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I read last week that an MP called the fire brigade on a 999 call because her boiler wasn't working.

 

Whilst she was wrong, at least tell the story right. The boiler was sparking, shaking and she was convinced it was about to explode. Ok she was a bit dippy, but i'd be a bit ****ing nervous if i had a gas device sparking uncontrollably and shaking

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I've rung it a few times, the most memorable being when my car went up in smoke on the M27!

 

The funniest one was when my missus rang 999 because she looked out of the kitchen window and saw a hooded chav trying to bolt crop the padlock on our shed door... at 1.30pm... on a Saturday afternoon... in the summer. She shouted at him and he pegged it. If that wasn't bad enough the police picked him up 20 minutes later in Millbrook, casually strolling down the street still carrying the large red bolt croppers.

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After a night on the lash I was walking home past some chavvy council estates and I found a man who was about 70-80 who had fallen down about 30 steps. I phoned an ambulance. He told me to f*ck off and leave him alone coz' he was alright albeit being covered in blood. When the ambulance arrived he was put on a stretcher and called me an interfereing little c*nt just before they closed the doors. He was a lovely old chap.

 

Never did hear anymore about that.

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That and because Robsk is incredibly boring.

 

That's true!!

 

I called 999 because a lady fell down in the restaurant and broke her ankle - the jaunty angle of leg in boot was enough to convince me...

 

The ambulance took just over one hour to get to her, in the meantime she was laying on the cold floor shivering despite the numerous blankets piled on top of her, with no pain relief.

 

Shocking service IMO.

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I've called them three times, one of each actually. The first time was for an ambulance when I came home and my mother was vaguely crawling, mostly lieing, on the floor vomiting all over herself. She was drugged and drunk according to the ambulance man. The second time was when I was babysitting and I heard footsteps to the door and the door handle move, assuming it was the parents I said hello and prompty heard running away, so i called the police. I don't think that was totally necessary as he obviously ran away when I said hello. The third one was when I came down the stairs to an awful lot of smoke, went in the kitchen to find the microwave on fire, so i called the fire brigade. They were very nice and even fitted us a new fire alarm.

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Back when I was in boarding school, a few kids thought it would be hilarious to ring up the fire service as a hoax.

 

Little were any of us to know that a former pupil, an expellee nonetheless, would torch the staff room. I'm actually suprised the fire crews showed up.

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I did call the Fire Brigade once. I was 8 months pregnant and I'd locked myself out. There was no way I could crawl in the one, very small, window on the first floor that was open.

You didn't think to call a locksmith? Preferably one who wouldn't have the possibility of attending your 'disaster' while someone burned to death unaided elsewhere.

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The firebrigade wastes millions of pounds and man hours each year answering pointless calls, while they should be attending saving a family etc, although there is plenty of pumps to go round wasting government money is not a good idea.

 

Think before you dial. I see the Ambulance service is struggling, and now the fireservice hass to reduce there expenditure massively before 2010

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You didn't think to call a locksmith? Preferably one who wouldn't have the possibility of attending your 'disaster' while someone burned to death unaided elsewhere.

 

It was in the days before mobiles were common. I had to use a coin box and I didn't have any money with me. Also I had my son with me (he was 2 at the time).

 

I did say that I understood if it took a long time for them to attend. They were very kind and I made them a cuppa once we got inside - so obviously they were in no rush to go elsewhere.

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The ambulance took just over one hour to get to her,

 

Shocking service IMO.

 

Called an ambulance for my dad 2 weeks back, and it arrived as I put the phone down! Turns out they were at traffic lights at the top of the road when I called.

 

Truly amazing service IMO.

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You don't think it was a gross misuse of the emergency services then? In that case, I stand corrected.

 

Not at the time and in the circumstances I didn't, and obviously nor did they.

 

I suppose I could have tried to get in / break in myself, having tethered my toddler to a tree, and taken the chance that I didn't go into labour and have to call the emergency services.......

 

Oh.

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You never know when they might be though... hence the word 'emergency'. If it was the pre-planned fires sub-department then it was, of course, different.

 

i am fully aware yes. but often they fill their days doing home fire safety visits, or speaking to the elderly/single parents about fire safety and installing fire alarms

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