My husband, Blaine, and I had an interesting experience this past Tuesday evening.
Blaine plays hockey and had a later game that night at 9:30pm. He got home around 10:45pm, roughly, and because he didn’t feel like showering again (he did earlier in the day), I asked him if he wouldn’t mind sleeping on the couch since I washed the bedding that same day.
He went to sleep after I did as he’s often wired after playing hockey, understandably, except he woke me up at 1:30 in the morning with some of the most confusing information I had ever heard while half asleep. He told me there were two police officers at the door who responded to a 911 call I made.
I was beyond confused, so I stumbled out of bed and went to chat with the officers outside. I explained to them I had no idea what was going on, and that I definitely had not called 911 because I had been asleep. They explained to me that had to come out and check out the situation regardless, which I entirely understood, and I apologized to them for the confusion and wasting their time.
I went back inside and checked my phone only to see no 911 call had been made. It took me a while to fall back asleep, only to be awoken again, hours later, again by Blaine, telling me at 5:30am that one of the officers had returned because another 911 call was made.
At this point, I thought I was losing my bloody mind.
The officers told us to call our phone carrier because it was possible that there was an issue on their end. Later on that morning, a Bell van pulled into our laneway; I was just getting home myself so I went over to speak with the tech, and he asked me if I had been making 911 calls. I told him no and that I was thoroughly confused, so he told me he needed to check the grounding wires to our landline.
We have a landline but we don’t have an actual phone we use for the landline. The bell technician explained to me that the grounding cable that runs underneath our road had somehow gone to shit and that was the culprit behind the anonymous 911 calls. My name is on our Bell account, so that’s why the officers thought I had been calling.
It was an experience I don’t particularly wish to go through again.
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