Easy Sunday. Dispatcher: "Do you need police, fire, or medical?"
The San Francisco 911 dispatcher was on the ball.
Paul Pelosi, husband of Nancy Pelosi, made a distress call to the 911 dispatcher. The home invader was there beside him listening.
Pelosi had to appear to the home invader that he was calling off the police. He sounded nonchalant. Meanwhile, he had to signal to the dispatcher that he was in grave trouble and, yes, it was an emergency, send police.
There were two messages, given simultaneously, to be interpreted in opposite ways. It is easy, in hindsight, to know that of course this was a distress call. Hindsight is 20-20. It fooled the home invader. The dispatcher "got it." Maybe. That is that is the trouble with messages hidden inside messages. Maybe she "got it" just barely enough. She did send police. Listen: