Monday, January 05, 2009

Emergency Measures

Yes, Of Course It’s A Life-Threatening Situation

A woman in Manchester dialled 999 because she was furious she could not get through to vote on the TV show Strictly Come Dancing. Others in a string of ridiculous emergency calls included a priest complaining he was not allowed to use a toilet in a W. H. Smith store and a man who said shop staff had put unwanted mushrooms on his pizza.

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8 comments:

  1. OK, it's official. We are messed up!

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  2. Anonymous2:18 AM

    There are some very strange goings on in our world!

    CJ xx

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  3. now that is very surreal...

    how many surrealists does it take to change alight bulb!!
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    .fish

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  4. The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me! :0

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  5. Wow! Those people need to see some real emergency casualties and understand how much they are preventing other important calls getting through!

    I say give people who make silly calls like this a very large fine... only this way will they stop being bloody idiots!

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  6. I'd make a lousy emergency telephone operator, I don't know how these guys manage to remain straight-faced and polite with these idiotic calls.

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  7. ah yes...and there's the "what time is it?" call, to which I trained my officers to answer "time to get a new clock."
    Sandi

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