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Well if you don't have the local PD's number, what are you supposed to do?
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Directory assistance would be a good start. Or Page One of the phone book.
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I don't imagine that 911 is so overwhelmed with calls that they can't handle a simple dispatch.
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That's what everybody thinks. That's why 911 operators are buried under an avalanche of calls that cover everything from,
"Burger King won't make my burger right!", to
"How long should I cook my turkey?" and "I need help getting the ice off my windshield."
I just know that some day, I'm going to have a loved one in mortal danger, and I'm going to get a busy signal because somebody got lost and called 911 to get directions.
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This is frontier Montana not a big city. Out town has 350 people in it and that covers about a lot of square miles. The whole county is larger than some states back east ad has less than 1000 people in it. It is perfectly acceptable to call 911 in this situation. I might agree with you if it was in a larger city but that is just not the case here.