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09 09 10 - 13:13 Category: .
I have a new goal in life... never to get in a car accident in Portland.
Last week I saw an accident, this week David did. I tried to report mine and received an unanswered ring from the City of Portland transportation office and a machine at the non-emergency Portland Police number. I gave up.
When I called in David's I actually talked to someone at the transportation office, and they just gave me the non-emergency police number. I decided to wade through the prompts this time...
On the first machine I hit the appropriate button, this sent me to a second machine. On the second machine I hit the appropriate button, this sent me to a third machine. The third machine was an answering machine. Thanks Portland.
It just seems a tad wrong to have machines answering for the police, even if it is not 911.
So my goal is to never have a non-emergency car accident or incident in Portland, ever. Because getting the police to assist in any way necessary for traffic or other reasons is apparently not possible.
Wait… what?! An answering machine on the non-emergency number? An even better question… prompts on the non-emergency number? That is totally strange. When I’ve had to call the non-emergency number here in PHX you get a reminder to dial 911 (for emergencies) but then a real person answers the phone. One more thing to write in the “weird” column for Portland. :)
Daniel (Email) (URL) - 01-10-’09 10:05