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You probably know at least one parent who has a funny story to tell about their child playing with the telephone. Usually the story involves a little one practicing their budding telephone skills by pushing some random numbers and dialing a complete stranger. You might even have heard about a kid who somehow put the numbers 9-1-1 together and ended up babbling to an emergency operator. That, of course, is a big no-no. And for this British Columbia man, it wasn't funny at all.His 11-month-old son was messing around with a cordless phone and managed to push the magic numbers that connected him to a 9-1-1 operator. Dad was unaware of his son's activities and was understandably surprised when police officers arrived at his home. He insisted that nobody in his home had called, but when the police spied the toddler with a phone in his hand, they knew they had the right place.
Although it was clear the emergency call was a mistake, the officers decided to have a look around anyway. In doing so they discovered a rather large marijuana-growing enterprise on the premises and promptly arrested the clueless dad.
The child was taken from the home by Ministry of Children and Family Development and later released to his mother, who doesn't live in the home and claims to have had no idea what her baby's daddy was up to. Meanwhile, dad has been charged with production of a controlled substance and mischief. Mischief? I think that dad would argue that he was not the one being mischievous here.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
1-23-2009 @ 12:23PM
Uly said...I don't know the laws in Canada, but are the cops there allowed to just
"look around" when they know they weren't intentionally called and they don't have probable cause?
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1-23-2009 @ 12:45PM
Melissa said...I know in California they can just search your car at random, but in other states, like Arizona, you have the right to refuse. I don't about Canada, though. Maybe the cops smelled something funny, and that's why they "took a look around", who knows. Cops can be pretty shady sometimes. Maybe the dad's eyes were bloodshot (or the kid's!), maybe they did it just because they were on a power trip.
1-23-2009 @ 4:31PM
SKL said...I could see there being a procedure specific to 911 calls, where they have more leeway to look around. First of all, how can the cop be "sure" the kid accidentally dialed 911 - maybe it was a battered wife who is now hidden in another room. Secondly, a lot of times people are bullied or scared into "changing their story" and denying abuse by the time the cops come.
I'd say the dialing of a 9-1-1 call is reasonable cause for the cops to come in and look around. It's not like they just stopped at a random house just for the fun of it.
4-14-2009 @ 7:30PM
fred said...No, here in ontario you need probable cause for a search. However, they could have just said "we suspect (something)" and came in.
1-29-2009 @ 5:54PM
Teresa said...i know when we moved my grandmother the only thing left in the house was a phone my grandma was in another room and my son called 911 he was only 18 months at the time. a cop showed up and just laughed thought it was funny he did it. at the time of the arival we were all actually in a different apartment. (she had moved from a small one to a larger one) when we came back the cop was standing there. my son ended up getting a sticker and got to sit in the police car. he was to young to understand what he did wrong
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4-11-2009 @ 9:56PM
dogmeat said...Particularly in the case of an open ended 9-1-1 call, police do by all means have the right to inspect the property.
They do this in order to insure that it was in fact the toddler, and not the dead wife in the basement, who originally made the call.
now it's all so clear.:)