Joe McCain, brother of John McCain is in some hot water for calling 911 because he was stuck in traffic.
Transcripts below.
Operator: 911 state your emergency
Caller: It's not an emergency, but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic's coming the other way?
Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)
Caller: "(Expletive) you." (caller hangs up)
The 911 operator called him back:
"Hi this is Joe McCain. I can't take this message now because I'm involved in a very (inaudible) important political project. I hope on November 4th we have elected John."
So did Joe leave it there? Nope, he called them back again to complain about the message they left him (telling him that using 911 for non-emergency reasons was against the law).
Caller: Somebody gave me this riot act about the violation of police.
Operator: Did you just call 911 in reference to this?
Caller: Yeah.
Operator: 911 is to be used for emergencies only not just because you're sitting in traffic.
Wow talk about out of touch.