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An Ohio police dispatcher is being lauded for recognizing that a woman who called 911 — and ordered a pizza — was actually trying to report a domestic violence incident.

Mike Navarre, the chief of police in Oregon, Ohio, was driving home on Nov. 13, and listening to dispatches, as he often does, when he heard a curious call.

"I would like to order a pizza," the 911 caller said, giving a residential address.

"You called 911 to order a pizza" the dispatcher, Tim Teneyck, questioned.

"Yeah," the woman responded, giving an apartment number.

"This is the wrong number to order a pizza," Teneyck said.

"No, no, no, no ... you’re not understanding," the caller said.

Teneyck cut her off: "I’m getting you now, OK. ... The guy still there?"

"Yeah, I need a large pizza," the caller said, before specifying pepperoni.


Rest of story:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...ng-domestic-n1089636


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Cool, though as this tactic becomes better known it might lose its utility.

This is one of those "advantage humans" situations that would zoom right over "the head" of a literal-minded computer... the capacity to communicate through cues, in this case through split sentences where the first word is relevant and the remaining words aren't.
 
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