Coast Guard Highlights The Problems With Making "False Calls"

The coast guard station here at Curtis Bay handles hundreds of calls each year, but not all of them are real, including one they got Wednesday night. False calls don’t just impact the Coast Guard, those calls impact other resources, and that literally costs all those involved, “The cost rise quickly. It was a search last summer that cost more than $70,000 for something we believe was a false call.”

Making these false May Days are also a risk for the caller. It is a felony. One man caught and convicted in North Carolina was sentenced to one year and a day and ordered to pay almost a quarter of a million dollars in restitution to cover the cost of the false call.
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