If you think the Montgomery County 911 system has problems, D.C.’s 911 office isn’t likely going to be having an easy time of it this week either. On Saturday the Examiner ran a small story about how D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At large) had to make a 911 call early Friday morning and says he received “textbook badgering treatment” from the operator.

Catania placed the 911 call after being awakened by the sounds of a screaming woman, and has since testified during an oversight hearing of the Office of Unified Communications about what he described as rude treatment by a D.C. 911 operator. Janice Quintana, director of the 911 office, disputed Catania’s account, saying she reviewed a recording of the call and thought the Council member sounded frantic and unintelligible.

As representatives for the pharmaceutical industry would be sure to confirm, Catania is one of the last people you’d want to have gunning for you. We won’t be surprised if some more 911 reform legislation makes its way in front of the D.C. Council in the new year.