Bizarre 911 call stories are always in the news, but this one might just top the cake. Clyde Hobbs, 72, of Oklahoma City called Oklahoma emergency operators at least 17 times on Saturday to talk dirty.
KWTV reported that Oklahoma City police arrested the elderly man after his May 5 phone call marathon. According to the police report, the 72-year-old man made sexually oriented comments to the 911 operators each time he called.
The Oklahoman reported that Hobbs asked, Are you here to arrest me again? after police arrived at his home.
According to the Huffington Post, this isn't Hobbs first time attempting to talk sexy with emergency operators. Police said that the man has been arrested three times for making the inappropriate phone calls.
For his May 5 stunt, Hobbs was charged with making false reports. His bail was set at $34,000.
Check out the slideshow to see five other emergency phone call fails.
Clyde Hobbs, 72, was arrested after calling 911 at least 17 times to talk dirty.www.oklahomacounty.orgMichael Barker, 55, was arrested after calling 911 to get a taxi ride home. The man also told emergency operators that he lost his football and was standing on his head on top of a telephone pole.He was arrested for misuse of 911.florida.arrests.orgDoyle Hardwick, 57, called 911 because “his wife would not let him check Facebook in peace,” reports the Huffington Post.When police arrived at Hardwick’s house this past March, he told police that he dialed the emergency operator because he “was upset about his wife sitting next to him and not going to sleep after he gave her beers to go to sleep.”The 57-year-old was arrested for misuse of 911.
Florida.arrests.orgLatreasa L. Goodman, 27, or Fort Pierce Florida called 911 three times in March 2009 because an employee at McDonald’s told her that the fast food location ran out of Chicken McNuggets.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one," Goodman told police, according to The Stuart News. "This is an emergency."
According to MSNBC, Goodman was cited on misuse of 911 charge.
Florida.arrests.orgMichael Alan Skopec, 48, of Illinois was arrested after he repeatedlt called 911 to complain about his iPhone not working properly.“My emergency is my f***ing phone don’t work,” Skopec told an emergency operator.When police arrived to the iPhone users house he was arrested for obstructing or resisting a peace officer.
Kendall County Sheriff's OfficFifty-year-old Tennessee woman Donna Marie Nichols called 911 twice after she purchased a foul tasting hamburger from Hardees.Nichols told the emergency operator that the Hardees food “is no good” and “I only took a smile bite out of the burger and it’s nasty.”The Tennessee woman was arrested for abuse of 911 system.
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