Have to wonder......

The below came as part of an email. I would like to think it was a joke but I just don't know.

A mother calls 911 very
worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to
take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had
eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the
kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the
mother says, 'I just gave him some ant
killer......'

Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to
emergency!'