Is it just simply that the dog feels the TV is so important in his life that any disruption to his watching ability is deemed an emergency. Does the cat really mean ‘power goes off’, thus affecting the TV, but the cartoonist couldn’t make that work because the power going off could be an actual emergency
in some cases when that happens?
I think this may be just one of those, “Is that all there is? Meh.” comics.
The was a Bloom County comic where Opus calls 911 and shouts “There’s a woman gardening her Azaleas in Lime Green Hot Pants”.
There’s a Simpsons episode where Homer muses “Disgruntled? That’s a funny word. Do people ever get gruntled, I wonder? I better call 911 and see what they think.”
There’s another Bloom County comic where Opus is on the phone saying “I think I just ate an underripe banana and my tongue feels fuzzy”. The person on the other line says “Do you feel any stomach pain”. “No, my tongue just feels funny.” “Drink some water are hot tea and hope it gets better. *click*.” Opus says to the audience “I guess 911 doesn’t consider a fuzzy tongue high on the list of emergencies.”
So this is a dog thinking a tv outage is an emergence. My complaint is that this is the response more typical of a DEA or FBI raid rather than a 911 emergency.
Just a few weeks ago, there was an item in the German news about a man who called “112” (the European equivalent of “911”) from a “fast food restaurant” to report that his food was not satisfactory. The police told him to take it up with the manager, or submit a complaint to the corporate office. The report did not mention whether he was charged for criminal misuse of the emergency number, but he sure should have been.
I think Stan has it, but I’m with woozy. Calling 911 and telling the operator that your TV is off or power is out shouldn’t result in police breaking in with riot gear and guns pulled.
I still don’t get why the one who called 911 is holding the remote. Why doesn’t he just turn it back on again? The comic would make more sense if it was someone else (an authority figure?) who turned off the tv.
@Chak – I think that’s supposed to be his phone, not the remote.
I think that the cable is out, not that the TV is literally turned off.
In most places in the US, one or two such phone calls will get you a relatively polite warning to knock it off. Repeated misuse of 911 generally results in criminal charges, with a fine and maybe even jail time.
But … “If you see something, say something!”
In this case, Grimm is “saying something” because, since the TV is out, he’s *not* “seeing something.”
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Is it just simply that the dog feels the TV is so important in his life that any disruption to his watching ability is deemed an emergency. Does the cat really mean ‘power goes off’, thus affecting the TV, but the cartoonist couldn’t make that work because the power going off could be an actual emergency
in some cases when that happens?
I think this may be just one of those, “Is that all there is? Meh.” comics.
The was a Bloom County comic where Opus calls 911 and shouts “There’s a woman gardening her Azaleas in Lime Green Hot Pants”.
There’s a Simpsons episode where Homer muses “Disgruntled? That’s a funny word. Do people ever get gruntled, I wonder? I better call 911 and see what they think.”
There’s another Bloom County comic where Opus is on the phone saying “I think I just ate an underripe banana and my tongue feels fuzzy”. The person on the other line says “Do you feel any stomach pain”. “No, my tongue just feels funny.” “Drink some water are hot tea and hope it gets better. *click*.” Opus says to the audience “I guess 911 doesn’t consider a fuzzy tongue high on the list of emergencies.”
So this is a dog thinking a tv outage is an emergence. My complaint is that this is the response more typical of a DEA or FBI raid rather than a 911 emergency.
Just a few weeks ago, there was an item in the German news about a man who called “112” (the European equivalent of “911”) from a “fast food restaurant” to report that his food was not satisfactory. The police told him to take it up with the manager, or submit a complaint to the corporate office. The report did not mention whether he was charged for criminal misuse of the emergency number, but he sure should have been.
I think Stan has it, but I’m with woozy. Calling 911 and telling the operator that your TV is off or power is out shouldn’t result in police breaking in with riot gear and guns pulled.
I still don’t get why the one who called 911 is holding the remote. Why doesn’t he just turn it back on again? The comic would make more sense if it was someone else (an authority figure?) who turned off the tv.
@Chak – I think that’s supposed to be his phone, not the remote.
I think that the cable is out, not that the TV is literally turned off.
In most places in the US, one or two such phone calls will get you a relatively polite warning to knock it off. Repeated misuse of 911 generally results in criminal charges, with a fine and maybe even jail time.
But … “If you see something, say something!”
In this case, Grimm is “saying something” because, since the TV is out, he’s *not* “seeing something.”