Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail

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Drunk Dialing 911

Not sure if it is still the case, as I graduated many years ago.

But where I went to college, the hospitals had a thing where if someone came in with alcohol poisoning and they were underage, then they’d also call the cops. So, of course, what happened was when underage kids really should have gone to the hospital, their friends wouldn’t call an ambulance because of fear the cops would punish people. Luckily, while I was there, there weren’t many deaths due to alcohol poisoning, but there were more than 0.

For clarity, I wasn’t saying the people calling would get punished by the cops. I was saying the person with alcohol poisoning would be punished. But people still didn’t want to call for fear that their friend may get in legal trouble.