Emergency 911 Call Didn't Tell the Whole Story

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Perry County Sheriff's Department Sunday afternoon did what it always does--respond quickly to an emergency.

A young girl on a cellular telephone called 911 at 12:11 p.m. Sunday and the only information she gave the dispatcher was this: "She's laying on the road. There's blood everywhere and there's a bone sticking out."

The message was alarming and that was the end of the call.

The dispatcher did identify the young caller as being on Pyatt Blacktop west of Du Quoin.

The dispatcher properly effected the immediate call-out of a deputy, an ambulance and a fire truck to the scene.

As the first responders rolled up they found that a horse--not a woman or a girl--had fallen out of the back of a horse trailer onto the pavement and had a broken leg.

The horse was so badly injured that the deputy had to destroy the animal at the scene.