(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
Threatens to call the media
“I try to be a good neighbor”
Talks about contacting politicians
Issue has been going on for years and they are only just now calling about it
Unintelligible
Not our region/ jurisdiction
Conspiracy theory
Has a weapon
“It’s making me sick” “It’s giving me cancer” ect.
Issue only occurs outside of work hours
Requests tests we don’t do
“My property value”
Extreme exaggeration about the situation
Only returns you call after you’ve investigated
Complains about another investigator
“They won’t know it was me who complained, right?”
Yells at you
Doesn’t let you get a word in
Thinks we’re the EPA
Insinuates that we are in cahoots with the facility being complained about
“MY TAXES”
Tells you gossip about their neighbor that is unrelated to the complaint
Disgruntled ex-employee
Gets mad and hangs up
Lives suspiciously far from the place they are complaining about
“I moved here from … and this never happened there”
References talking to a TCEQ employee you’ve never heard of
