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You Am Them, We are They

A Beckett-ian transcript of a self-reported drunk-driving call to 911:

Dispatch: You behind them?
Mary Strey: No, I am them.
Dispatch: You am them?
Mary Strey: Yes, I am them.
Dispatch: Okay, so you want to call and report you’re driving drunk?
Mary Strey: Yes.
Dispatch: Are you still driving right now? You want to stop driving before you get in an accident?
Mary Strey: Yes, I will stop.
Dispatch: You want to stop right now?
Mary Strey: Yes, I will stop right now.

While the driver shouldn’t have gotten behind the wheel to begin with, admittedly she is to be praised for staging her own intervention.

Via Roadguy.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 9:21 am and is filed under Traffic safety. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “You Am Them, We are They”

  1. Nancy Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 10:25 am

    “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

  2. LOL Says:
    November 9th, 2009 at 2:11 am

    HAHAHA.

    “YOU AM THEM?”

    WTF.

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