He was supposed to tell the responding officers "Yeah, just come to 1211... um... 1211... uh..." How are you supposed to give an address when you don't even know the name of the street the address is on?
I stated the above to give insight into what I believe GZ's reasoning was, in that moment. Judge for yourself if you think it fits. He claimed he wasn't satisfied with the directions he had given dispatchers, and if you listen to the NEN call, I think it's fairly clear why.
Listen to the NEN call from 1:45 til 2:03. At 2:03 it seems to me like GZ is starting to get distracted by something TM is doing (I presume), but anyway, he's still in the middle of trying to give directions to where he's parked, and doesn't finish before the "****, he's running", etc.
At 3:00 he resumes trying to tell them where his truck is at (via turn by turn directions, essentially), and then the dispatcher asks him what address he's parked at, which he doesn't know ("it's a cut through"), and then they get caught up in GZ telling them his house number. It's then that the dispatcher suggests they meet at the mailboxes, which GZ first agrees to (sort of absentmindedly if you ask me) then GZ asks the dispatcher to have them call him so he can tell them where he's at.
First, notice that all his stumbling in telling where he's at could have been quickly resolved by him saying "I'm on Twin Trees Lane", so he either doesn't remember the name of the street, or you believe GZ didn't want them to find him or something (he was lying about not knowing, etc.).
Anyway, at that point, at the end of the call, I suppose you either believe GZ was actually wanting the responding officer to call him back because he was unsatisfied with the information he had given the dispatcher (like GZ has stated in his interviews), or you believe GZ wanted to continue looking for TM, and that's the reason he didn't want to give an exact location. Perhaps there are more theories, but those seem to be the two most common.
Dispatchers are accustomed to dealing with partial information. The house number and the neighborhood name may be sufficient to uniquely identify the house. If not, there are only a couple of possibilities and George's directions to find his truck would be a sufficient discriminator.
Ok, why are you stating this? Is this knowledge that GZ
should have been thinking of at that moment? Why didn't the dispatcher relay this information to GZ while on the phone if it's something he should have been accustomed to? It's quite clear GZ is struggling to tell him where he's at. The dispatcher's response to GZ trying to give turn-by-turn directions to his location is "Ok, what address are you parked in front of?". If turn-by-turn directions were sufficient, I imagine the dispatcher would have accepted that, and would not have asked for an address, but he did. It's a lot easier for the dispatcher to just punch in an address for the cops to head to, than try to retell, word for word, GZ's directions.
No, it isn't reasonable to conclude that GZ would be able to reach a reasonable conclusion even if he had an eternity. GZ says he went through to Retreat View Circle to get an address so he could tell the police where to meet him when they call. Does he find an address? There is no indication that he did.
There's no indication the police called him, and it was they who he was going to get the address for anyway, so without that call, there wouldn't be an indication. The only problem with that idea is that GZ stated in his interviews that he was on the phone with dispatch when he reached RVC, so I also wonder why he didn't give them the address at that time. GZ also didn't mention hanging around at RVC, and that he went directly back to his truck once he reached RVC. So if GZ gets off the phone with NEN at RVC, and immediately heads back to his truck, he's at the T, where he says the altercation begins, in just a matter of seconds, but the first 911 call doesn't come in for over 2 1/2 minutes (iirc) after the conclusion of that call. So GZ either didn't actually get to RVC while on the phone with dispatch, he didn't leave RVC immediately after he got there (he hung around for a bit, getting the address, and waiting for that officer's call), he continued to look for TM (but where did he look?), or the encounter lasted quite a while (well over 2 minutes). What time did the last call with DD take place, compared to when the NEN call ended, and the first 911 call came in?
Does he act in a manor consistent with establishing a rendouvous point to meet the police? No, he does not stay at the location that would have a known address. We conclude therefore that GZ is lying.
To the underlined: Do you mean RVC? We only "know" he didn't stay there based on what he's said in his interviews. I think it's possible, even likely that he's not accounting for all the time he spent at the T, or at RVC, etc. I think it's established that the police never tried to contact him, so perhaps he waited there for about a minute, the call never came, so he walks back across the T, back to his truck. Who knows. Maybe he's lying, maybe he's just not remembering things as accurately as we would like for him to.
That's exactly where the dispatcher would be. Looking at a map like the dispatcher would have displayed in front of him, which of the three 1211 addresses do you reach if you come in straight past the clubhouse and take a left just like George had said? Of course, we don't expect George to be able to to this. We accept that George is an idiot.
If the dispatcher has a map in front of him (this appears to be your assumption), then why didn't the dispatcher just ask "are you on Twin Trees Lane"? GZ had already given the dispatcher the address for the clubhouse, so if the dispatcher had a map in front of him, the clubhouse address would have put him right in the vicinity on the map, and he could have just visually followed the map based on GZ's directions and easily seen Twin Trees Lane, but the dispatcher never hints at that. I do accept that GZ is likely an idiot.
