1. Around 6:30 last night we heard multiple vehicles with sirens blasting, going through Walker.
2. I thought they were Law Enforcement sirens but typically, the fire department is also called to stage, that is to be ready to respond if medical treatment is needed.
3. Walker Fire was not called out so I phoned our dispatch center who said they knew nothing.
4. I called the sheriff dispatch to try to find out what was going on.
This didn't go well but I'm not going to go into detail on that point.
5. At the house below us someone was calling out "hello! hello!" but we had no idea who it was.
At first we were not sure what was going on
6. I was able to draw out from sheriff dispatch that a call came into them that someone was calling out for help.
7. The call to 911 came from one neighbor below us and the sheriff responded to the other house below us but no one was home.
8. A neighbor across the valley, so away from us and the two houses I talked about above, has a goat.
9. The goat is always making noise and always sounds like it is in distress.
10. One of the times that the sheriff deputy yelled hello from the house below us, the goat cried out for "help." The deputy yelled back "where are you?"
11. This all happened while I was on the phone for a second time with our dispatch (different than the sheriff dispatch).
12. My wife figured it out. The one neighbor got fooled by the normal goat noises and called 911 and the deputy may or may not have been fooled. I relayed this to our dispatch and then I think the deputies put it all together finally.
13. That this happened at all is crazy and that we are essentially in the middle of the reporting party, the empty house that deputies responded to and the goat house is even crazier.
14. Please leave a comment if you come across a crazier story today than this one.
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