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Top 10 Non-Emergency 911 Calls
Life or death? How about, "Cheeseburger"? TIME takes a look at some recent calls to the 911 emergency hotline that were anything but
No Wedding Bells, Just Police Sirens
Commitment-phobic? Don't tell that to Clarksville, Tenn., resident Hee Orama, 34, who decided she'd had enough of her boyfriend's equivocating on the way to the altar. Orama made repeated calls to police complaining that her significant other would not make an honest woman of her. Even after being told that her single status did not qualify as an emergency, she kept calling, until police arrested her on Nov. 4. Orama had also been taken into custody the week prior for calling 911 because she couldn't find her car.
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