SGT. DUDLEY DUMBASS

Another example of a cop who is in the wrong line of work.

WKZO News
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Girl Arrested After Cursing On 911 Call

LINCOLN PARK, MI -- 17-year-old suburban Detroit area girl was arrested recently after cursing while calling 911 and having the operator hang up on her without sending an ambulance or asking what her emergency was. The Lincoln Park girl, Adrianne Ledesma, arrived home to find her father, who had just undergone brain surgery, on the floor having a seizure.

In a panic, she dialed 911 but the line went unanswered. She hung up and called back, while muttering a choice expletive, unaware that the call is recorded even before the operator answers.

On a recording of the call, Ledesma is heard shouting the expletive just as the operator, Sergeant Robert McFarlan, answers. He proceeds to admonish the girl for cursing and in response she shouts, quote, "send me a (expletive) ambulance." He then calls her a curse word and hangs up on her.

She then called a third time and threatened to sue the officer, while asking for his name. He called her a "buffoon," hung up on her and never asked about her emergency. McFarlan finally called the police department, telling them, quote, "I kept getting a 911 call from a filthy-mouthed girl who wanted a rescue. I never found out what it was and I was never able to transfer it over to you."

When Ledesma went to the police station in person, the same operator, Sergeant Robert McFarlan, arrests her on a charge of abusing 911. The girl's father eventually got help, while Sergeant McFarlan got two weeks suspension without pay and has to attend some training classes.