How many times have you dialled 999?

Only ever dialed 999 once, and that was a few years ago when I was in the car with my Mum who was driving down a one way street, then all of a sudden from the row of parked cars on the side of the road was a kid who raced out on his bike without looking first, and went straight into the side of my mum's car (mum was doing 15mph) and was thrown straight onto the pavement.

Straight away I dialed 999 for an ambulance and they were on the scene within 10 minutes (Police turned up as well to check over the situation and to breathalyze my Mum as a precaution). The young lad was fine and as soon as he was knocked off his bike to start with he got up and insisted on getting on his bike again and ride off but we could tell he was in a bit of shock and his nose was bleeding a bit so we wanted to make sure he was ok. Ambulance staff confirmed he was fine and just a couple of bruises and a few scratched. Despite what happened, the young lad's Mum actually gave the lad a right telling off there and then and apologized to my Mum haha.

Also very nearly dialed 999 while at work earlier on this year after a private non-council bailiff trespassed into the offices on his own accord and refused to leave. He then wouldn't have any of it about him illegally entering the building but then as soon as the Police threat was mentioned he soon legged it.

Liam
 
Once, nephew was being a prat so decided to pretend to call the rozzers long story short I accidentally pressed dial to which I immediately put the phone down and picked it up to see if anyone was there I was horrified when I heard "999 what's your emergency?" I put it down 3 times before they rang back and gave me a telling off.

I've been unfortunate to have to split up a security guard and a girl caught stealing in work, he had slapped her to shut her up but only made it worse once the rozzers turned up she saw red and went ape **** to put it lightly hah, seeing some porky bird in ugg boots trying to run away clutching 2 bottles of Martini is actually quite amusing.
 
A few times, the last time was when some complete and utter idiot was trying to drive a car with a missing tyre, down my road. I thought construction work was going on at first until I looked out of my window and saw some idiot scraping down the street banging in to other cars.
 
Four.

1+2. Break-ins at the neighbours.
3. Elderly next-door neighbour was unwell.
4. Incident on M6 after which my car was leaking fuel. Police/Fire didn't want to attend as no physical injuries and sent the wobbles instead. Useless.
 
Many, many times.

Several for customers at work who have decided to have heart attacks and strokes while I'm on duty, and quite a few for epileptic fits and general breating issues. Unfortunatly, had an elderly gentleman die on me despite CPR :(

Also one for a lady with an unknown mental illness coming into the store with a knife threatening to slit her throat, then promptly locking herself in the disabled toilet. I really wasn't looking forward to seeing that door being opened. Thankfully she hadn't managed to do too much harm to herself, and is now hopefully getting the help she needs.
 
Never had to call the police myself, but members of my family have a couple times. Once when my parents car (along with several others parked next to each other) had their windows smashed, and also a second time when some ****** broke into our garage and a couple others (the garages in our area are not connected to the houses, they are off in their own little area), annoyingly a neighbour could hear it all happen but didn't do anything about it, so it wasn't until the day after that we realised what happened and had the police come.
 
Never. Me mother had to call the fire brigade once as my sister as a nipper had locked herself in the bathroom, can just about remember the firemen in uniform smashing the upstairs window in.

Neighbours had to call them once as someone broke into their garage but then fell asleep in the car, the coppers caught them dozing. Not to bright.
 
Ambulance a couple of times at work.

Fire brigade at home, twice. Once for a washing machine that caught fire and once for a gas leak.

I tried the gas escape emergency number and the response was too silly even for a scene in a farce. After giving my address and explaining that I could smell gas(*) strongly and hear a hissing noise, I was expecting an emergency response. Instead, I got a bored person not paying much attention. Maybe they were playing Farmville or painting their fingernails or something. After a bit of a delay they said, as though it was a problem and a surprise, I wasn't calling from the address I gave. The house that stank of gas and had gas hissing out loudly enough to be audible as soon as I opened the door. Amazingly, I had decided that it wasn't currently an appropriate place for making a phone call. They dithered and asked the same questions several times, then said they'd probably get someone out at some point within the next 4 hours. I'd already tried several times to explain that a large gas leak in a home was a serious risk and should be dealt with as an emergency, so the casual statement that someone might (or might not) be out to take a look within 4 hours didn't go down well. I hung up and called the fire brigade instead. They turned up within a few minutes.



* I know the gas itself is odourless, but the association is the whole point of adding the pungent stuff to it.
 
Once when five lads in a car decided to jump out their car and try to jump me. Luckily i saw it coming and was ready to run. I think my 400m sprint time that night would have rivaled Usan Bolt! The car got caught within 10 minutes . Result!
 
SheepBeast said:
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



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.
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Wait, people with mental problems are not worth his time?

Nice....
 
1. Some local scum were pulling knives of people & trying to get them to hand-over phones/money, called the police as I saw them coming before they got near - was about 15.

2. Four large aggressive rottweilers has escaped from one of the natives gardens during school leaving time, had to coax them away from the main streets (kids travel in) with a large stick as it was near school leaving time, police took forever to arrive - was 18.

3. While walking home I saw a car swerving between both sides of the road, almost hit a lamppost & was most certainly going to kill somebody - police arrived pretty fast - was about 19 walking home from a nightclub.

4. Some nice people decided to start attacking one of the bar-staff with a hammer for having the temerity to try to stop them kicking one of the bar-girls, ended up getting clawed/kicked in the back by some chav's while we prised the guys/girls off the bar staff - had to make a statement - was 20.

5. A friend got his jaw broken in a random assault by a group of chav scum, called the police & had to keep the group away from him waiting for them to arrive - amazed I didn't get a kicking - 22ish.

6. Saw some chav smash the window of a ground floor apartment & make off with the dudes wallet/phone he left near the window, called the police & went along with them in the car to try to find him - I recognised him as one of the aggressive crack-heads I had seen wondering the streets of Birmingham - 23ish.

I'm sure I've missed a few, but those are the ones I can remember.
 
Once when my mate's brother decided to try the new half-pipe at a local park in his roller blades. He essentially came off the top and just face planted into the deck, but put him arms straight out to break the fall. His left arm took the brunt of it, and his arm broke roughly half way down his forearm, then because of the tension from the muscles, tendon's or something, drew up and back, meaning his arm had a dog-leg in it.

So I was on the phone getting an ambulance, while my mate was trying to keep his brother calm and stop him looking at it, meanwhile another mate was threatening the gaggle of local chavs that had gathered to gawk at the spectacle to jog on, lest they cause the injured lad to panic. Comments like "Urrrrgh! Look at his arm!" "That's sick!" and so forth really don't help an injured person at all. :mad:
 
Once, when a cyclist flipped off his ride about 100yds in front of us. I stopped and ran to help him, he was fitting so i put him in recovery, dialled 999, they came and sorted him out.
Police rang me later to say he was ok and on the mend. Had a great big dent and gash in his forehead though, just below his helmet.
Also, once our cleaner was polishing the phone and must have hit 999, and all the police operator could hear was muffled sounds, lol.
They rang us back but didn't beleive our story so sent someone round to investigate.
That was back in the day though, nowadays they're too busy catching....well, colds more than criminals really.
 
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