To ask why you've phoned the police?

I've called 999 for Police 3 times - all for home burglaries which were occurring at the time.

First time it happened I screamed at DH to "wake up and call the police" and he literally fell out of bed and said "what's the number?" 😆

The people in the flat above mine were having some sort of screaming/punching match. It was like 3am. Lots of thuds and shouts, and a scared womans voice shouting "stop it! stop it!"
Fortunately, they didn't live there long.

Wqlking in the park beside Southend seafront lost a daughter. She was delivered in a police car, she was very happy, the police were impressed she put her seat belt on (35 years ago) of course we were overwhelmed to see her

Young men fighting with machetes in a residential street when I was walking home at 9pm from my local underground station. Early morning, walking to work & passed an unattended rusksack in a telephone box at a busy intersection. Motorcyclist thrown from his bike when hit by a bus.

I called for a man (in pjs) wandering along a main road (between Hemel and St Albans). Behaving quite oddly, gave a vague reason (lost one of his slippers) as to what he was doing when I asked him. Didn't seem aware of the risk of cars. I was initially told it wasn't urgent enough (I actually called the local police number). Later they actually called me back to let me know other people had called an ambulance (he had received an injury AFTER they basically told me to leave him, so I'd gone to work). They wanted witness info.

They really aren't worth the effort of calling them. !

Once for the fire brigade when someone tried to burn the church next door down

Once for a drunk driver who literally drove up the bonnet of the car in front of me, flipped and landed down the side of the embankment

Several times for an ambulance for an elderly relative who was rather fond of the drink so fell on a regular basis trying to get to bed invariably resulting in needing stitches (how they never broke a bone if beyond me)

And the weirdest one was to report 2 loose horses in full turn out rugs trotting down the entry slip road into the M40! Ended up dialling 999 twice as for some reason the first call dropped - had a phone call from the police a couple of hours later to check I was ok as they'd had an unanswered call from my number 🤷‍♀️

The amount of male violence documented here is alarming

Oh, and

Police:
-When a neighbour was being aggressive to me and my friends (shouting, and then went down to their car and kicked the tyre and demanded they opened the door).

Ambulance:
-Chest pains (myself)

Fire:
-Arson (car in car park of abandoned building on the other side of my road)

Police:
-My abusive ex
-A neighbour's abusive ex (who later set their flat on fire, after I'd moved)
-Something I assumed was a stolen car market at the time (various very expensive cars being driven up and down our road on a relatively isolated estate in the middle of the night and dozens of people, including some riding off-road bikes), but which turned out to be a music video being filmed without permission

Wow, some of these are awful and terrifying.

Thankfully, I have not needed to call 999 up to this point. The only time I have phoned the police was to report a man who reversed (at breakneck speed, for no reason that I could see) into a parked car and then sped off, leaving it with a smashed-in wheel arch.

I would be devastated to find that sort of damage on my car so I gave both reg numbers to 101. Shite driving needs some accountability.

Called 999 for ambulance for DH following advice from pharmacist. They were lovely, assessed him abd saud that I had done the right thing calling them.

@orangeleopard - a delayed thanks. Yes we are fine now. Sadly my ex still has relapses but my son no longer sees him and I just speak with him to check in on him by phone.

I've had to call 999 three times, twice for an ambulance and once for the police.

One ambulance call was for a sporting injury and the other for a collapsed man outside my house. Had to call the police when my house was broken in to.

Yes when seeing a man attacking a woman in the street

a few had reported and two men went to help her and he turned on them he was terrifying she was able to run off into a shop and he ran off

I've only needed to call 999 once (thank goodness) when a drunk drinker crashed straight in to the shop opposite my house at 12:30am - went straight through the big front window and the car was literally in the shop. He then reversed out and took off down the road, lost control again, crashed resoundingly in to some poor person's parked car and came to a stop in a front garden. Luckily nobody was hurt and the driver was arrested. Very surreal night that was.

When I realised we had burglars in the middle of the night.

Once when my ex-boyfriend and his flatmate had a fight and wouldn't stop. With hindsight, I should have left them to it.

Once when my now deceased former partner escaped his care home and tried to break into our house in an angry, psychotic state. He was dying of a brain tumour. It was awful to have to see him taken away in the car (they just took him back to the home).

he was annoyed with his manager.

I can’t blame him - the guy was a dick - but very much the nuclear option.

Whoah. We’ve all got annoyed by HR at times, but still!!!

OMG. I’m in HR and had to call them when someone came into work with a machete!

I've had to call them several times. A few times when either myself or a colleague were threatened at work (the joys of HR)!. I've also rung them when I've witnessed accidents on the road several times.

Sorry to hear this happened to you

999 called this year when i discovered my son (10) on an adult live interactive website (my son was naked and our video camera was on). He’d been encouraged to take a look at it by an adult playing interactive video games.

My landlord had previously made advances yes he was a creep this night there was a man in my house, I didn't shout out to ask who it was I just called the police. Turned out it was him which i find very very weird. He had a key to my house but not hisxown and came to mine... he obv left his housecbefore a night out in a sober state and chose the key to my house. Wtf is your problem?? absolute crank. My sincere apologies that I can't see through walls, round corners and downstairs/ through floors & ceilings from my bedroom

Multiple times for work.

In my personal life, once when a bunch of teens had a party that ended in a street brawl of about 50 kids, once when I found a girl no older than 12 sat on the grass verge of a fast road crying, once when I followed an obviously drunk driver.