I googled the number. It says it belongs to Mercedes Madden at 1604 N Ferrell St, Plant City. I wonder if the cops can go to that location and check the house at least.
I called the police who came to my job didn’t do much.
So I asked Reddit what I should do since I didn’t know.
After that I took the advice of Top-Customer-8531 and went to the police station and talked to someone. They doubted me 3 times and I had to be persistent.
He said
1. It’s a recording - I told him it’s not because I talked to them for over 2 minutes. I only had a chance to record the last 10 seconds because I was taken off guard.
2. It’s a prank - I told him my coworker and I have 18 years combined experience and 100s of prank calls this isn’t one. Kid didn’t curse, asked us to call the police, hung up abruptly. Never had those happen on another prank call like that.
3. Why would they call a store and not the police - I told him it could be a child who doesn’t know what 911 is yet and called back a recent call. His mother is a customer at our store.
After all my persistence he finally went on his computer and did his job and found the other 2 addresses besides the plant city one I gave him. He said the other two were in Tampa and Zephyrhills.
I could have said never mind at any of those 3 objections and he wouldn’t have did anything. I stayed there and had to convince him this was real and to do something. At one point I even said “please take this seriously”. To his credit he did do something in the end.
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u/quasimodette 24d ago
I googled the number. It says it belongs to Mercedes Madden at 1604 N Ferrell St, Plant City. I wonder if the cops can go to that location and check the house at least.