The point of this book is to see the humor in calls to 911. This fact is clear in the title, and so it is not fair of me to write a negative review because the book does what it sets out to do. So, I'll limit myself to one comment: while nuisance calls deserve all the mocking people want to give them, taking people who are distressed enough to call for emergency help and making fun of them just because they are less intelligent at that moment than the author is not my idea of humor.

That said, why do I have this book in my library? Because included at the end of the book is the transcript of the 911 call to Atlanta prior to the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. The author, having set out to soften us up with humor, presents us with the flaw to the 911 system and a very vivid example of why we should fix it.

He tells us something we need to know and I must admit, as a society we're probably more likely to read this message in this book making fun of 911 calls than we are in a serious report penned as part of a focus group on the effectiveness of the emergency telecommunications system. Kudos to Mr. Gregory for that.

A series of transcripts of unusual 911 calls. There's one with a woman who has a cat floating in the air. A mother who wants a policeman to scare her child into doing his homework and numerous other examples of odd calls to 911 dispatch.

Ok over all some are down right funny and others I'm left wondering why they were included in the book at all. ( )