911 Dispatcher Comedy Hour

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Meanwhile, REAL emergencies are going on...

A 911 dispatcher has apologized after responding to a mother's plea for help with an unruly child by saying: "OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?"

The woman, identified only as Lori in Wednesday's editions of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, said she recently phoned authorities after coming home to find her daughters fighting. She told the call-taker her 12-year-old, who had kicked a hole in the door, was out of control.

After dispatcher Mike Forbess' comment, the line went dead for 5 seconds.

"Are you there?" Forbess asked.

"Excuse me?" Lori said.

Forbess, a dispatcher for five years at the Watauga Department of Public Safety, told her he was joking and apologized.

The woman was not amused.

Maybe she thought she was calling NANNY 911?