As his father drove from California toward Nevada, repeating prayers while wearing a football helmet, a 12-year-old boy made an emergency call from the passenger seat, telling dispatchers he was concerned about his safety.
As his father drove from California toward Nevada, breathlessly repeating prayers while wearing a football helmet and steering erratically across the freeway, a 12-year-old boy made an emergency phone call from the passenger seat, telling dispatchers he was concerned about his safety.
Dispatchers from the California Highway Patrol received a call around 5 p.m. Oct. 26 from a boy who said he was in the car with his father, who was behaving in an alarming way, said California Highway Patrol Lt. Joe Dominguez. Three dispatchers worked to find the car’s location and even briefly spoke with the father, who was unresponsive to their questions and speaking rapidly in Spanish, mostly praying about the end of the world, said Alicia Villegas, one of the dispatchers who handled the call.
“He was very good, he was very calm,” Villegas said of the boy. “He was brave.” Prank calls from children can be common, she said, but “when a child calls on their parents, something is really wrong.At one point, the boy saw officers on the highway, but they passed, according to the recording of the call log. Villegas instructed the boy to roll down the window and wave at officers when he saw them again.
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