Well, what can the
life-saving community do?
If there aren't enough operators, and there's no more money to hire more, a message is better than nothing.
I fully agree it
sucks (having to have waited through such a
message, to report a
minor collision a friend of mine was in), but the fault is more in the
lack of money, and the people who call
911 to complain about their
loud neighbors or such.
Find the number of the
police station, darn it!
(And get those
emergency services more money).