Resolved Question: While homeless and in America, would you ever ring 911 from a Hot tub?

8 September 2010, 3:43 am

and request for a towel, a hug and a cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows? Source: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/strange/article_212321475.shtml Maybe this man has never gotten the memo of how 911 works, but here in the U.S. we use it for emergency situations only. That being said, this was this man's emergency. According to police a homeless Oregon man was arrested for trespassing and sneaking into a local hot tub. It wasn't the owners of the hot tub who called the police. The homeless man allegedly dialed 911 to request, "a hug and a warm cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows." Despite the fact that officers in several cities such as Tulsa, Oakland, and Norton are no longer responding to burglaries, fraud, and theft calls...Oregon cops have time to respond to hug calls. When the police arrived at the Beaverton, Oregon neighborhood pool they found Mark Eskelson naked in a hot tub. According to reports, Eskelson was sitting naked in the hot tub for around 10 hours before he began to worry about his health because there were no dry towels. When asked if he had a weapon he told the dispatcher, "My fingers are so numb they've turned into prunes. Even if I did have a gun I don't think I could hold onto it right now." Eskelson was reportedly screaming for nearly two hours disturbing neighbors who were also calling the police in a noise complaint. Officers who arrived at the scene said that Eskelton identified himself the "sheriff of Washington County" according to FOX News. As Eskelson was being arrested he said, "I just need a hug and a warm cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows in it." UPDATE: The story gets even more twisted. Apparently the man never called 911 on his cell phone but instead was transferred by 411 according to KATU, a local television station. Eskelsen was also found with marijuana and police believe that he was on drugs. (c) tPC Here's his pic: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7185439.html... Read More »

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