Hi folks,

It has happened to me. I'm really upset about this right now and would just like to get some views on what has happened and whether or not there's much that can be done about it.

Saturday night I went to a friends house. In my absence, at approximately 11PM my wife was awakened by the police - 4 CARS worth of police! They claimed that multiple 911 calls were made from our home phone. This is a land line that's been in my family for probably over 25 years.

So I was not there, my wife was asleep and our room-mate was in his room(away from our home phone) minding his own business. Somehow, mysteriously, multiple, not just one fluke but more than one 911 call was made from my home phone allegedly.

They barged into my house to "have a look around" calling it "routine procedure". They knocked on my room-mate's door, they scared my wife and let themselves into my home all based on these supposed 911 calls. I'm sorry but I'm not buying it.

There is a very strong police presence in my hometown, always has been. That is why it has remained a quiet, relatively safe place to call home. I think that we have been violated. I believe the police have overstepped their bounds. It's one thing to maintain a strong presence but barging into private homes and making what appear to me are false claims is something different entirely. I'm sorry but I'm just not buying into the 911 story.

So to me it boils down to three things:

1. Either someone was tapped into my phone line
2. Or my caller ID which has worked all these years has suddenly gotten mixed up with somebody out there who really needs help.
3. Or for SOME reason the police are interested in what's going on in my house.

Trust me, my life is pretty boring by law enforcement personnel standards. I'm just a regular working stiff paying my mortgage, trying to have a little fun here and there and not make any waves.

This is all very unsettling. If they have reason to want to poke their noses into my personal life, I'd like to know why. If this is somebody's idea of a prank, I'd like to know why there apparently is not a problem with that. That would be a criminal act right? I mean if I was a cop and I got dispatched to somebody's residence but the people there said they did not make the calls(remember - multiple calls they claimed), I think I would like to know what the heck was going on.

Again, I was not there and I'm glad that I wasn't because I probably would have ended up in jail for refusing to let the police into my home. I'm still gathering the facts on this one but I'll tell you right now it stinks.

At the very least, we have a public safety issue and further there may be something more sinister at hand and it's not making me feel very "warm&fuzzy". I'm just interested to learn what some of you think about all of this.

Living in The Police State

You broke it but you wanna see it shatter...