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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some people really get themselves worried and in a state for no reason.<\/p>\n
This is especially true of one woman from the UK, who recently rang 999 because she had lost her specs.<\/p>\n
She was standing outside Specsavers, but after being unable to locate her glasses took the drastic action of getting the police on the case.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, the force was not too impressed with this complete waste of their time.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Craig Downham cautioned: "There's been a marked increase in this. The 999 number should only be used when life is threatened, people are injured, or there are offenders nearby."<\/p>\n
Another lady phoned the cops and asked them to check her plug sockets because the fire service had refused the request.<\/p>\n
It does seem ridiculous that these people think it is acceptable to get on the blower over such trivial issues and I hate to think what way they would get on if there was actually something wrong with them.<\/p>\n
Posted by Mark Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The lady could not find her glasses and so phoned the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n