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911 Dispatcher Stolen Valor: HOT TAKE

Hey, everybody happy weekend. Um, so on the topic of Stolen Valor. Um yesterday we were talking about it today kind of got brought up again just now, um, but yesterday during the conversation of Stolen Valor there was a comment made in twitch, uh saying Stolen Valor is like when a 911 dispatcher says that they're a first responder. Um, It it's taking everything in me to not curse when I explain this. Um, but just to kind of simply put it. something happens don't call 911 you find your baby face down in a pool. Don't call 911. I want you to drive to a fire station and see if the ambulance is there a b if it's in service C if that's the station that responds to your house because yes, even though it's close to your house. It might not be in your jurisdiction because it's a different agency somebody breaks into your house or steals your car or shoots somebody. I want you to go drive the streets and try to find a cop to come to your house. Don't call 911. Because we're not First Responders. We don't respond to anything. We don't answer or call and send these people to your house. We don't give you life-saving instructions when we tell you to pull your kid out of the pool and start doing CPR. Don't call 911. I want you to go find these people on your own. And then try to get them to come to your house and tell them where it is and stay calm while you're doing it. Oh, and by the way, if you can also give the CPR instructions to your wife that's crying holding your dead kid in her arms. Good luck, too. Okay, that's it. I'm done.
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