Unbelievable, "The couple who dialled 999 for ambulance"...

[ZOLLAR]

...to save their five-year-old, Five year old cat that is!.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027592/Co...

Are some people really that dull?.

[cal72]

Dull? Being a bit generous there ZOLLAR.
Fecking retards, hope they get billed for it.

[Glassman]

ZOLLAR said:

Are some people really that dull?.

Capital punishment. It's the only way.

[Pondered Scrotum]

"Foreign couple".

I wonder where they're from? Does the ambulance service look after pets in that country? I doubt it.

fking mongs.

Can any Ambulance PHers confirm if they will get a bill?

[dudleybloke]

how catastrophic. i say beat them to death with their dead cat.

i'm sure there's some claws in law to reclaim money for the taxpayers purrs.

its not fur that we pay the bill as there's not much in the kitty.

[ZOLLAR]

cal72 said:

Dull? Being a bit generous there ZOLLAR.
Fecking retards, hope they get billed for it.

I could have used more explicit words I suppose

[Sheets Tabuer]

Judging by some of the responses in the pets forum when one mentions anything remotely negative about an animal I'd say they're not in a minority.

A lot of pet owners need some perspective.

[Eric Mc]

dudleybloke said:

how catastrophic. i say beat them to death with their dead cat.

i'm sure there's some claws in law to reclaim money for the taxpayers purrs.

its not fur that we pay the bill as there's not much in the kitty.

Inability to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences should be punishable by death too.

I'm sure I've been told that fireman sometimes rescue cats from trees - or is that a myth?

How do people contact the fire service in those instances? Is there a special "cat in tree" hotline separate to the normal 999 service?

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 19th August 09:16

[dudleybloke]

i meant to put a smiley in that but i thought the bad puns would be enough.

[Frankeh]

Paramedics should have just defibrillated the cat.
I'm just glad people this stupid haven't managed to breed. Well they have, just not this couple.

[Rocksteadyeddie]

This is a long way from the worst of it. A number of good mates of mine are paramedics. They have so many "regulars" that they all know one another by name. One that particularly springs to mind is the known and previously convicted paedophile who calls an ambulance once every couple of weeks or so with "chest pains". This illicits the most urgent repsonse - 8 minutes from memory. The operators and paramedics HAVE to repond by law. They would collect this chap, "rush" him to hospital whereupon - praise be to God - he'd staged a full recovery. He would then promptly check himself out, and go to visit the primary school which just happened to be next door to the hospital.

The boys have numerous tales of people who understand and who abuse the system time and again. They also have lots of very very funny stories that I'm happy to relay in DDs.

[turbobloke]

Eric Mc said:

dudleybloke said:

how catastrophic. i say beat them to death with their dead cat.

i'm sure there's some claws in law to reclaim money for the taxpayers purrs.

its not fur that we pay the bill as there's not much in the kitty.

Inability to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences should be punishable by death too.

I'm sure I've been told that fireman sometimes rescue cats from trees - or is that a myth?

How do people contact the fire service in those instances? Is there a special "cat in tree" hotline separate to the normal 999 service?

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 19th August 09:16

How about a life sentence for mistakes involving use of the plural for 'fireman' i.e. firemen, even after an edit and then there's the re-education process to be applied while inside, regarding heresy against doctrine for not using the gender neutral 'firefigher' or 'fireperson'

[Eric Mc]

And leaving "t"s out of firefighter. Shouldn't be allowed

I actually think that it's a mark of a civilised society that rescue services will spend their time dealing with the silly calls as well as the serious ones.

I would look on it as "response training". I'm sure every time they dash out on a call they hone their response skills - which all goes to make them more effective when they really need to be.

[ZOLLAR]

Rocksteadyeddie said:

This is a long way from the worst of it. A number of good mates of mine are paramedics. They have so many "regulars" that they all know one another by name. One that particularly springs to mind is the known and previously convicted paedophile who calls an ambulance once every couple of weeks or so with "chest pains". This illicits the most urgent repsonse - 8 minutes from memory. The operators and paramedics HAVE to repond by law. They would collect this chap, "rush" him to hospital whereupon - praise be to God - he'd staged a full recovery. He would then promptly check himself out, and go to visit the primary school which just happened to be next door to the hospital.

The boys have numerous tales of people who understand and who abuse the system time and again. They also have lots of very very funny stories that I'm happy to relay in DDs.

Are you serious?, If so that is shocking.

[Deva Link]

Pondered Scrotum said:

"Foreign couple".

They've probably been claiming child benefit for it, and will apply for a bereavement grant. This is the land of milk & honey for foreigners, after all.

[Rocksteadyeddie]

ZOLLAR said:

Rocksteadyeddie said:

This is a long way from the worst of it. A number of good mates of mine are paramedics. They have so many "regulars" that they all know one another by name. One that particularly springs to mind is the known and previously convicted paedophile who calls an ambulance once every couple of weeks or so with "chest pains". This illicits the most urgent repsonse - 8 minutes from memory. The operators and paramedics HAVE to repond by law. They would collect this chap, "rush" him to hospital whereupon - praise be to God - he'd staged a full recovery. He would then promptly check himself out, and go to visit the primary school which just happened to be next door to the hospital.

The boys have numerous tales of people who understand and who abuse the system time and again. They also have lots of very very funny stories that I'm happy to relay in DDs.

Are you serious?, If so that is shocking.

Sadly. The "system" has led to a number of them leaving to pursue other careers.

[Eric Mc]

The cat was probably claiming EMA.