he dispatcher told the caller that they dialled the wrong number, but the caller was persistent.
Then Tim realized this wasn’t a mistaken caller…
Earlier that month, the police in Oregon, Ohio, arrested a man on a domestic violence charge. They now think the woman who faked a pizza order is rather a cry for help.
The dispatcher told that he was never taught to identify a food delivery call with suspicion; he made a decision that the caller made a mistake calling 911 to order a pizza, but with her persistence he knew something was wrong…
“If it’s your only option, and that abusive person is next to you and listening to everything you say, then by all means — you call and order that pizza,” he told The Washington Post.
Domestic violence group promoted the pizza strategy as something that may work under difficult circumstances. A PSA aired during the 2015 Super Bowl showed a woman using the pizza tactic with the tagline, “When it’s hard to talk, it’s up to us to listen.”
