#Blacklivesmatter

✨| 18 | I love a lot of different things| intersectional feminist

[bruchaay]

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

Just to expand on this post about calling 911 and asking for a pizza to secretly ask for help:

The post is based on a Super Bowl commercial, which itself was based on a Reddit post that’s never been verified as true. 

There is no actual pizza code with toppings and shit that dispatchers are trained in. If you come across someone who has heard of the commercial, they might understand. If you come across someone who’s never heard of it, they might think it’s a prank call and hang up on you.

A piece of actual advice to help you in this situation is to dial 911, then hang up without speaking, then turn the phone off. 911 will attempt to call you back, and when they’re unable to reach you, they’ll dispatch a unit to your location under the assumption that you need help and your call was interrupted. This will work 100% of the time, whereas the pizza trick will only work if the dispatcher has heard of the commercial/urban legend.

Also, the toppings thing was a complete and total fabrication and whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves, tbh.

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Do NOT turn your phone off. 

Tracing a phone call is not an exact science. It takes time you might not have, and in a city with a lot of cell phone towers they might be able to pinpoint your location to a few hundred metres (still not helpful if there are a few apartment blocks in those few hundred metres) but in a rural area where there might not be as many towers, the possible area you’re calling from can be huge. As in, hundreds of kilometres. 

Do NOT turn your phone off. 

Keep it on, even if you can’t use it, and try and keep talking so you can give the operator some idea of what is going on and where you are. 

The pizza code is not a real thing. But that’s okay. If it was a real thing and everyone knew it, it would be pointless as a code. What is happening in the pizza code story is that an operator picks up on the fact that someone needs help but isn’t in a position to talk freely, and they work out a system as they go along. 

Every emergency call can be different. Stay on the line if you are able, and listen to what the operator asks you. And remember, that just because you might not  understand why the operator is asking those particular questions, it’s quicker to answer them than it is to argue about their relevance. We have reasons, I promise. We want to get help to you as quickly as you want it to arrive. 

[swankkat-deactivated20230101]

^^THIS. Thank you, thisdiscontentedwinter.

In reference to my last reblog about this: no, of COURSE the whole “pizza code” thing is not true. We’re not given explicit instructions on “oh mushrooms mean this and pepperoni means that.” That’s just silly. But the best 911 telecommunicators are able to think and adapt their call-taking skills quickly, and will roll with whatever’s given to them. So if pizza is a thing that is safe for you to talk about, okay, go with it and we’ll take it from there.

Also, absolutely do NOT turn your phone off if you are using a mobile phone. It will kill the signal. So if your attacker or whatever throws you in a car, or drags you through the woods, that’s it, we can’t track you anymore. We can only get a ping off your last location and try to get a K9 track or witness observation.

An additional note that not all 911 centers are created equal and not all technology is available to everyone. If you are using a tracfone or some other kind of “disposable” mobile, or if you have caller ID blocked/have a privacy block on your phone, there’s not a whole hell of a lot we can do if you follow OP’s advice. Keeping your phone on and keep talking is your best bet. The reblog above mine is actually better worded than I could have made it.

(And yes, I am a state certified/licensed Public Service Telecommunicator. Forgive me if I reblog things that might actually help someone.)

[postingwhileblack]

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

AbsoFUCKINGlutely

[goochie-mane]

When you in bed having an imaginary argument with someone and in your head they say some out of pocket shit

[tiptons-blog]

[usingtimewisely]

I think about this joke a lot.

[blkbruja]

when a black girl tells you that she’s “not the one”, please believe her.

[ohmylegz]

Or “you got the right one”, PLEASE believe her.

[blkbruja]

^!!!!!!!

[fresiaflwer]

The 12 signs and the human body parts which they rule: you’re more likely to get problems in these areas.

[greenhausblues]

Yoooo this is true cause I just found out I have scoliosis

[vintagewoc]

Naomi Campbell in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition (1992)

[eye-know]

[destinyrush]

Unarmed 15-year-old boy shot in the head by Balch Springs police officer.

15-year-old Jordan Edwards and his friends were leaving a party at approximately 11PM on Saturday after hearing gunshots. A police officer, whose name has not been released yet, shot through the passenger side window of the vehicle, in which Edwards and his friends were traveling, and struck the boy in the head. The officers were reportedly responding to a call of drunk teenagers. The Edwards family’s legal counsel S. Lee Merritt says  Edwards and his friends were NOT the intoxicated teens that police officers were allegedly called to control.

The police officer who shot Edwards was placed on paid leave.

Police claim the vehicle Edwards was in backed toward officers “in an aggressive manner.”

Sources (x/x)

Another innocent Black child was shot by a trigger-happy cop. Another family is in pain..

Jordan was a freshman at Mesquite High School, he loved to play football and was a straight A student.

Rest in peace baby boy…

#JordanEdwards   #BlackLivesMatter

#StopPoliceBrutality

[bitchycode]

[little-vvitch]

this is the 2016 apology post. reblog in 45 seconds and 2016 will apologize to you in the form of money.

[stephenraygarza]

not risking it.

[autumntipsy]

Not even scrolling past it

[thoteisha]

I deserve an apology smh

[mylittlesanity]

i was gonna scroll past once i saw 2016 but then i read it lol

[angelarecamier]

if u reblog this in 45 seconds u will meet ur favorite musician(s). no matter what. they will be raised from the dead 4 u.

[angelarecamier]

so im rbing this for good luck bc there’s a 99% chance im about to meet carl palmer (tickets might sell out but hey maybe the universe will see this)

[angelarecamier]

okay so usually i don’t believe these posts and i even made this as a joke originally but i’m meeting carl palmer in two hours. i have the tickets and everything. i know this sounds lame but it works (maybe not for the dead ppl tho :( which sucks)

[angelarecamier]

there’s a slim chance i’m seeing yestival this summer bLEASE

[thatadult]

I’m gonna need y'all to stop telling cashiers keep the change or that you don’t need it. Literally throw it away if you don’t want it. Don’t force someone to be over on their register. 3 people in a row just did that like stop being ugly..

[afondfox-deactivated20170527]

just pocket the change, they did tell you to keep it. if it bothers you that much, just set all the change aside and make it a donation to your favourite cause. make something out of a shit situation, idk.

[thatadult]

We literally can not pocket the change that’s my entire point… it is employee theft to pocket the change… we are on camera..

i can’t donate customers money lmao that’s not a thing. It’s the store’s money

[threesideddream]

just fucking do it juST BREAK THE RULES GET FIRED SO I DON’T HAVE TO HANDLE THESE PITHY COINS

[crebitordedit]

hi and welcome to our gameshow called “keep the change!” when I say keep the change, you’ll have to decide: the change isn’t your money so you can’t keep it, it’s no longer the customer’s money because they’re gone, it’s not the store’s money because that’ll mess up your till but it’s also not not the store’s money because you can’t give it away! And no matter how you play [audience chanting] YOU! LOSE!

[adragonwithbalanceissues]

Question: if I tell it to the pizza guy or a waiter at a restaurant, would they be able to keep it as a tip, or should I not do that either?

[2pistolz]

In 2017 I wish you all minimum depression and maximum confidence 🌹

[griffys]

me, coming down off a breakdown, sniffling with tears still in my eyes: i wanna suck a dick

[thetackybunny]

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

playing with them can kill them when they’re tiny - each ‘mouth’ can only withstand ~3 closing cycles mechanically, each closing cycle is a huge energy investment, and of course growing new ‘mouths’ is a huge energy investment. if you want to watch them, get a bug to feed them.

[6lacksoul]