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The CBC's story of an unidentified Mississauga, Ontario 15-year-old who called 911 last week to report her parents for "forcing her" to go on vacation to a rental cottage east of Toronto is going viral, with the Ontario Provincial police officers who investigated the report calling it "a case of a teenager being a teenager."
"Although she perceived this as a real issue, it was not an appropriate use of 911," an officer told CBC News after the police visited the family's cabin to make sure it was not an actual emergency and that the teenager was, in fact, safe.
It's not unusual for teenagers to balk at family vacations. Anne Bruntrager, a mother of four boys in Boston, said that her own 15-year-old son, Jack, had protested so much about vacations in the past that this summer, she and her husband left him at home with grandparents when they took a trip to Scotland.
"Jack was so miserable when we took him to Europe last summer," she told TODAY Parents. "He spent the whole trip dragging his feet, complaining, expressing how much happier he would have been if he had stayed home. We vowed never to take him on an expensive vacation again."....................................
Teen Calls 911 to Report Parents for 'Forcing' Her to go on Vacation
"Although she perceived this as a real issue, it was not an appropriate use of 911," an officer told CBC News after the police visited the family's cabin to make sure it was not an actual emergency and that the teenager was, in fact, safe.
It's not unusual for teenagers to balk at family vacations. Anne Bruntrager, a mother of four boys in Boston, said that her own 15-year-old son, Jack, had protested so much about vacations in the past that this summer, she and her husband left him at home with grandparents when they took a trip to Scotland.
"Jack was so miserable when we took him to Europe last summer," she told TODAY Parents. "He spent the whole trip dragging his feet, complaining, expressing how much happier he would have been if he had stayed home. We vowed never to take him on an expensive vacation again."....................................
Teen Calls 911 to Report Parents for 'Forcing' Her to go on Vacation
