999 call............delay!

[Marlin.45]

got to say they can be good and bad i think it all depends on your call sometimes it can take hours for police to arrive when i was working in the night club, but on the other had i was involved in an incident 13 months ago n i made the call to 999 and with 20 mins there were 42 emergency service vehicles on the scene was quite a shock to see so many so fast!

 

But were any of them Police?

 

I managed to torch the thatch on my house back in 2005 so understandably I had to make the 'call'. In the end I had 12 (seriously) fire vehicles here within 30 minutes (a lot of thatches in close proximity) including the military airfield foam truck.

 

It was a quiet night for them after all.

 

As a side note if anyone knows/is a firefighter in the Dorset/Hants/Wilts area and has to sit through the 'how to deal with a thatch fire' video. That was my place. Damn filmies

[Alex Reid]

yeh loads of police ambulance the lot!

 

i was the first to come down the road after a truck had crused a car with 6 in, into another truck whihc was consequently on fire and had melted the road!

[Alex Reid]

and it melted my tyres onto my rims which was less than pleasing!

[Jellystock]

The Police aint as stretched as they make out, just bone bleedin idle.

 

You probably rang at scran time.

 

You try doing the job smart arse!

[Mesterh]

The only way to get instant response from the old bill is to tell them that you or someone else is holdong a gun and is about to use it to cause harm to others. They will be there like a flash. My neighbour caught some lads going through his sheds one night and rang the police, who said they would get there within 45 minutes as they were very busy. He rang back about 45 seconds later telling them he had his gun out and was going to shoot the burglars, and within 3 minutes there were police everywhere. On being told that he had lied to the police he replied they had done the same, and with tails between their piggy legs they arrested the offenders and left, rather red faced.

 

That true?

 

I have heard the same thing but slightly different.

[Mick Stockbridge]

You try doing the job smart arse!

 

I could do it with one hand tied behind me back........you only need one hand to take a bung.

[woodworm]

Someone dropped some litter.

 

[Jellystock]

I could do it with one hand tied behind me back........you only need one hand to take a bung.

 

you need 2 hands, one for the bung and one to touch their arse as they left.

 

"Mind how you go sir"

[Alex Reid]

Unfortunatly it wasnt a case of someone droping some litter in the acident a whole family of six lost their lives and i was unfortunate enough to see their 10 week old baby girl die! i wish someone had dropped some litter but big thumbs up to all the crews involved! just a shame me and my mate didnt get there a few seconds eairler before it went on fire!

 

My old man was an ambulance driver and it seems to be a case of timeing! i live in a town with i think its about 300,000 covered by two ambulances, so if you call and they are both busy then you either wait for one to cover from another station which can be as far away as preston liverpool or sometimes wigan and you can wait a long time specially sice the kids a&e has moved to ormskirk!