We're always teaching kids to call 911 in any case of an emergency, and for one kid, that emergency was as simple as wanting to spread some love.
Police body camera and home surveillance footage show the moment a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputy responding to a 911 call gets a heartfelt surprise instead.
Upon arriving at the Florida caller's home, Pracht knocked on its front door and then asked its homeowner Dayana Del Valle if everything was OK.
The surprised woman immediately called her son to the front door and asked him to bring his phone once Pracht shared that he received an emergency call from the home. The deputy asked if the boy had a disconnected cellphone, to which the mom simply replied, "Yep."
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"Did you call this gentleman? Did you call the police?" Del Valle asks her son.
"Well, I wanted to give him a hug!" the boy responds.
"You called him to give him a hug?" she again asks.
"What, I did!" the boy says, before walking toward Pracht and saying, "I know your phone number."
Pracht fulfilled the 911 call's mission and hugged the boy before explaining the real emergency rules of calling 911.
"It's for if you're in trouble, if you need help or if somebody you know is around you that's in trouble and needs help," Pracht said. "You got to be careful when you call that number, OK? Only in emergencies and if you're hurt or somebody else is hurt, your mom needs help, someone's doing something they're not supposed to do — you give us a call, OK?"
The boy apologized and gave a fist bump to Pracht, who told him "Don't worry about it," before heading back on patrol.
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