Idiots who call the 999 line
Idiots who call the 999 line
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amir_j

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3,579 posts

231 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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1) My cats been playing with string for 2 hours (Listen to audio here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8433...
2) In another call a man contacted emergency services to say he was stuck on a patch of ice in a street in Bolton and was too scared to go forwards or backwards.

Between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, GMP said it received 1,377 999 calls, but only a fraction were genuine emergencies.

mccarn

641 posts

227 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Seen that myself. Crazy. People like that should have been removed from the gene pool at birth.

croyde

26,391 posts

260 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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What the fek is it with people. It really does seem that the majority are fekin' stupid, ignorant, selfish s.

These pointless calls to 999 come up from time to time and it still amazes me. I have called ambulances and police before and even though it has been for genuine emergencies, I still worry that I may be wasting their time.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

218 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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They are bringing it on themselves if they don't do anything about it.

Shaw Tarse

31,891 posts

233 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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amir_j said:
1) My cats been playing with string for 2 hours (Listen to audio here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8433...
2) In another call a man contacted emergency services to say he was stuck on a patch of ice in a street in Bolton and was too scared to go forwards or backwards.

Between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, GMP said it received 1,377 999 calls, but only a fraction were genuine emergencies.
999
That link aint working please sort it!!

HOGEPH

5,249 posts

216 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Maybe if they named these people, other people might think twice before calling 999 for "non-emergency" reasons?

croyde

26,391 posts

260 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Shaw Tarse said:
amir_j said:
1) My cats been playing with string for 2 hours (Listen to audio here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8433...
2) In another call a man contacted emergency services to say he was stuck on a patch of ice in a street in Bolton and was too scared to go forwards or backwards.

Between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, GMP said it received 1,377 999 calls, but only a fraction were genuine emergencies.
999
That link aint working please sort it!!
laugh

Take the numbers off the link and you'll get the Manchester page and it's on there. The woman sounds well ed.

Edited by croyde on Tuesday 29th December 19:26

Andyr86

209 posts

229 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Some good ones from Avon and Somerset Police here:

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/units_and_dep...

Jasandjules

72,606 posts

259 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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If you call this service 3 times on a spurious basis then they should block your number.

Taita

7,997 posts

233 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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What in the most severe fk is this woman on:

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/units_and_dep...

The bloke is suitably scathing though.

Killer2005

20,602 posts

258 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Taita said:
What in the most severe fk is this woman on:

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/units_and_dep...

The bloke is suitably scathing though.
yikes

We appear to have found the worlds most stupid person. She should be tracked down and used for research purposes

Daston

6,153 posts

233 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Taita said:
What in the most severe fk is this woman on:

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/units_and_dep...

The bloke is suitably scathing though.
Hats off to the guy,

My resonse would have been either "fk right off you crazy bh"

or "I have called the men in white coats for you please remain where you are"


MG-FIDO

454 posts

267 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Totally bloody nuts, everyone knows it's the red ones that are rare! wink

ShadownINja

80,074 posts

312 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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amir_j said:
2) In another call a man contacted emergency services to say he was stuck on a patch of ice in a street in Bolton and was too scared to go forwards or backwards.
That'll be them stupid pirates with wooden legs. Us ninjas can just slide across a street of ice.

OllieWinchester

5,700 posts

222 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Im sitting here now taking 999 calls for the ambulance service, and if there is one thing this job has reinforced it is that you can never underestimate the total stupidity of the general public. Funnily enough it is not exclusively the mouth breathers either, although they are the worst offenders.

wendyg

2,071 posts

273 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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I agree some calls are beyond silly. People panic though, and don't think rationally. Sometimes I think they call the emergency lines hoping that the people on the end of the phone will judge it as an emergency or not, and tell them. They don't realise that the emergency calls must be taken seriously, regardless.

My most guilty waste of resources was one night MANY years ago, I was mock-fighting with hubby, he had a very sharp multitool, sliced my inner arm wide open. Bleeding profusely, but neither of us fit to drive due to alcohol, debated out options very quickly! Called amulance.

leeeeshad

1,479 posts

217 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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OllieWinchester said:
Im sitting here now taking 999 calls for the ambulance service
And your on pistonheads?

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

272 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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wendyg said:
I was mock-fighting with hubby, he had a very sharp multitool, sliced my inner arm wide open. Bleeding profusely,
Is it really play fighting if at least one of you is tooled up?

Kudos for some hardcore non-vanilla foreplay there.

Gas Monkey

127 posts

248 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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leeeeshad said:
OllieWinchester said:
Im sitting here now taking 999 calls for the ambulance service
And your on pistonheads?
hehe

MrMoonyMan

2,705 posts

241 months

Tuesday 29th December 2009
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Justayellowbadge said:
wendyg said:
I was mock-fighting with hubby, he had a very sharp multitool, sliced my inner arm wide open. Bleeding profusely,
Is it really play fighting if at least one of you is tooled up?

Kudos for some hardcore non-vanilla foreplay there.
Fair play for the extremely kinky foreplay there but points deducted for not just getting on with it and have a bloody messy session there and then...

and..

leeeeshad said:
OllieWinchester said:
Im sitting here now taking 999 calls for the ambulance service
And your on pistonheads?
You're, as in; you are. Very easy.