A boy called 911 to ask for help to solve his math homework. Cops soon realized he had a bigger problem and rushed to his address. Ryan Crosby was lost in deep thought, staring at the plain wall and his math book.
“How am I supposed to solve this one?” he mumbled. The 8-year-old had a math assignment to submit the next day and needed help with a few problems. Even the internet didn’t have the step-by-step answers he was looking for.
That’s when Ryan picked up the phone and dialed 911. “911. What’s your emergency?” the operator said.
Although the emergency unit in that part of Madison had previously dealt with several calls for help, this one stood out. “Come again? You need help with math???” the dispatcher exclaimed after hearing out Ryan…
“Yes, I do,” Ryan replied.
“My mom always told me I shouldn’t be scared to call 911 to ask for help.”
The operator hoped this was not a prank. They would often get random hoax calls from kids in town on Halloween. So this time, she decided not to give much thought to the little boy’s pleas with his math homework.
“Something isn’t right… Officer, you stay with him while we search.”
“Listen, son…What’s your name? the operator inquired. “My name is Ryan.”
“Ryan, this is not a tutorial center… It’s an emergency line,” the operator said.
“Is there any emergency we can help you with?”
But Ryan insisted that he only needed help to solve his math problems. “Please! My mom said 911 helps… help me with this, please!” he cried.
At this point, the operator was debating hanging up, but she had to be certain the kid wasn’t pulling a prank and decided to have a word with his mother. “Alright! I will transfer your call to the non-emergency department.
But before that, can you give the phone to your mother?” the operator said. Ryan cried and said he wouldn’t have called 911 if his mother had been home. “I see.
Is there another adult with you in the house?” the operator inquired. “No, it’s just me,” Ryan revealed. “Are you saying you’re all alone in the house, Ryan?”
“Yes.”
“One sec, hold on…hold on…” The operator kept Ryan on the line as she hurriedly traced his address.
In no time, cops rushed to the boy’s home, only to find him alone in his house at 10 p.m. “Hello, Ryan. Where is your mother?
How long have you been alone in the house?” an officer calmly asked Ryan. The boy said the house was empty when he arrived home from school that afternoon. “I had the spare keys with me.”
The officers thought something was amiss.
They tried to reach Ryan’s mother, Matilda, but her phone was switched off. “Something isn’t right…Officer, you stay with him while we search,” the cop said to his partner. Moments later, the officer got a call from the control room about the location where Matilda’s phone was last active.
“What…What’s going on? Where is my mother?” Ryan cried. An officer stayed with him while the rest hurried to the spot in the patrol vehicle.
The coordinates led the cops to the outskirts of town. “Her phone was last active in this area…Go on, search this place,” an officer commanded, pointing to a secluded area where an old deserted mill stood. The officers rummaged the place and still found nothing after half an hour.
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