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Woman disguises 911 call by ordering pizza

KGET News · 55.1M views · 2019-11-23 · 2:54

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Overview

A local news report about a woman who ordered a pizza on a 911 call to discreetly signal domestic violence and give her address to the dispatcher. The coverage includes the actual dispatcher call.

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Cited as a real example of coded language used to get help in emergency calls without alerting an abuser.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2021–2026

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911domestic violencedispatchercoded languageemergency

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olalonde · 2026-08 · Reference

People also sometimes talk in coded language to avoid alerting suspects. I'm not sure LLMs would be capable to pick up on that. Example: [VIDEO]

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DoreenMichele · 2021-11 · Reference

Your comment reminds me of a video clip I saw where someone dialed 911 and proceeded to "order a pizza," thus giving them her address. She got lucky and the dispatcher was fairly quick to figure it out and didn't hang up on her. [VIDEO]

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shagie · 2021-10 · Reference

This is an item in the 911 operator game. The description of the call is [LINK] An example of the gameplay with that call is [LINK] And an actual dispatcher call [VIDEO]

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