to Columbia police, Brooks was intoxicated when he made the calls.
He told officers he'd had "a little" to drink on Saturday.
"What happened is I dialed the wrong number," Brooks told Nashville's News 2 Monday. "I was trying to call a friend."
He continued, "I was sitting here on the porch when the police came and got me. It wasn't my phone either. It belonged to someone else. I gave it back because I don't want it no more."
Brooks was taken into custody for making aggravated 911 calls for a non-emergency purpose and transported to the Maury County jail.
He has since been released on a $1,500 bond.
According to police, the calls made Saturday were among 11 calls made by Brooks in the last month. Many were hang-ups.
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DeConstructor
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 14:05
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Since so many people speaking for the recovery industry
continue to claim how many people die during detox from the 'disease' of alcoholism, I would argue this guy has a valid argument of a medical emergency.
The recovery industry needs to decide what side of the fence they are on. I assume they will continue with the 'disease' ruse, as their bilking of insurance companies depend on it. If that were the case, according to their own reasoning, this person did indeed have a medical emergency.
However, should that be case, they should also be forced to defend the idea of a 'spiritual disease' which is what the 'treatment' calls for.
This line was used in another forum yesterday by an evangelist for the AA faith:
'Going it alone with "a disease that tells us we don't have a disease" is dangerous, and as the legendary Clancy I. noted, "if alcoholism is your problem, stopping drinking will have no impact on the disease except to make it worse by making reality more painful."
There is so much wrong with that statement that I do not know where to begin. The recovery industry is continuing to want it both ways. They want medical credibility, and charge for it. Then they promote their AA god, and claim that alcohol is a symptom rather than the cause of their concocted 'disease'.
NoAAUK
Wed, 08/08/2012 - 05:13
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Let me see........so you have
Let me see........so you have a dead plant that is past the rotting stage, which is cunning, baffling and powerful. A spiritual (not religious) disease that talks to you. An certified insane, acid popping, sexual predator and conman who claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and talks to God via a dead Middle Ages Monk called Bonifice. And this is all connected to a problem, which stopping, will have no impact on the disease except to make it worse by making reality more painful?
hmmmm..........which reality......the spiritual disease that talks to you, the medical disease which is really just a bad habit, or the taking dead monk which speaks for God?
There's something not right with this steppism thing.........I'm beginning to smell a rat
......and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Matthew 24:11
JR Harris
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 15:08
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This may make it into the 911 call hall of infamy.....
Please note, these are not prank calls made to 911. They are real calls that 911 released, many of them had very funny outcomes. In most cases the people who made these calls were arrested for misuse of an emergency line.
***Emergency services should not be prank called under any circumstance***
Source: http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/911-calls
Some of the more interesting calls for the AA evangelists saying McDonalds is more dangerous than the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous filled with prospects from jails and prisons.....
- A Black Man was having an issue with Subway over a $12 order for not making the sandwiches the way he wanted. So he calls 911 on three separate times to demand they take care of the situation. They eventually send the police to arrest him for abusing an emergency line.
- A lady was having a problem with getting her Chicken McNuggets at a local McDonald's. So she calls 911 three times within a few mins to complain. The 911 dispatcher sent a police officer to the McDonald's, and the lady was arrested for misuse of emergency lines.
- In one of the funniest and well known calls made to 911 that were a complete non emergency, a very angry lady calls them about an issue she was having over a $1.10 taco. She also insists that no black police officers are sent her way.
- A mother is having issues with Burger King getting her order correct, and cant resolve the situation with management. So she dials 911 and wastes the operators time by reporting this incident to them.
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
LisaMarie
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 17:51
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I called my boss at 1am once.
I called my boss at 1am once. I wanted to let him know that I would still be drinking at 7am.
Give him a heads up. I was fired..:(