Cat dials 911, then orders a pizza and some beer
After saving its owner's life by miraculously dialing 911 and dispatching paramedics, a six-year old kitten named Gary ordered some refreshments for the help that was on its way.
According to Jill Fisher, the 911 operator that took the initial call, the cat had somehow knocked the receiver off the phone and dialed the pre-rogrammed emergency number when its owner, Claude Manderson, 64, collapsed on the kitchen floor.
But paramedics claim that when they arrived at the house, a pizza delivery boy was standing in the door and a Dial-a-Bottle van was parked in the driveway.
“We rushed inside to respond to the call, and since the operator could not give us any information, we didn't know what we were walking into,”said paramedic Jon Smit, who was the first attendant on the scene. “What we certainly did not expect to find was a pizza party!”
According to the dispatchers from both the pizza place and Dial-a-Bottle, they received a call from the house, but no one was speaking on the other line. But since the victim was a regular caller, they send his usual order anyways.
The only explanation for the calls was that the cat had phoned in the orders.
After delivering Manderson to the hospital with what appeared to be a blocked carotid artery, the paramedics' shoft was over, so they returned to the house to find the cat and have a slice of pizza.
“Its a pretty amazing thing what that cat did,” Smit said. “People usually forget how hard we work to keep them safe, and this little kitty not only realized our hard work, he rewarded us for it.”
Gary's heroism has earned him a medal of bravery from the city, and will be presented at City Hall next Friday.
Manderson is expected to make a full recovery, and will likely be buying Gary a fresh salmon steak.
Disclaimer: Stories printed in the Fanshawe Distorter are in fact fictious. Any resemblance to persons real or dead is unintentional and entirely hilarious.
According to Jill Fisher, the 911 operator that took the initial call, the cat had somehow knocked the receiver off the phone and dialed the pre-rogrammed emergency number when its owner, Claude Manderson, 64, collapsed on the kitchen floor.
But paramedics claim that when they arrived at the house, a pizza delivery boy was standing in the door and a Dial-a-Bottle van was parked in the driveway.
“We rushed inside to respond to the call, and since the operator could not give us any information, we didn't know what we were walking into,”said paramedic Jon Smit, who was the first attendant on the scene. “What we certainly did not expect to find was a pizza party!”
According to the dispatchers from both the pizza place and Dial-a-Bottle, they received a call from the house, but no one was speaking on the other line. But since the victim was a regular caller, they send his usual order anyways.
The only explanation for the calls was that the cat had phoned in the orders.
After delivering Manderson to the hospital with what appeared to be a blocked carotid artery, the paramedics' shoft was over, so they returned to the house to find the cat and have a slice of pizza.
“Its a pretty amazing thing what that cat did,” Smit said. “People usually forget how hard we work to keep them safe, and this little kitty not only realized our hard work, he rewarded us for it.”
Gary's heroism has earned him a medal of bravery from the city, and will be presented at City Hall next Friday.
Manderson is expected to make a full recovery, and will likely be buying Gary a fresh salmon steak.
Disclaimer: Stories printed in the Fanshawe Distorter are in fact fictious. Any resemblance to persons real or dead is unintentional and entirely hilarious.
