When New Yorkers looked outside their windows last week, they couldn’t believe their eyes.  Flying low and flanked by an F-16 fighter jet was a 747 airplane. As the two planes approached, they saw that the F-16 wasn’t trailing just any 747, but rather Air Force One and that it was heading right for Manhattan. Their thoughts immediately raced to 9/11, and scared that this plane would also fly into a tall building, they fearfully dropped everything and ran.

Hundreds of people, both in Manhattan and elsewhere in New York, …

From an early age, we learn that 911 stands for emergency. It’s the number we call if the house is on fire, there’s been a robbery, or someone’s been hurt.
Lately, there has been a surge of young children calling 911. A few weeks ago, it was an absolutely adorable 4-year-old boy who called 911 for help with his “take aways” (subtraction). The operator, first thinking that the boy had a problem with his “mouth,” instead of his “math,” went ahead and helped. However, the call was soon disconnected once the …

There’s no doubt the emergence of OctoMom and her incredible brood of octuplets (not to mention her other 6 children) has sparked some fierce debates.
Articles ranging from her look (did she change it to look like Angelina Jolie?) to the issue of forced sterilization to a career in porn to help support her “cheaper by the dozen” (wait make that baker’s dozen +1) have emerged with everyone from Dr. Phil to Oprah weighing in.
Recently a 911 call surfaced where she thought she had lost a child (this was when …

Usually when we think of 911 calls, we think of people in distress, panicked and urgently needing help. Such was the case with the recent 911 call following the brutal chimp attack that landed a woman in the ICU with terrible facial injuries.
Other 911 calls, however, have been less bone chilling and more amusing, especially since some callers have turned 911 into a sort of complaint hotline. Such was the case when a woman dialed 9-1-1 about a wrong burger order, insisting that they send an officer down to Burger …