Originally Posted by
fireworksboy
Ok, I need to buy a new keyboard.
Maybe I'm completely ingnorant - why in the world would anyone, in similar circumstances call the US Consulate????? Anyone?
You are completely ingnorant. Ignorant, too
It probably comes from the school of reasons why people call 911, such as the following:
There was the guy in Connecticut who called 911 complaining that he had "specifically asked for little turkey and little ham, a lot of cheese and a lot of mayonnaise" and needed the full force of the law to fix his deli order [source: AP]. A Florida man called 911 with a similar "special sauce" emergency, then called back when police hadn't responded quickly enough [source: Reader's Digest].
And then there's Raibin Osman, the unfortunate Oregon man who had to explain to his cellmates at county jail why he was spending the night in prison: A McDonald's employee had forgotten to include an orange juice with his drive-through order. When he alerted authorities to the missing juice scandal, they informed him that he was abusing the 911 system, and when he refused to calm down, they arrested him [source: KATU News].