911 Operator In Some Trouble For Missing a Call Because She Was Ordering Pizza For Lunch

NBC - A 911 operator in Broward County is accused of missing a call involving a man who fainted while she ordered her lunch. Francis Francois, a Broward emergency operator, was on the job in September placing her lunch order and apparently for co-workers too. Meanwhile, at the Clearsight Opticians in Fort Lauderdale, a man had fainted and the workers inside called 911 but got not response and no call back. “He started to convulse, had a seizure, fell out of the exam chair,” Clearsight’s Jared Goodman said. “I thought there would be more than one person answering the phone. I can’t believe there is just the one lady.” In the recording of her call to the pizza place, Francois is heard placing multiple orders and checking the prices of the selections at some points. The food order finally ended more than eight minutes later. The man who fainted eventually recovered and is alright.

That’s just some awful timing, because when the pizza bell rings, you have to answer it. So some old fart fainted and had a seizure while she was ordering pizza, shit happens. It’s either you eat pizza and survive, or you spend every waking second of your 911 shift sitting by the phone waiting for a call. Sometimes you just have to say fuck it, this pizza needs to be ordered, and if anyone tries to die in this time, they just weren’t meant to be saved.

The outrageous part of this entire thing is the food order took EIGHT MINUTES. What the fuck sort of order takes 8 minutes? It’s not hard to order pizza. Nothing in life should take 8 minutes, nevermind a pizza order. And who calls for that shit anyway anymore? The fact our 911 operators don’t know what the internet is might be the most troubling thing of all.