Awhile ago there was a Lincoln Park, Michigan 911 Operator who refused to send an ambulance because the caller was cursing during the call. So when I caught sight of this tweet today it got my mind to thinking about what the conversation between Meghan McCain (who lives in New York City) and the 911 Operator who answered the phone when she called might have been like:
911 Operator: 9-1-1, what borough is your emergency?
Meghan McCain: Um, it’s not actually in a borough
911 Operator: What city is it in?
Meghan McCain: Umm, not too sure, maybe Seattle
911 Operator: Maybe Seattle? Do you have any definite information?
Meghan McCain: Well I know it’s someone who may have wanted to kill themselves 8 hours ago
911 Operator: 8 hours ago? Are you sure about this?
Meghan McCain: Of course I am! It’s on the Internet! It must be true!
911 Operator: Stay right where you are ma’am, we’re dispatching an ambulance to your location right now for your psychiatric emergency
In all fairness I have no idea how the actual conversation occurred, but that’s my imaginative one. Here are a few more of Meghan’s tweets regarding that incident:
What is she referring to you may be wondering? She’s talking about the middle tweet in this screenshot of three:
Here’s a Twhirl snippet of Rolson141’s Twitter profile from earlier yesterday:
Rolson141 seemed to tweet out his desperation to both Meghan McCain and Martha Stewart after he spent 8 hours celebrating Sarah Palin leaving office. Meghan McCain, by her own admission, found out 8 hours after the fact, but at least she took action. Although she seemed a bit undecided about what to do for a few minutes, I applaud her for actually listening to those who interact with her on Twitter.
Martha Stewart however kept it real by continuing her corporate mongering ways and showing a complete disinterest in those who continue to indulge her and keep her out of the poor house:
Martha Stewart recently made some pretty snide remarks about how Twitter was superior to Facebook. In an interview at The Daily Beast she heralded Twitter as the best thing since sliced white bread when saying:
“First of all, you don’t have to spend any time on it, and, second of all, you reach a lot more people. And I don’t have to ‘befriend’ and do all that other dippy stuff that they do on Facebook.”
I didn’t realize that listening to others, engaging people, and building relationships was a “dippy” thing to do. Does that mean that since Facebook has 250 Million users, there are 250 Million Dipsticks in Martha Stewart’s view of the world? Well there is certainly 1.2 million dipsticks on Twitter… those that are actually following Martha Stewart.
As for Rolson141, well I guess now he knows who his REAL friends are… and Martha Stewart isn’t one of them.
Meghan McCain is a writer for The Daily Beast, but did not do the Martha Stewart interview. Perhaps Meghan should take the time to educate Martha on just what Social Media is really about.