Tracy Residents Now Have To Pay For 911 Calls

[bijou]

TRACY, Calif. (CBS13) ―

Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.

But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allows them to call 9-1-1 as many times as necessary.

Or, there's the option of not signing up for the annual fee. Instead, they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help. ...

http://cbs13.com/local/tracy.911.calls.2.1502690.html

That's one way of ensuring that liberal programs continue to get their funding. 

[thundley4]

I read the other day that some city is considering having people that have accidents pay for the cleanup of the wreck. I would assume that would mean the broken glass, since people already have to pay for their cars to be towed.

[The Village Idiot]

Better not to call 911. Just shoot and kill the burglar and call the non-emergency for body retrieval.

[thundley4]

Better not to call 911. Just shoot and kill the burglar and call the non-emergency for body retrieval.

It's gonna crimp the style of those ladies not getting their chicken McNuggets.

[The Village Idiot]

It's gonna crimp the style of those ladies not getting their chicken McNuggets.

Now they will have to call non-emergency numbers. Set it into their cell phones.

[Celtic Rose]

Now they will have to call non-emergency numbers. Set it into their cell phones.

When I was in high school, I was taught that 911 calls from cell phones always went to the CHP, then had to be re-routed to the actual 911 line for your area.  They gave us the phone number we could use to contact the police directly.  I suggest that everybody in Tracy look up that number and start using it. 

[littlelamb]

It would cut back on a lot of unnecessary calls that is for sure

[Chris]

No it won't.

[littlelamb]

I guess your right Chris

[Chris_]

I thought most people already paid for 911 service on their phone/cell bills?

[The Village Idiot]

I thought most people already paid for 911 service on their phone/cell bills?

Its for covering the cost of having the fire department show up

[Eupher]

Never in my life have I had to make a 911 call.

I'd like to keep that string going, but Chris is right. Stupidity abounds and won't lessen just because there's a cost involved with some moron who calls 911 because Taco Bell ran out of refried beans.