Should I feel guilty for slightly exaggerating to the dispatcher?

[Anonymous]

I work for a commercial cleaning company and one of the places I clean has big windows so I can see the parking lot outside. It's a shopping center with a lot of different stores. Last week this homeless lady tried opening the door but failed because it was locked, then she started looking through the windows for like 20 mins. Then she climbed on top of someone's car, walked around on the roof, then jumped off. Fast forward to a couple of hours ago. I was cleaning, and the same lady showed up. She was just hanging around for a little bit. There was a lady walking into one of the stores, and this lady raises her voice at her, then gets in her face and screams at her at the top of her lungs. I'm guessing she asked her for money, and she said no. The other lady just walked away and into the store. Then this lady was yelling at people across the parking lot, and asking if she could have 2 dollars. I decided to call 911, because I didn't want it to escalate to something terrible. I told dispatch that there is a lady asking people for money, and screaming in peoples faces. This us what I feel guilty about. I said she was screaming in people's faces, but she only screamed in one person's face. I didn't even realize I was exaggerating at the time. I guess my mind subconsciously did it, because I felt I wouldn't be taken as seriously. Like 5 mins later a sherrif shows. Up. Takes the beer from her hand and hand cuffed her, and put her in his cruiser. Then Like 3 more officers showed up, and was talking to bystanders. I asked 3 people im close to about this, and they said I shouldn't feel bad at all, and that i did the right thing. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Well she only screamed in one person's face, but she did yell across a parking lot. In the future, you'd want to be as honest as possible. But this isn't too far off base. The lady was clearly annoying people and most likely a person who has mental illness. If you called and were more accurate by saying "She yelled in one person's face and then yelled at people across the parking lot", their response probably would have been the same. Just don't say stuff like they have a gun or a knife when they do not. That will get them killed when the police show up and you can be charged with filing a false police report. Not that you'd do that anyway.

[Asker]

Do you think I should call them back, and tell them I exaggerated?

[Opinion Owner]

No I wouldn't bother calling them about it. It's not like you exaggerated to the point where they came in with guns drawn, etc. But in the future, if something like this happens again, perhaps be more accurate. I like your concern over the matter.