Fables

The Boy Who Cried "Help"
There once was a boy who lived in Henderson, Kentucky, who was the dog walker for the local dog pound in town. One day the boy was doing his daily walk with the dogs and decided to sit down and let the dogs play in the local park. He eventually got bored and a way to fix that was to scream a blood curdling scream with these words, "Help", "Help" The raccoon is chasing the dogs. All of a sudden he heard lights and sirens pull up behind him coming to the rescue. He laughed and then noticed the anger and sadness upon the policeman's face. 
The policeman said, "Don't yell help, unless you actually need help." So they left and the little boy left and took the dogs back to the pound. 
The next day the little boy took the dogs on their daily walk again and sat down on the same bench and let the dogs play again. He screamed that blood curdling scream again, "Help!, Help! The raccoon is chasing the dogs!" The policeman like yesterday showed up in the same spot and came to the rescue but no rescue was needed as the little boy just sat there. 
The policeman told the boy again, "Don't cry help unless you actually need help." So the policeman left and the boy took the dogs back to the pound. 
The third day came and the kid took the dogs on their daily walk again and stopped at the same bench in the same park. The dogs ran around and were having a good ole' time until the boy noticed something black from the woods come running out at them. He couldn't see it until the dogs started running from it. The boy didn't know what to do but scream that blood curdling scream again, "Help!, Help! the raccoon is chasing the dogs!" No one came he screamed again and again and still no one heard a peep from the police. So the kid tried to get the dogs away from the raccoon but couldn't. The raccoon unfortunately got ahold of one of the dogs and hurt the dog really bad. The boy threw a rock at the raccoon and the it ran back into the woods. 
Time went on and the people at the pound started noticing that the boy wasn't back from his walk with dogs. So they called the police. The police looked everywhere and found the boy at the park with the hurt dog in his lap crying. The policeman asked what happened, the boy told him about the raccoon. The policeman looked at him and said, "we didn't know you were in trouble since you screamed that horrible blood curdling scream again and we blew it off, that is why you don't yell help unless you actually need it." 
They hurried and took the dog back to the pound and they started trying to clean and wrap the wound, but it was already too late. The dog later died and the boy didn't know what to do but appolgize for his stupidity. The policeman told him "it is alright. Just next time don't yell help unless you actually need it."

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