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07/29/10
A call taker at the county's 911 center hung up on a Glen Burnie man last summer when he asked for help with his sick girlfriend, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed last month in county Circuit Court.  This is a compilation of three tapes provided by Anne Arundel Police and Fire departments. The tapes are at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit blaming 911 operators for the death of a woman. There is some repetition between the first and second segments.
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And when county police officers eventually responded to Maurice Brown's apartment, they decided to arrest a man in the hallway for dealing drugs before entering Brown's home and aiding the unconscious woman, the lawsuit alleges. "Due to the negligence of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, Asha Clark suffered and died," James Clark, Asha's father, wrote in the lawsuit he filed June 24...
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Wow Emily - 2010-08-06 23:52:37
You know for someone that lives in another state you sure do whine about Md alot.Why dont you worry about your state and leave the citizens of Md alone.
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Be glad it wasn't P.G. - 2010-08-01 15:50:32
Those 911 operators will drop your call in a millisecond (and go back to polishing their nails) if they think you are "Trying to tell me how to do my job."
Your State Trooper call takers at #77 can get snippy too. I reported an accident in the median of Rt. 50. They wanted to know "North or South?"
I told them that 50 runs East to West but it was in the MEDIAN so who cares!
"Well what direction is the car pointing M'am?"
"It's on its roof spinning, Trooper, take your pick."
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Trash lournalism by the Capital - 2010-08-01 02:32:16
I'd like to publicly ask the Capital why you included this in the article --- "asked for help with his 22-year-old girlfriend. Brown said Asha Clark - a mother of five".
OK, she was 22 and the mother of 5 - What does that have to do with the facts of the story? SCUM journalism. I feel like I'm watching Denise Koch on WJZ
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Advice to 911 Callers - 2010-07-29 18:45:47
As urgent as your situation might be - being a phone thug, throwing out *F* bombs and trying to be the one in charge of the 911 call is neither intelligent nor becoming. This phone thug did not do the victim any favors, as I'm sure the District Attorney will stipulate when he throws this one out.
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911 and Police - 2010-07-29 17:06:10
I've had two or three occasions in the last few years when I felt it was necessary to call 911. The one in which I actually needed medical attention had a good outcome, so I am here to talk about the other two.
Dangerous but less than already life-threatening circumstances-both involving traffic safety in one way or another now that I think of it-drew mystifying, less than exemplary responses from both operators and police.
If you spot an erratic and apparently drunk driver looking for a place to crash or someone to crash into, or if you want to report a felled tree on a dark, wet, foggy road where speeding is rampant, ho-hum, yeah, right, okay, they'll get around to it eventually. Maybe.
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