999 Day on the 9th of September

We all know when we are supposed to dial 999, or do we? A recent report states that the British public seem to be calling the emergency number for the most bizarre of reasons. Greater Manchester has a huge population and the emergency number is dialled around 6,500 times every day by people that need either the Police, Ambulance or Fire service. But, sometimes these calls are bogus or even for purposes we can only stand back and be astonished about.

The Greater Manchester Police force has just released recordings of some of the weird and downright stupid reasons people have called the number. One man angry about the cash amount he received for his win on a bet called 999 because he wanted to complain, whilst a woman called 999 just because she had no credit on her phone and needed to call someone.

A police spokesman stated:

“999 Day has been launched to appeal to the public to only ring 999 in a real emergency as tying up the lines unnecessarily puts people’s lives at risk and could delay someone in need of urgent help getting through.”