Man calls 911 more than dozen times trying to get taxi


	Man calls 911 more than dozen times trying to get taxi

digitalsistere

5-22-2008 5:29 PM

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news, police, texas, drugs, arrest, weird, waco, funny, humor

digitalsistere says:

I can't help but remember what my mom used to call this part of texas!

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