Travis Turner has a history of making frivolous emergency calls.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: State police say a western Pennsylvania man with a penchant for making unnecessary emergency calls recently complained of chest pains so he could ask medics to help him fix his air conditioner.
According to the Associated Press, 26-year-old Travis Turner, of Indiana, Pa., was charged Wednesday with obstructing emergency services and disorderly conduct.
Troopers informed the AP Turner has called Indiana County 911 dispatchers or the state police 63 times in the last three years for “minor or harassing complaints.”
He was previously charged for the same offense in December, but the complaint was withdrawn and Turner was warned to stop wantonly making calls to emergency services sans any sort of emergency.
Turner, apparently not one to heed the police’s admonition, dialed 911 again on Sunday afternoon but when an ambulance arrived, he simply needed help fixing his air conditioner.
According to WDAD Radio, paramedics informed their dispatcher that it was a false alarm and were subsequently told there was an actual, pending emergency at a restaurant in the immediate vicinity.
Police are claiming Turner’s actions deliberately wasted resources and endangered the welfare of a patient who truly needed medical attention.
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When young, cranky and crying about something unimportant, my parents would say they’d give me something to cry about if I didn’t knock it off. They never had to but that’s not my point.
This guy calls them again with a ‘medical emergency’ how about they give him a medical emergency to cry about. Fake chest pain complaint? REAL automatic electronic defibrillator gets used. Maybe even a huge dose of Epinephrine to keep things interesting. He won’t care too much about his a/c after that. He’d likely stop calling as well (permanently).