911

There are absolutely tons of good reasons to call 911, but there are way more totally stupid reasons to call them. A suspicious person lurking around? Sure. Someone's dog looked at you weird? Maybe not. Sometimes people panic when they're scared and frustrated, and 911 dispatch gets to hear a story about a tree someone dislikes. For some other crime-adjacent shenanigans, here are things people later discovered were illegal.

911 operators regularly end up dealing with a whole lot of unnecessary hysterics from folks that are really taking the, "better safe than sorry" sentiment to heart. Someone on AskReddit got a thread rolling about some of the most unforgettably hilarious calls that 911 operators have ever ended up receiving. 

Just because you see something you don't like doesn't mean it's an emergency. 911 dispatchers get dumb calls all the time. Luckily they're there to sift through the people having a meltdown in traffic and grandmas who think the kids on their lawn are terrorists so cops can respond to actual crimes.

This girl's going places. 

We can't even begin to imagine the thought process that leads to someone doing this kind of thing. It's utterly insane to even imagine making up a relative on social media, but trying to use that pretend relative in order to get sympathy and attention is just madness. 

This is just totally WTF?!

If you need proof that some people are totally off their rocker, look no further than here. These people's hilarious misuse of the emergency line is utterly baffling. 

A 9/11 soda display that made Coke boxes into the Twin Towers prompted many responses, most of them either disgust or references to 9/11 memes.

Most of the time, it's impossible to remain chill when you're a dog. The sheer panic of that everyday dog life would undoubtedly lead to a number of emergencies.

We can all agree that dealing with the suspicious mailman and constantly being harassed by a vacuum cleaner is definitely deserving of 911 call.