Brooklyn residents can't stop, won't stop making phony calls to 911: a 16-year-old teen has been arrested for making over 400 prank calls to 911 since last May. "He reported police officers needing assistance, shots fired, motor vehicle accidents and disputes," a police source told the Post about Dean Whylie. Obviously this doesn't sound very good, but at least this prank didn't involve shark attacks or suicide or Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.
Despite the fact that Whylie "disguised" his voice by pretending to be a woman on the phone, investigators traced most of the 404 calls to the teen’s E. 22nd Street home in Flatbush. Police say Whylie allegedly used two phones that weren’t yet activated, but were set up for emergency calls only. One of those phones, which had been used to make 186 of the fake calls, was recovered.
This arrest comes less than a month since a Williamsburg resident was arrested for making phone calls to 911 complaining about his hipster neighbors. Whylie has been charged with reckless endangerment, criminal impersonation, obstruction of governmental administration, filing false reports and criminal nuisance.
Although cops noted the teen could not give any explanation as to why he made the prank calls, it's pretty obvious that this was yet another copycat attempt at capturing the zeitgeist by a misguided teen enrapture by the Jerky Boys, those crude, bathroom-humor obsessed miscreants from Queens whose name is on the tip of everyone's tongues because it is 1993. Hey, have you guys heard this song "Creep" yet, the new single from that band named after a Talking Heads song?
