Round Rock, TX -- Police in this Austin suburb were stumped for hours by the 49 emergency calls that kept coming in from an unregistered cell phone. The caller would say nothing before hanging up, sometimes after a brief giggle. Eventually, though, police found their man, er child: a 7-year-old calling from his elementary school classroom just for kicks.
He was just doing it for fun because he had a cell phone, said Eric Poteet, spokesman for the Round Rock police The only number that would work was 911.
The phone had been deactivated. Because the phone had no account attached to it during the Nov.
14 calling spree, dispatchers couldn't pinpoint where the calls came from. Instead, they used cell phone relay towers to define an approximate area, Poteet said.
During one of the calls, dispatchers heard classroom chatter in the background and decided to check out the elementary school.
Once they found the boy, the officers confiscated the phone and called his parents, Poteet said. Will the parents have to pay the fines usually imposed on people who do this? Or will they just say to their son, Just don't do it again, okay?
Okay Mommy. Okay, Daddy. Then the boy, seeing as he knows he can get away with serious pranks because of his age, will see what else he can do, without any consequences befalling him.
Maybe not, but I would be somewhat wary at this stage.
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