Women calls 999 over snowman theft

Why dont we have a 3 digit non emergency phone number, thonl I've herd usa use 311. Also heard 1/3 of 999police calls are non emergency and 9/10 for ambulance no idea how accurate they are,. But obviously they need a new system and/or education campaigns.

9999 for a snowman is brilliant, is there a recording of the call?
 
Apparently the local Police are looking for a small boy dressed in slippers and a brown dressing gown. Witnesses say they heard him singing "Walking in the air" in a high pitched voice as he made his escape with the Snowman......
 
Firstly this woman is a moron.

Secondly, I think that we should have an easy to remember number like 777 for example, which connects you to your local police station for "non-emergency" issues. There are lots of really stupid people out there who don't know that 999 isn't just the number you need to call the police about anything. If it was made obvious "999 for emergencies, 777 for all other police issues" then it might save the 999 operators a load of wasted time and effort.

EDIT: Just spotted this has already been discussed further up the page.
 
She sounds like a total drongo.

Off topic but where did you get that word from?
Around 1995 a group of us decided to come up with a new word for an idiot and we would use it over and over until we heard it become the norm.
The first thing we had to do was find a word and went through a few magazines with 100s of suggestions until one of us came across an Australian bird called a Drongo.
We used the word everywhere we went up until 2007 when we all parted.
It was obviously used by most of the factory we worked at but this is a first hearing it coming from West Lothian.
 
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