How many times have you dialled 999?

twice
1: attempted robbery 2 doors down
2: someone lobbing full cans of lager at my car and obviously drink driving, so phoned police while following them (from some distance). Nothing came of it.
 
mrbell1984 said:
3 times.

1) My rented house got smashed over when I wasn't in.
2) An old man required help as he was wandering about confused and acting strange.
3) A man I found collapsed on the road side on the path in the rain.
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I may be wrong but I don't think any of these needed 999?
 
Never had to personally but had to go into a hotel once and ask them to call 999 for an ambulance, back in the days before I had a mobile phone.
Found a drunk who had fallen over some road works and managed to crack his head open, guy was pretty confrontational but luckily he was so out of, he could bearly sit up so I stuck with him to make sure he didn't move about.
Things got interesting , when a bunch of guys from a coach at the hotel came over to help and the drunk guy started hurling racist abuse (they were Indian).
Thankfully a passing police car came along to lend a hand until the ambulance arrived.
 
Twice

A campervan was on fire on the motorway, the owners flagged me down as they didn't have a mobile. They actually where cooking chips in the back whilst driving!!!

Someone in a house opposite me in London was whipping a women in the street at 3am due to, what I could gather, flirting in a night club. The sad thing was another guy stopped in his car tried to help and they tried to pin him on hurting the girl, police let him get away quickly though.
 
Once - I saw someone getting the snot kicked out of them from my sitting room window and called the rozzers. After the gang cleared off, I went down and pulled him into the corridor in my block of flats. The gang were back within minutes, banging on doors looking for the guy, and only left when the police arrived about 15 minutes later.
 
personally never but i've been present once when my mate fell over and broke his collar bone and hit his head at the same time, so he was concussed and semi-delerious and didn't know where he was, as well as having a massive spike of bone showing underneath his skin :( my other friend phoned the ambulance while i helped make sure he didn't swallow his tongue or hurt himself further

andi said:
Once to a drunk man who fell flat on his face and knocked himself out. He got up and gave the paramedic a mouth full of abuse once he arrived, so he promptly got back in the car, thanked me for calling and drove off :D
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My brother works as a paramedic. Without exaggeration, 95% of his calls are similar to that, or people with mental problems (depression, suicidal etc). VERY rare for him to be called to something which is genuinely worth his time. Plus he works in central london too, so i imagine it's even worse in suburbs and rural areas. Don't envy him his job.
 
I've dialled the local police number a few times. Never needed 999 though thankfully.


Oh actually i have phoned 999 once, it was to report a fire. Just bins, but there were like 5 of them ablaze and they were literally straight outside someones ground floor flat.
 
A few times:

1) A person with a broken leg, they couldn't walk or get to hospital any other way
2) a fight in a pub, someone walked in and punched someone else
3) A person in front of me whilst I was driving was swerving all over the place and looked like they were drink driving, turned out they were 4 times the legal limit.
 
3

1: Burglary attempt on our house at 3am (turned out to be a disorientated pentioner locked himself out of his house)

2: Next door house fire

3: First on scene at motorcycle accident
 
flippant said:
Never. Sadly I can't say the same for my daughter, who was two at the time.

The nice dispatcher called me back, that was a fun conversation!
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I went one better than that when I was 3/4. My mum had flu and I was told to call 999 in an emergency. She was sleeping all day and really poorly so I thought it was the right thing.

Me:"my mummy is very sick. She's drank lots and taken some tablets but shes not getting better"

Cue two police officers coming round about 10 minutes later! They were playing good cop bad cop. One apparently told me off and said I was very naughty but the other said I did the right thing :o

Thankfully I've not had to call 999 since then.
 
Once I think to the police to report a violent crime, although I've heard many many fire brigade 999 calls, as I support a Command and Control/mobilisation system.
 
Never but almost.

Some guy got stabbed in a bus stop and the doorway of the pub I was in. He ran inside so loads of people had their mobiles out. Bar staff sat him on a chair and plugged it with someones jacket. Police were there pretty quickly because my town is quite rough at night.

Turns out he was stabbed 4 times, once in the liver so the attacker got charged with attempted murder.
 
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