I'm doing my rounds at about 11PM at night. Everything has been locked-up at 9:00PM, and the areas still open were quiet.
Then I got a call from 911 dispatch. They told me that they'd just gotten a call from a man who said he was being held IN THE MALL against his will. Another man then got on the line and told dispatch that HE was (my mall's name) Security and that the caller was a mental patient and had escaped from the hospital.
Luckily, they called our security phone first without sending over a bunch of officers! I also explained to them that if the call was not from the security phone's number, it was a prank; also that I (female) was the only one here and had had the phone all day, and that the mall had been closed since 9.
At least nothing bad came of this, but I did have to do a nice little write-up for my manager for in the morning.
Who makes a prank call saying they're mall security? I can only figure it was someone mad at us and wanted to put us in bad light.
Then I got a call from 911 dispatch. They told me that they'd just gotten a call from a man who said he was being held IN THE MALL against his will. Another man then got on the line and told dispatch that HE was (my mall's name) Security and that the caller was a mental patient and had escaped from the hospital.
Luckily, they called our security phone first without sending over a bunch of officers! I also explained to them that if the call was not from the security phone's number, it was a prank; also that I (female) was the only one here and had had the phone all day, and that the mall had been closed since 9.
At least nothing bad came of this, but I did have to do a nice little write-up for my manager for in the morning.
Who makes a prank call saying they're mall security? I can only figure it was someone mad at us and wanted to put us in bad light.
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