Man tells 911 slot machine stole his money

Tue Aug 5, 2008 11:17 AM EDT
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TAMPA — A second Florida man has been arrested on charges of making false 911 calls in as many days. An arrest report says 47-year-old Carlos Gutierrez was at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino early Monday and called 911 to say the slot machine stole his money. The report says Gutierrez left the casino to place a second 911 call to say the same thing.

He was arrested and charged with making a false 911 call. He's being held with no bail set.

On Sunday another man was arrested after calling 911 five times during an argument with his brother. He demanded that dispatchers send deputies to help sort things out.

And in northern Florida last week, a Jacksonville man called 911 to complain that a Subway left the sauce off a spicy Italian sandwich.

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{"commentId":2369727,"authorDomain":"electricpresident"}
electricpresident

"Can you describe the suspect?"

"Well, it's about three feet high, glowing neon, with one large arm. It keeps yelling poorly written organ music at me."

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Reply#1 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 11:30 AM EDT
{"commentId":2369824,"authorDomain":"lunartick"}
LunarTick

"Help! I've been robbed by a one-armed bandit!"

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Reply#2 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 11:40 AM EDT
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Kam in Bama

Now I can definitely see calling 911 complain about the lack of sauce on a spicy Italian sandwich!

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    Reply#3 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 11:52 AM EDT
    {"commentId":2370000,"authorDomain":"popkey"}
    Kam in Bama

    Caller: " The Hamburglar stole the sauce off of my spicey Italian sub!"

    Caller: "Help! Help! Ohhh God NO!!! It's the Burger King! He's beating me......Stop ......Please no no no"

    911 Dispatcher: "Sir please, calm down can you describe your attackers?"

    Caller: (faintly moaning in the back ground....) please no Ronald put the spatula down, no no

    Caller: (still moaning....) AHHH The Hot SPATULA aaHHH AAAAhhhh AAHHHHHHH

    911 Dispatch: SIR! Help Is on the way! We are sending Batman and Sphincter Boy to rescue you!

    Kam in Bama: " What king of fantasy land are these guys living in. That's borderline mental!"

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    Reply#4 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 12:00 PM EDT
    {"commentId":2370108,"authorDomain":"lunartick"}
    LunarTick
    Kam in Bama: " What king of fantasy land are these guys living in. That's borderline mental!"

    It's called Florida.

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    #4.1 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 12:14 PM EDT
    {"commentId":2370319,"authorDomain":"popkey"}
    Kam in Bama

    Of course! Well now then this is perfectly ok, and I'm surprised we are not seeing more of it.

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    #4.2 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 12:41 PM EDT
    {"commentId":2370845,"authorDomain":"lakeworthguy"}
    Florida_kes
    It's called Florida.

    Hey!!! I....uhhhmmm.....well, OK.

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    #4.3 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 1:28 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":2371536,"authorDomain":"zaki"}
    Zaki

    You can't make this stuff up.

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      Reply#5 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 2:30 PM EDT
      {"commentId":2375322,"authorDomain":"patter1"}
      pat-280664

      I can hardly wait for the election, someone will mistake the voting machine for a slot machine and call 911 to report a theft.

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      Reply#6 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 9:34 PM EDT
      {"commentId":2391639,"authorDomain":"jaweisel109"}
      Johnboy109

      Bet these bogus 911 calls would stop if the caller was levied a $500 fine for each call.

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        Reply#7 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 1:49 PM EDT
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