Wisconsin boy, 4, calls 911 because his mom 'ate his ice cream.'

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11-03-2025

Wisconsin boy, 4, calls 911 because his mom 'ate his ice cream.'
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911 ice cream call, boy gets sweet surprise
The Mount Pleasant Police Department is used to getting calls, but this week, they were called out to something they'd never seen before.
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Last week, two officers with a small police department in southeastern Wisconsin responded to a 911 call unlike any they had heard before: A 4-year-old boy wanted his mother jailed for eating his ice cream.
Officers Rachel Gardinier and Francesca Ostergaar with the Village of Mount Pleasant Police Department went to the boy's home – first to confirm that was in fact the reason for the call and then to personally deliver him his beloved dessert.
The lighthearted interaction began on March 4 in the town of Mount Pleasant, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee, when the young boy called 911 and told the dispatcher, "My mommy is being bad."
According to audio obtained by TMJ4, the dispatcher responded "OK, what's going on?"
"Come and get my mommy," the child said, as he seemed to begin to cry.
Eventually, his mother is heard on the call saying, "Oh, this little one got the phone, and he's 4."
"I ate his ice cream, so that's probably why he's calling 911," she later said.
When officers arrived at the boy's home, he confirmed this, telling officers his mom ate his ice cream and "needed to go to jail" for it, the police department said on social media.
Body camera footage released by the police department shows the boy's mother answer the door.
"Oh, it's the police," she said. "They came for real."
One of the officers asks the boy, "Did you call the police?"
"Yeah," he said. "I told my mommy to go to jail. ... I didn't get ice cream."
The officers and the boy's mother laughed about what happened and used the moment to teach him a valuable lesson: "No calling 911 unless it's a real emergency OK?" one of the officer said to him.
The next day, the officers returned with exactly what the had boy wanted – some soft serve.
The police department shared a photo of the officers and the child wearing a Super Mario shirt and holding a drink carrier with two cups of ice cream.