At first the dispatcher puzzled by the call:
“You called 911 to order a pizza?” Tim Teneyck said.
“Uh … yeah,” she said.
The 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…