In the eyes of Salina, Kansas police, needing welfare is not an emergency.

David-SloverDavid Slover, a Michigan man, was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly made 26 bogus 911 calls over the course of two days. Most of the calls, police say, were to falsely report crimes in and around a Motel 6 room occupied by a female acquaintance.

“Slover falsely reported things that include a drug overdose, shots fired, a fire, domestic violence crimes, and asked for welfare checks,” KSAL reports.

Police tracked him down a short time later and arrested him. They recovered the cell phone he allegedly used to make the calls.

Slover had an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Monroe, Michigan. He’s facing charges including multiple counts of making a false police report. He also faces charges of making a criminal threat after he allegedly threatened to burn the hotel down when he was asked to leave.

Meanwhile, Toshiba L. Smith didn’t quite keep up Slover’s pace, but she was arrested and jailed for calling 911 over 150 times since early June.

toshiba smith“Deputies have responded to Smith’s apartment sometimes back to back in one shift,” a Tuesday police report said, noting that the woman had called twice in the same hour, The Telegraph reports.

One of the recent calls was to tell police that her neighbor was using “a recording device” to “pick on her.”

Smith’s neighbor, Barbara Parham, has had it with her.

Parham says Smith “was using off me,” and in particular, would never pay her back after borrowing cigarettes, food, coffee, sugar and flour. Worse, Parham says, Smith “ate straight from the bag.”

Parham claims her neighbor called 911 so much because “because she can’t get her way.”

“She ain’t crazy,” according to Parham. “She’s a devil. … She’s trying to get my name in the paper now.”

Parham’s reaction to Smith’s arrest? “She brought that on herself. I tried to get her to go to church with me. She won’t go. .. I said, ‘The devil at you, girl. You need to go to church every chance you can get.’”