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'McDonalds won't serve me': The banal calls that prevent genuine emergency calls gett
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The OP referred to a call received by West Midlands Police.0
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the 3rd operator had way too much patienceBlackpool_Saver is female, and does not live in Blackpool0
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For me, just as bad are the 'cute' stories you read in the papers about parents who call out the fire brigade when a child has a potty stuck on its head (why can't they make their way to the station?) or people who call out the fire brigade to break into their car (presumably because it won't cost them anything when they could just break a window instead).0
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sarahg1969 wrote: »For me, just as bad are the 'cute' stories you read in the papers about parents who call out the fire brigade when a child has a potty stuck on its head (why can't they make their way to the station?) or people who call out the fire brigade to break into their car (presumably because it won't cost them anything when they could just break a window instead).
It works the other way around, I broke my wrist, left it to the next morning to go to hospital, rather than hassle with taxis, only to receive a serious lecture about having not called an ambulance.0
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