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why did the 999 operator not take mcclane's call seriously??


no kiddin lady do i sound like i'm ordering a pizza

she did hear the explosions in the background and should have ordered the army never mind one fat cop

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Just finished watching it again and I wondered the same thing. She was being a total bitch.


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Well in the US the police don't like to help people.

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Because of the fire alarm he set off earlier they thought it was a prank call.

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that's how i sound when ordering a pizza.



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when the lady you are talking to on the phone to Domino's asks your address, do you say the Nakatomi building in Los Angeles? LOL

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It's a 911 operator. Probably didn't take him seriously since he was "calling" on a cb radio instead of a phone. She told him to call back on a phone if it was a real emergency.

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I wonder if he'd had an LAPD badge or ID to quote she'd have at least not been so dumb as a door nail.
Needless to say, I think she should be fired from her job as front line operator after the fact.

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He was an NYPD police officer, not LAPD...

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That would be why he didn't have an LAPD badge number to use. Right?



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She was a bit too good looking to be working as a phone operator anyway. I'm sure she got reassigned to some recruiting role or something.

Too bad guy-who-looks-like-Huey-Lewis died. They'd have made a cute couple.

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He looked so much like Huey Lewis!!!

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makes you wonder if Lewis used a stage name to portray the character.

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In movies attractive women are usually treated as average looking.

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Yes, she should have been flagellated for stupidity.

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Unless she’s into that, of course

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