Women calls 999 over snowman theft

Glaucus · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:10

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?

Duke_ · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:10

DJMK4 said:
Whilst she was calling in, some poor sole was dying and in need of an ambulance.

Maybe, but surely they would have been put through to the ambulance service!

Kenai · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:13

lcg said:
The 999 call recording: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11910088

Sounds like a prank call to me to be honest :/

Kenai · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:16

AcidHell2 said:
Why dont we have a 3 digit non emergency phone number

They tried it and it still operates in some places but government funding was withdrawn shortly before it was rolled out nationally.

101 was the number.

peterattheboro · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:16

The woman, from Chatham, Kent

Says it all

Jimbo · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:33

She needs punching in the face.

Melm0 · 3 Dec 2010 at 12:52

Surely she needs to report a missing person, he's probably had enough of her and ran off

Deadbeat · 3 Dec 2010 at 13:09

Possible repost, but the BBC website has a transcript to listen to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11908583

gillywibble · 3 Dec 2010 at 13:17

Hilarious

Sankari · 3 Dec 2010 at 13:23

"We do have powers to prosecute people for misusing the 999 system, but in this case the woman genuinely thought this was a theft that she should report because she'd used pound coins for the eyes and teaspoons for the arms."

What the...? :confused:

The woman, from Chatham, Kent

Ah.

Andy90 · 3 Dec 2010 at 15:02

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......

joey1211 · 3 Dec 2010 at 15:08

lol. Always knew there was something fishy about that Aled Jones

Stretch · 3 Dec 2010 at 15:15

FortyFive said:
Classic.

Sig worthy

ringo747 · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:31

What a spanner! Honestly I don't know how people can be so thick.

oli356 · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:40

I want to know what she got told afterwards.. the 56second clip is so short!

mikeyp123 · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:44

Man, there is absolutely snow excuse for this.

*the coat is already in my hand*

peterattheboro · 3 Dec 2010 at 16:51

Just listened to the transcript but could it be possible that the Snowman just melted?

sammo62 · 3 Dec 2010 at 18:11

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.

SexyGreyFox · 3 Dec 2010 at 18:12

Morgoth said:
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.

ElectroBlaster · 3 Dec 2010 at 18:32

It will be really dumb when she builds another one, the weather improves and then it melts! She calls the police shouting that god took it this time lol.