When you look at your phone and realize you accidentally called 911 By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff,Updated December 23, 2020, 4:17 p.m. Email to a Friend Shutterstock Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known â but no less noteworthy â incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our suburbs. SORRY, I DIDNâT MEAN TO DIAL 911 People inadvertently call 911 more often than you might think. On Aug. 30, Bridgewater police received an accidental call from a man who said he dropped his phone and it dialed 911. On Nov. 16,