What Caused Some Breaking Bad Viewers to Call the Police?

This past Sunday evening was a pretty important time for TV-viewing in the American northeast. The final season of Breaking Bad continued, and an incredibly tense Yankees-Red Sox game raged on at Fenway Park. All of that came to halt for some Connecticut residents when several of the shoreline communities’ cable went out.

And so what did residents do? They called the police.

Panicked Cablevision subscribers reached out to their state senator, while others reportedly called the police. One dialed Fairfield County’s 911 emergency line.

Such calls led to local police posting a warning on Facebook: The cable outage is “neither an emergency or a police-related concern,” the department reportedly wrote.

Many ribbed the affluent Connecticut county on social media, mocking the affluent residents for panicking so much over missing the popular AMC series or the baseball game so as to call the police.

But one police official says much of the calls came from residents concerned about losing phone service in addition to their television and Internet.

Watch the report below from CNN, where is made Anderson Coopers’ “RidicuList”

[h/t Boston.com]

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