Originally Posted by ShayRN When I worked at the county jail, a man came into the lobby of the jail and called 911. He told the dispatcher, I know you want me, I can tell by your voice that you want me
He was a frequent flyer at the jail, needless to say, he was arrested for placing false 911 calls. That night he got a hot meal and a bed. Hmmmmmmm
LOL! The funniest story that came out of our jail was: One night I got a call on the SO (sheriff's office) line - it was like 3 in the morning. A gentleman on the other end of the line told me that there was somebody that came to his house (now mind you, it was January, blizzarding and icy - keep this in mind) because he 'said' his car broke down and he was walking, he asked me to send out an officer to check it out. Ok, I dispatched my on-call officer and called the man back at 2 minute intervals for about 10 minutes until he told me, "It's ok, I have a 'friend' with me." Then I started checking on him every 5 minutes instead. Well, my officer got on scene and I did regular status checks with her. All seemed fine, but pretty soon, I heard the Sheriff himself go on duty and get out to the scene. They were out there forever (still frequent status checks of course). We were transitioning from the 'old jail' to the 'new jail' at the time, so I was the only one in the entire building because I was dispatching from the 'new jail', but all inmates were at the old jail. When she finally came back, I asked what on earth was going on. Well, apparently one of our inmates had escaped from the old jail and walked about 5 miles in this horrible, freezing cold winter night. He saw a farm house and went to get warmed up with the story of his car breaking down. Well, the poor idiot just happened to walk right into the house of one of the police officers to our neighboring town.
The officers 'friend' he told me about was his gun. When my officer got there, the poor dumb inmate was sitting in a chair and the cop was sitting across from him with his gun pointed at him. Can you imagine? Going to all the trouble to escape, getting that far, and then walking right into a cop's house? That definitely took the cake out here.
And he was unable to disengage 
. They caused a problem for us because they did not want their parents called 
They did receive a lecture concerning appropriate behavior (this was back in 1975) 
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