"Someone Has Stolen My Snowman!"

Hi Janey. She may be lying who knows but her and The LORD. Oh well what goes around comes around. She did a pretty silly thing calling the emergency number.

She sounded as though she was "two screws short of a toolbox" in my opinion.

When all's said and done, she's been a bit silly and who knows? She may have been lying about the coins..or the snowman..or both!

I know she hasn't been fined, just reprimanded by the Police, as they know more than anybody else that her daft call could cost someone else their life..so it's that they have concentrated on. In a way, I'm glad it's made the news and I'm sure people will take on board what the Police have said, rather than what the caller did. I'd like to think so anyway!

Janey you are right! I am a nurse in a nursing home and we had a situation where the sicker person had a delay in getting to the hospital because of someone else wasting Emergency Services. This girl at work hurt her foot several months ago and was on restricted duty. She was mad because Worker's Compensation didn't approve a surgery that she thought she needed. She called 911 because her foot hurt. Not even 5 minutes after the paramedics left with her, another resident went into respiratory distress and had to wait for an ambulance from a further away station to come get her because the girl who didn't need it used the ambulance from down the street. Thankfully, the respiratory resident survived and is doing fine.

Oh dear. That's unfortunate. I'm glad the respiratory resident is doing fine but it isn't always so in these situations, is it?

That is how it should have gone, I imagine... Some people consider themselves too important... Self-important fool, as Holmes calls them... ;)

As far as I know she got reprimanded by them. I should imagine someone important probably rang her up to tell her not to do it again as she may stop a "real" emergency call from getting through.

Are you into Sherlock Holmes then? Recently, we had a MODERN version of Sherlock on the telly. It pulled in so many viewers that the BBC just have to make some more. It was brilliant comparing the old with the new..but I don't know so much about the old so don't go quizzing me about it!

I really couln't be bothered stealing a snowman either. Hubby reckons it probably melted and she was too thick to realise!

She was definitely the last in the queue when they were handing out brains. I'm just glad it wasn't someone up north. Southerners are always saying we're thick..well, on that evidence, those darn sarf are catching up rapidly in the stupidity department!

I should be relieved that this isn't limited to England..but I'm not.

That's how I feel about the Northeast and California. They think the rest of the country is "thick". Not all, of course, but way too many.

I know charges for 999 calls have been banded about for years. Different numbers other than 999 for non-urgent calls as well. No excuse for this woman though. Shown up on national media..definitely the way to go with people like her!

Or no brain at all!

Well, yes, that's what the lady at the emergency call centre thought initially..and I would too. No way would I think she meant "a snowman made of snow that I made myself." What a silly woman she was. I hope she got a good telling off by the Police..in fact, I know she did, and quite right too!

Even if I were to call and report something stolen from my yard, unless the thief was still in my yard I would not use the emergency number, but I would use the other number.

Yes, I've done that myself. Rang the number for the actual police station rather than 999. It's common sense really, isn't it my friend?

She has been reprimanded but not fined..although she should be, I agree!

That's ok, it's happened to me once in a while.

Sorry about the double posting...my internet went on the blink for a minute or so...

Neither would I!

999 calls are for emergencies ONLY and this woman should (and will) know this. Maybe if the call wasn't free then she would've thought twice about dialing 999 like that. Silly woman!