Nice People 13: Nice Save

zagubov

zagubov wrote: »

Oh dear. I saw it on the banner at the top of the forum page. It's gone now. Martin must have been looking forward to it so much he brought it forward.;)
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5186558

And it's back already and it's just after 11PM! What's going on?:p

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Hadn't thought of that
I'll add that to the list of possibles.... but with them being 200 miles away and not having keys, it's not very useful

I assumed your sib would call the police, and they'd stare in through the windows, etc.

However, that raises the practical question of how your sib can call the police 200 miles away? Dialling 999 connects your sib to his or her local force.

The same question arises with 'the internet of things': your phone wakes you up whilst you are away on holiday to tell you that someone has broken into your house or the house is on fire. But how do you connect to the right police or fire service?

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

I assumed your sib would call the police, and they'd stare in through the windows, etc.

However, that raises the practical question of how your sib can call the police 200 miles away? Dialling 999 connects your sib to his or her local force.

The same question arises with 'the internet of things': your phone wakes you up whilst you are away on holiday to tell you that someone has broken into your house or the house is on fire. But how do you connect to the right police or fire service?

Add your local police & fire station to your contacts?

vivatifosi

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Thanks Viva! It's just more of the same stuff in terms of this was proposed around the time I first got ill. In 1992. I really want the roll eyes smiley here! :rotfl: It must have been around then that the psychiatrists lead by a certain SW and accompanied by MS got their claws into this disease and took all the research money for a lot of really poor research that they are still trying to get away with. It's really unbelievable how much money has been frittered away on CBT and Graded Exercise, while trying to tell everyone basically ME patients were hysterics. Rather like MS patients used to be in the dim and distant past. I think a lot of it's to do with trying to save Insurance Companies and DWP money.

Thanks for the link though. Rather better reporting than some of it, the press release put out by The Science Media Centre is a disgrace! :eek: Here's what the ME Association has to say about both the research and the comments from those involved in SMC.

Do you have other ME or immune diseases in your family Maggie?

I ask because I had ME in the 1980s and early 1990s but now normal. It was a long way back though. We have other problems in the female line of my family, such as fibromyalgia, polymyalgia and lupus. I've often wondered if there's a link.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

.... your phone wakes you up whilst you are away on holiday to tell you that someone has broken into your house or the house is on fire. But how do you connect to the right police or fire service?

First world problems, eh!

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

Add your local police & fire station to your contacts?

You mean the front desk at the police station, manned by one PC who will pick up the phone in maybe half an hour, once he has finished taking down the driving licence details of the person he is dealing with?

lostinrates

Dialling 999 might connect to a local force but I am sure they have experienced things like

' s/he drunkenly called me from 100 miles away treating to kill our child who he has custody of right now'

' s/he called me to say good bye saying s/he wanted to end it all. S/he was criing and voice was slurred'



Local police stations ( outside a metropolis) are often regional apart from a phone box out side now, or at certain times of day anyway.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Dialling 999 might connect to a local force but I am sure they have experienced things like

' s/he drunkenly called me from 100 miles away treating to kill our child who he has custody of right now'

' s/he called me to say good bye saying s/he wanted to end it all. S/he was criing and voice was slurred'



Local police stations ( outside a metropolis) are often regional apart from a phone box out side now, or at certain times of day anyway.

Not sure I can justify ringing them up to find out how well this works.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Dialling 999 might connect to a local force but I am sure they have experienced things like

' s/he drunkenly called me from 100 miles away treating to kill our child who he has custody of right now'

' s/he called me to say good bye saying s/he wanted to end it all. S/he was criing and voice was slurred'



Local police stations ( outside a metropolis) are often regional apart from a phone box out side now, or at certain times of day anyway.

In Hertforrdshire, there are very few police stations open since the cuts. Watford, Stevenage, Hatfield, and Hoddesdon to be precise. Even big towns like St Albans and Hemel Hempstead, which between them probably have a population of 150,000, have no police opening hours whatsoever.

It's ridiculous.

michaels

This is one issue I have with the 'cost savings' generated by centralising services. Only costs to the organisation directly are considered, closing the police stations no doubt saves the police force money. But perhaps it costs not only individuals in time and money in having to travel further but also probably social services/benefits as those on benefits who have to travel to police stations can probably claim travel expenses back but I bet those costs are ignored when the police carry out their cost benefit analysis.