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'McDonalds won't serve me': The banal calls that prevent genuine emergency calls gett

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  • pmduk
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    The OP referred to a call received by West Midlands Police.
  • DCFC79
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    lemontart wrote: »
    I work on an emergency line and it scares me that peeps have not go a clue when calling an emergency number I do wonder how some make it through the day.

    I also wonder how people manage with the normal day to day stuff.
  • lemontart wrote: »
    I work on an emergency line and it scares me that peeps have not go a clue when calling an emergency number I do wonder how some make it through the day.
    These peeps do manage to work out how to breed without dialling 999 though, which is perhaps more scary.
  • the 3rd operator had way too much patience
    Blackpool_Saver is female, and does not live in Blackpool

  • DCFC79 wrote: »
    I also wonder how people manage with the normal day to day stuff.

    Judging by some of the posts I see on this forum on a daily basis, I'm not sure they do tbh.

    The article doesn't surprise me in the slightest. :(
  • sarahg1969
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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).
  • pmduk
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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.
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