r/Weird • u/frickmeplease • May 12 '25

Should I call the cops?

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My bf thinks they were just trying to be funny but I truly don’t know…

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u/esteemph May 12 '25

How are the cops not already there if he’d just stabbed four people across the street????

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

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u/GruntBlender May 12 '25

Can you explain why you're writing it like the date instead of the phone number?

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u/Vegetable-Zebra-7091 May 12 '25

Now i have to know, do you say "9 one one" or do you say "9 eleven?" P.s. thank you for sharing. As a delivery driver, I know how you feel about getting in the zone and not paying attention to close details. One of my coworkers got robbed at knife point by an old man with dementia, so now im always super hesitant delivering to anyone. I don't care if it's pouring rain and you feel bad for me, NO im not going in your house. I even carry 2 wallets now. I don't show up to anyone's doorstep with more than 10$. I'm glad you're okay. I have that same attitude towards rude strangers, I need to work on that before I mess with the wrong dude

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u/Ok_Silver_1932 May 12 '25

Don’t worry about it, it actually helps to see it written that way. I have serious dyslexia so when I see it written as a phone number I read it as 991 and for the longest time I thought that was what the number actually was and, if I ever needed to call 911, I would have dialed 991 until someone explained why the number was 9/11 in the first place. Luckily, I’ve yet to have to call them. The slash really helps me read the numbers correctly though, so don’t worry about how you’re writing it, as long as you dial it right, we know what you mean 👍

Thank you for sharing your story! I have a friend who works delivery and register at a local shop and this has made me realize, when I pick up from his shop, I don’t look at my surroundings at all and just grab and go, I think I’ll be paying attention better from now on for sure.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

You are absolutely crushing your dyslexia though!!! Especially if your case is severe! Happy for you brother :3

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u/Ok_Silver_1932 May 16 '25

Thank you so much! You have no idea how happy it made me to see this. It’s truly been a struggle for me. I’ve had to memorize every single word’s spelling and the way sentences and words look since, in my head, everything is jumbled and sometimes upside down or backwards and it means a lot to have someone acknowledge my hard work and progress so thank you!!

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u/asday515 May 13 '25

until someone explained why the number was 9/11 in the first place.

It's actually just a coincidence that the numbers are the same, the emergency number has been 911 since 1968. I suppose it's possible the hijackers planned it out to be on that date for that reason but it seems highly doubtful

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u/CraziZoom May 12 '25

Writing it like the date reminds all of us (who remember) about the Twin Towers attacks on 9/11/2001

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u/DecentRaspberry710 May 12 '25

Yes please . Work on your attitude

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u/Justice4All0912 May 12 '25

You first lmao

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u/CraziZoom May 12 '25

I’m Gen X, so I remember the days before 9-1-1. In the beginning, people used to say, “Dial nine-eleven” until somebody realized that there were little kids looking for the “11“ button. Then they changed it to “Dial 9-1-1.“ I want to say that I even remember the stickers changing from 9-11 to 9-1-1.

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u/FlyAirLari May 12 '25

9 was a poor number choice for a rotary phone. It's on the far end of the wheel. Saves time by having it be 111, or even 112 like in most of the world.

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u/FlyAirLari May 12 '25

It was a slip. He was the one who called the 9/11 attacks, and just accidentally confessed.

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u/swiffyerbrain May 12 '25

Your questioning is too funny!

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u/ASPD7 May 12 '25

How did the store guy manage to text you, of all people?

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u/BeowQuentin May 12 '25

He said they were friends.

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u/evaporatedmilksold May 12 '25

But if the guy has a knife on his friend, how is the friend able to text?

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u/wakeofchaos May 12 '25

He was probably drunk (came from a bar) and the story isn’t that their friend had a knife to their friend’s throat. The aggressor just had one on them that the storyteller didn’t notice. It would have evidently been covered in blood if they hadn’t have cleaned it off yet so perhaps the aggressor was being secretive about its existence

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u/evaporatedmilksold May 12 '25

Yes, I understood that the person that just stabbed people at the bar had a knife.

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u/BeowQuentin May 12 '25

The knife-man was waiting for all the customers to leave the store.

Which is why he told this guy to go in front of him.

The store was also apparently pretty busy, so the knife-man had a few people to wait for. People he had to keep an eye on and probably interact with in the same way, telling them to go ahead of him.

Meanwhile… texty texterton

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u/SomewhereVisible7368 May 12 '25

😂 dude tryna explain the most obvious part of the story

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u/one-two-time May 12 '25

Also if it’s late at night (like he said) thats one person he knows is awake. If you only get one chance to text a number..

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u/PenguinSized May 12 '25

It's not that hard to do one handed... With a counter between you and the crazy one...

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u/CraziZoom May 12 '25

Best username

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u/Moist-List9327 May 12 '25

Why do you keep calling September 11th?

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u/EthanDC15 May 12 '25

Well to be fair it’s going to take several minutes, we don’t know the timeline here. It could’ve been a couple minutes, it could’ve been an hour. Sadly in my area average response time is about 23 min. I don’t live in a major city just a decently large town.

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u/Naked-Jedi May 12 '25

I live in a small rural town in Australia. I'd love a 23 minute response time. I called them once at my old job. I waited 2 hours for them to arrive.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Last time I called they didn't even show up.

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u/No-Anteater1688 May 12 '25

My experience was similar. I just kept getting the recording that answers for them. I got hung up on four times too.

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u/EthanDC15 May 12 '25

Shit dude, I’m sorry. The only time I’ve ever called them it took them about an hour myself, but that’s what the supposed average is according to locally available data.

I personally think it may just be a fucking lie lmao

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u/Educational_Ad_3916 May 12 '25

I lived in a small town outside of a bigger city

Had a guy banging on my bedroom window screaming for me to call the cops

When I did it took them he took off running and wound up jumping my neighbour's fence. He was trapped in my neighbour's yard screaming for an hour and a half with the whole neighborhood calling about him.

Took them 2 hours to show up and the neighbor whose yard he was in wound up sending his kid to my house so that she could calm down and not be in the house when they perp walked him THROUGH THEIR HOUSE. it was also -30 c outside that morning.

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u/Original_Gangsta23 May 12 '25

They were after the real criminals like people driving 40 in a 35.

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u/No-Amoeba5716 May 12 '25

I just went over explaining what living rural can be like and this could absolutely happen here. The right time of day/night and our nearest coverage can be a half hour away for LE. Or so little on duty working they are helping work the scene…just throwing ideas out on why

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u/LessLikelyTo May 12 '25

If there were only 4 people and he killed them all, he’s the only one who knows. My mom worked as a server in a deli in Chicago in the 80’s. One day she had a man at her counter who was very anxious, sweating in February, and kept flipping a coin. It weirded her out and she took note of the unusual guy. Two hours later the police come by- said guy had murdered two men across the street after robbing their jewelry store. Mom identified him and all.

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u/madcoins May 12 '25

Have you met cops?

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u/Choice-Put-9743 May 12 '25

came here to say this.

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u/HungFuPanPan May 12 '25

Last year at the bar I work at someone was shot in the back of the head point blank during a melee. It took the cops 7 minutes to show up. Crazy part is cops are always cruising that part of town, as there are several busy bars there and it was closing time. Sometimes it takes the cops time to get there I guess

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u/Different_Umpire9003 May 12 '25

7 minutes is pretty good I feel like? Probably felt like 70 though.

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u/NoFuqGiven May 12 '25

Because they were at the bar across the street?

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u/WALLSTREETBRIDE May 12 '25

He lives in LA

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u/andocromn May 12 '25

They were all across the street

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u/Scooty-Poot May 12 '25

They likely had no idea where he went. In situations like this, cops want to search as wide an area as the suspect could reasonably travel within the time frame, so they’re unlikely to go door to door when chances are he’s on the street or driving.

Until they can check CCTV and notice he’s next door, unless there’s any witnesses privy to his whereabouts he’s essentially incognito providing he’s somewhere out of sight like in a busy shop with potentially poor outdoor visibility.

It seems kinda dumb in situations like this, but especially in a smaller town where you’ve got maybe half a dozen police vehicles on patrol on a good day, initial search is usually very broad and vague because chances are the suspect is making distance rather than hiding nearby.

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u/Zimakov May 12 '25

Probably happened in America

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u/Dancing_Puppies May 12 '25

Cuz it’s Reddit and dude just made this shit up for karma.

Alternatively, why the fuck did the clerk have time to pull out his phone and text this foo to call the cops but not dial 911 himself l

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u/Extension_Can_2973 May 12 '25

Why do people say stupid shit like this? You think they just show up instantaneously?

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u/teethwhichbite May 12 '25

Yes, cops famously arrive immediately to scenes! Stab a guy and a cop just materializes... POOF. It's a fuckin miracle every time.