Sometimes our mobile devices seem to have a mind of their own, bringing added meaning to the term smartphone. But it’s never smart to make false 911 calls to police. At times, smartphones act stupid.

At least one child in Cassia County this past weekend called 911 while playing with her mother’s phone, and a couple of callers accidentally dialed the emergency number, but a number of other open-line 911 calls were made without what seems to be the phone’s owner knowing about it.

Are these examples of electronics going bad?

Below are some of the open-line calls dispatch received Friday-Monday as reported by the Cassia County Sheriff’s Office:

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Friday, 10:33 p.m.: Dispatch reported it received a “911 hang up” late Friday night. When it tried to reach the caller, all it got was “static in the line due to the rain.”

Saturday, 3:44 a.m.: When dispatch received a 911 call early Saturday morning, voices could be heard in the background and on call-back the phone went to a voicemail.

Saturday, 8:21 a.m.: A few hours later, at a little after 8 a.m. Saturday, dispatch received yet another open-line 911 call. This time voices in Spanish could be heard in the background, but there seemed to be no emergency.

Saturday, 9:03 a.m.: Less than an hour later, another open-line call came in. Dispatch recorded that it “did a search of the number and have had several 911 open lines from it,” but there was “nothing” on the line, “just quiet.”

Saturday, 4:33 p.m.: On an open-line 911 call Saturday afternoon, dispatch “could hear what sounded like a child and traffic in the background,” according to the sheriff’s blotter. “After a minute an adult came to the phone and said that her baby was playing with it.”

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Sunday, 9:28 a.m.: Someone was happy Sunday morning, because when the caller’s phone dialed 911 the receiver could hear nothing but “talking and whistling on the line.” When dispatch later dialed the number, “it went to a Spanish speaking operator.”

Sunday, 10:03 a.m.: Another call that morning was apparently by a rancher, for all the dispatch receiver could hear were “men calling cattle.”

Sunday, 4:37 p.m.: The last open-line 911 call for the weekend in Cassia County occurred late Sunday afternoon. On this call, people could be heard “faintly in the background.”

Monday, 6:13 a.m.: “No voice” was heard on this open-line, but when dispatched called back a woman said she was trying to disable the alarm on her son’s phone.

Monday, 9:30 a.m.: A woman who accidentally dialed 911 said there was no emergency, medical or otherwise.

Monday, 11:40 a.m.: This call came from an area business. When dispatch answered, the phone disconnected. A dispatch receiver called back the number and was told by an employee that she was “not aware of a problem” at the business.

Monday, 2:22 p.m.: The only thing dispatch could hear on this call was “a baby on the other line.”

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