101 - whats the point?

[Toaster Pilot]

Have only ever used it once - a stolen car was dumped in my parking space at home.

Answered quickly, dealt with swiftly and the car was removed by the Police within an hour.

[GiveItSomeWellie]

Jakeztx said:

I rang about 3 weeks ago when I woke up to the Moo's of a few escaped Cows filling the road outside my house.

Was put straight through, not on hold for even a moment, and was told I was the third person to have reported it and the farmer had already been contacted...

My only experience though!

How odd, only 2 weeks ago I called 101 to report some cows that had escaped and were in the middle of the road a few miles from home. It was 3:30am and I'd driven 400 miles from Germany that night and thought for a split second I might have been hallucinating

When I called I was given about 90 seconds of "did you know you can report crime online" etc., but finally got straight through to someone to report the issue. To begin with I don't think the operator thought I was being serious!

[Jasandjules]

Generally to make the sheep think the Govt give a s**t about them.