911 Is NOT A Taxi Service

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Nov 11, 2009 6:20PM

Most of us have been there before: it's a late night of drinking and partying but suddenly your friends bail without telling you and you're left sitting in the corner of a 4 a.m. bar alone except for the bag of Taco Bell you bought two hours before. You need a ride home but the streets are empty and you don't have any cab companies stored in your cell phone. How do you get home? Have the bar call you a cab. Keep waiting for a cab. Walk. Call and wake up your BFF if you have to. Just don't call 911 unless it's an actual emergency. It may seem like common sense, but one man recently learned the hard way this is a no-no.

Jorge Murillo, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, called police around 2 a.m. while he was drunkenly stumbling around the Andersonville neighborhood and claimed he had been robbed and kidnapped. When the cops showed up a few minutes later, Murillo told them neither had happened. A police sergeant told FOX 32, “He really only called because he wanted a ride home." Murillo was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct/making a false public service agency report.