(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Tells you how old they are
Talks about contacting politicians
“I try to be a good neighbor”
“I’ve lived here # years”
Issue has been going on for years and they are only just now calling about it
Not our region/ jurisdiction
Gets mad and hangs up
Only returns you call after you’ve investigated
Requests tests we don’t do
Lives suspiciously far from the place they are complaining about
Insinuates that we are in cahoots with the facility being complained about
Threatens to call the media
“They won’t know it was me who complained, right?”
Unintelligible
Has a weapon
Issue only occurs outside of work hours
“My property value”
Extreme exaggeration about the situation
Brings up a lawsuit
“It’s making me sick” “It’s giving me cancer” ect.
Doesn’t let you get a word in
Yells at you
Thinks we’re the EPA
References talking to a TCEQ employee you’ve never heard of
Complains about another investigator
Tells you gossip about their neighbor that is unrelated to the complaint
Disgruntled ex-employee
Conspiracy theory
“I moved here from … and this never happened there”
