The numbers vary from agency to agency and can be affected by the time of day, but I'd

estimate that somewhere between 20 and 40% of all 911 calls are false in one way or another.

By false, I mean mostly what we call butt dials.

Someone with their phone in their pocket or purse and a magic combination of button presses

makes your phone dial 911.

Others are people in corporate offices trying to dial nine on their phone system to get an

outside line, then trying to dial one for a long distance number, and they hit it twice by mistake.

9-1-1.

Moving past those mistaken calls, your next biggest type of calls, they're going to be the routine style,

your wrecks, your reckless drivers, your simple thefts, etc. Then you'll have the routine medical calls,

someone wanting an ambulance for standard reasons like someone passing out or breathing problems.

Then you get into the less frequent calls.

Shootings, stabs, armed robberies, things like that.

While in big cities, you'll have one or more of those calls daily, compared to the hundreds

of traffic collisions you would get, the frequency of those, they just aren't even comparable.

If you read the title of this episode, Assorted Craziness, I suppose you have an idea of what this episode will be about.

I've said numerous times on the show that we never know what kind of incident we'll be involved with when we answer the phone.

We're not psychics.

If we were, it would certainly not be dispatchers.

If you're going to try to equate these calls to the wealthiest people in the world,

they would be on par with Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff

Bezos. These types of calls rank in that 0.001%. Most dispatchers can go their entire career and never

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