Have You Ever Dialed 999 , If So Why?

[EDDIE51]

I was watching the TV show ''999 what's your emergency'' and was astounded at some of the reasons people dialed 999. One man called because he was living in a Salvation Army hostel and he said '' they keep coming into my room and playing loud music'' I laughed at that one, visions of the Salvation Army brass band playing in his bedroom.
I have dialed 999 4 times, once for a fire, twice for a robbery and once for a car crash.
How about the rest of you?

[murraymints]

yes twice both RTA's that I came across in recent years, sadly a fatality in the first, but I was able to do first aid on the driver of the second ,after pulling him from an upside down car , with tourniquet 'till ambulance arrived, which took some time as they could not find us in a rural location

[woofgang]

Car crash once and accidentally twice. We used to live in Surrey and at the time if you phoned Debenhams and a number dropped out when dialling, you got the 999 response. The 999 switchboard knew about the issue and I believe it got fixed.

[murraymints]

him should be her ^

[albaqwerty]

once - car crash.
Bits of one car spread across 3 front gardens.
How passengers from either vehicle escaped unharmed - I'll never know.

[Islay]

Yes 9 times, 3 RTA's all with deaths involved and the rest were stabbings.

[bhg481]

Once - travelling down the M40 there was a full car bumper in the middle of the outside lane.

[douglas9401]

Yes, when a car and trailer overturned on the motorway in front of me.

I remember sometimes being connected to 999 when we still had local dialing codes. If you had a shaky hand and the key registered a 9 twice you were put through.

[naomi24]

Yes, for ambulances, road traffic accidents, and once to report a car on fire on the hard shoulder of a main A road. Idiots who abuse the system don't make me laugh. They make me sick.

[Cloverjo]

I was at bus stop which had a phone box and some kids phoned 999 just for 'fun'. I hauled them out by their collars.

For serious, I've phoned for my mum on Christmas Day. The man was lovely even though he'd been called out for ridiculous reasons.

[emmie]

several times, once for the neighbours who were kicking off with the biggest row i had ever heard, the kids were screaming, not nice at all.

[emmie]

once when a woman on the bus was unconscious, and we tried to revive her, called 999 for the ambulance service, not sure what happened to her, i had hoped she survived.

[EDDIE51]

In the case of the car crash I was the only one of 12 who bothered to dial 999. All the others just got out their phones and started putting it on Facebook . I asked one of them why they had not dialed 999 and she said ''Oh, the police look at Facebook, so they will know anyway''

[murraymints]

that's shocking ! in both my cases I was the first on the scene and witnessed the second happening,

[Islay]

Well mine were all whilst on duty and some involved my colleagues

[roopower]

Once, my neighbours car caught fire in the road outside my house.

[emmie]

i also dialled 999 when i found a guy lying prone on the pavement outside wood green shopping centre, people just walked around him, which i couldn't believe. as it turned out he was dead drunk, but who's to know.

[Prudie]

Twice - for a RTA I came across and then for an ambulance for a guy at work who it turned out was having a stroke.

[Peter Pedant]

there was a knock on my door
and leddy said - there is a man chasing me

I couldnt dial 999 fast enough

[bednobs]

once for animals on the carriageway
once for a fire on the side of the road
once because there was a man lying in the hard shoulder
once for a field on fire