When his son threatened to call the cops on him for a traffic infraction, the father didn’t believe him. He was sorely mistaken.
Little Robbie Richardson is known as a stool pigeon in some circles.
Thankfully, 911 dispatchers were just amused by the 6-year-blind old’s loyalty to the law.
Robbie must have learned about driving laws, such as how running red lights is against the law and potentially dangerous to others.
Not only did he inform on his father, but he also provided the detectives with a detailed description of his father’s vehicle, allowing them to hunt him down.
When Mike realized his kid had called the emergency number to report his crime, he felt humiliated.
“Oh no, I’m sorry,” Mike responded hastily after answering the phone.
In Robbie’s perspective, he was simply doing the right thing and getting ready for his future profession as a cop.
“He’s said he wants to be a police officer since he turned 6 in February, so in his head he was doing the right thing,” Robbie’s mother, Joleen McDonald, told ABC News.
Mike didn’t even break the law in the first place. He made a completely legal right on red.
“It was all right. “It didn’t state anything like ‘No turn on red,’ but Robbie was persuaded that red meant stop, so you don’t go,” Joleen explained.
Robbie threatened his own father with the police after he became sure that his father was breaching the law.
“Daddy, in his opinion, was breaching the law.” “When he told Mike in the car wash, ‘Daddy, I’m going to call the cops on you,’ Mike blew it off and didn’t think much of it,” Joleen recalled. “We were outside cooking on the grill later, and we thought Robbie went inside to use the restroom, but he came back out to us on the back porch with the cops on the phone,” says the narrator.
Captain John Dougan, the Quincy Police Department’s public relations officer, said he was delighted Robbie remembered to contact 911 in an emergency.
All Robbie has to know now is what exactly defines an emergency and when the law should be applied.
“We explained to him when we hung up the phone that you don’t call for those things,” Dougan told ABC News. “But if there was an emergency and someone needed to contact the police, then you call.”
Robbie’s call isn’t the first time the police department has received an unusual call.
“Every day, we receive a large number of 911 calls. Frequently, these calls are from people who require quick assistance. Sometimes it’s just a simple dialing error. Then there’s Robert’s 9-1-1 call,” the police department posted on Facebook.
Robbie, on the other hand, still doesn’t seem to comprehend it and keeps his gaze fixed on his father.
“Everyone except daddy observes the rules,” he told the Boston Globe.
It appears that Robbie’s father will have to be especially cautious about breaking any restrictions. Have you ever had a child accuse you of making a simple mistake?