DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — While his mother was preparing food in the kitchen, a 5-year-old Florida boy called 911 to invite law enforcement officers over for Thanksgiving dinner. “With all the bad calls we take on a daily basis, this one was a welcomed happy call that made all of us smile,” said Walton County Sheriff’s Office Lead Communications Officer Monica Webster. Mom Landi McCormick says she was cooking when Billy's grandfather noticed him talking to someone on an old cellphone. Billy looked at his mother rather sheepishly and admitted that he had dialed 911. “He started crying, and just a few minutes later Deputy (Dannon) Byrd from the Sheriff’s Office drove up.” 
 
 The deputy walked up to McCormick and asked if Billy was the young man who had called 911. She says the deputy thanked Billy for his kind invitation, then reminded him he should only use 911 for emergencies. “But then he reminded him that we should only use 911 for emergencies.” 
 
 As an added treat, Byrd and his partner, Deputy Aaron Ethridge, gave the boy a sheriff’s badge and allowed him to sit in their patrol car and activate the lights and siren. "I wanted them to have cheesecake with us," Billy said, explaining why he invited the deputies for dinner.
– While his mother was preparing food in the kitchen, a 5-year-old Florida boy called 911 to invite law enforcement officers over for Thanksgiving dinner, the AP reports. Monica Webster of the Walton County Sheriff's Office tells the News Herald that with all the bad calls they receive every day, this was a happy call. But young Billy Nolin's family had no idea he'd invited guests to dinner. Mom Landi McCormick says she was cooking when Billy's grandfather noticed him talking to someone on an old cellphone. McCormick reprimanded Billy when he admitted calling 911. He was crying when Deputy Dannon Byrd drove up. She says the deputy thanked Billy for his kind invitation, then reminded him he should only use 911 for emergencies. The deputies gave Billy a sheriff's badge.