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<blockquote data-quote="browndingo" data-source="post: 1219419" data-attributes="member: 50642"><p>True story - I lived out in the country years ago where my postal address was something like "Route 3, box 25". Then the county got 911 and the gravel road I lived on was now "250th Street" and I had a house number which the county put on a nice reflective sign down by the "street."</p><p></p><p>A few months after that, I was driving home and saw a grass fire in a ditch about half a mile down the road, across from one of my neighbor's. The neighbor's truck wasn't there and I figured they weren't around, so I drove home and called the FD. They asked me for the location of the fire. I thought to myself "Ah, here's where these new 911 addresses will really be handy." I told the dispatcher "It's right across the road from 1234 250th Street."</p><p></p><p>Silence.</p><p></p><p>"Oh - is that the Smithville road?"</p><p></p><p>"No - it's the rock road one mile north of there."</p><p></p><p>"Oh - at Johnson's corner?"</p><p></p><p>"No - that's two miles north. It's the one between them."</p><p></p><p>"Oh - where the Brown's used to live?"</p><p></p><p>"That's right - it's a quarter mile west of the old Brown place. Right across from the Jones' place."</p><p></p><p>"OK - they're on the way..."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browndingo, post: 1219419, member: 50642"] True story - I lived out in the country years ago where my postal address was something like "Route 3, box 25". Then the county got 911 and the gravel road I lived on was now "250th Street" and I had a house number which the county put on a nice reflective sign down by the "street." A few months after that, I was driving home and saw a grass fire in a ditch about half a mile down the road, across from one of my neighbor's. The neighbor's truck wasn't there and I figured they weren't around, so I drove home and called the FD. They asked me for the location of the fire. I thought to myself "Ah, here's where these new 911 addresses will really be handy." I told the dispatcher "It's right across the road from 1234 250th Street." Silence. "Oh - is that the Smithville road?" "No - it's the rock road one mile north of there." "Oh - at Johnson's corner?" "No - that's two miles north. It's the one between them." "Oh - where the Brown's used to live?" "That's right - it's a quarter mile west of the old Brown place. Right across from the Jones' place." "OK - they're on the way..." [/QUOTE]
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