SURREY – A local man is very regretful of his behaviour last night after he woke up to discover he had drunkenly gotten in touch with several emergency services the previous night.
Don Kelso, a local college student who had recently gotten out of fairly long-term relationship, is having to face the consequences of his actions after he reached out to firefighters and police in a vulnerable state at a friend’s house party.
“I told my friends to make sure I didn’t call any of my ex-girlfriends last night, I said no matter how drunk I get, stop me from calling anyone I’d regret the next morning,” Kelso told The Peak. “I guess I just kind of assumed that would include calling an ambulance to ‘fix my broken heart.’”
According to his phone history, Kelso made over 15 calls to 911 between 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., which he both “deeply regrets” and “is being fined over $1,500 for.”
“It’s so embarrassing for the cops to have to hear me in that state,” Kelso explained, shaking his head. “Now they know what a weak person I am, I’m never going to be able to live this down.”
While Kelso is upset that the police, the fire department and ambulance workers will now look at him as a weak man, and will probably not trust him in an actual emergency situation, he claims that everything he said was just a mistake, and there was no truth to it.
“I just drank a little too much, that’s it,” he said. “No, there wasn’t actually a fire in the living room, and no, I wasn’t really having a heart attack, and finally no, I am not really in love with officer McCormick . . . that’s obviously just a bunch of drunk talk with absolutely no truth to it.”
Despite rumours that there is something between Kelso and officer McCormick, Kelso is trying his hardest to prove that everything he did last night was a dumb mistake.
“I’ve apologized profusely for my idiocy to all the emergency operators I called and they’ve all been pretty understanding,” he said. “I don’t know if they really mean it though, they’re still charging me for falsely calling them out when they could have been dealing with real situations, that seems a little petty to me.”
Although the police, fire department and ambulance workers have all agreed that the worst part is that they were unable to assist in the several actual emergencies that happened last night, for Kelso that’s only a minor concern.
“Sure I’m embarrassed that ambulance workers had to listen to me try to describe where exactly in my soul I was dying while a man really was dying a block away, but for me the worst part is that everyone knows about it now,” he explained. “I’d be fine if this was just a stupid thing between me and the emergency service workers I contacted but they had to go and let everybody know, it’s awful for me.”
One of the people who found out about Kelso’s “embarrassing” calls was his ex-girlfriend Stephanie who was really taken aback by his alleged behaviour.
“I was thinking of getting back together with him, if he had called last night I probably would have, actually,” she said, thinking back. “But now there’s no way, he really proved to me that he’s got a lot of growing up to do, I mean, who drunk dials these days? If he had texted 911, this whole thing could’ve been avoided.”
