Don’t Be a Pocket-Dialing Doofus
Police in Ohio say they’ve had enough and have arrested a man after receiving random 911 calls for months from his apparently malfunctioning cellphone.
The Review in Alliance reports Sebring police arrested 33-year-old Nathan Hawkins on October 5 on a felony charge of disrupting public service. Hawkins’ attorney didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Dispatchers in the northeast Ohio village say they received at least 20 emergency calls from Hawkins’ cellphone from January through August.
Police say they told Hawkins that he could have found ways to prevent the calls from continuing. Police say Hawkins told them that he sometimes sleeps with the phone in his pocket and it just calls 911.
Police indicate Hawkins was warned previously that he would be arrested if they continued receiving 911 calls for no reason.
Considering there are even several apps to prevent that very thing, in the end (pun intended) it’s simple negligence.