To ask why you've phoned the police?

Twice after finding a collapsed person in the street. Ambulance duly came but both were known to the crews as homeless with substance misuse issues. Separate incidents.

Once with a dangerous driver who was later pulled over by police. That went to court. Luckily 2 of us in the car in order to corroborate.

Once when a nearby hay field went up in flames. The bailer had caught light. Fire brigade arrived quickly.

I had the same with old neighbours, it went on for some time, and she kept taking him back.

It was getting pregnant that caused her to make a change, and she eventually called the police herself and got a restraining order against him.

to report domestic abuse/violence (old neighbours), more than once :-(

when someone was on the wrong side of the barrier on a motorway bridge.

when some kids in a car went flying off the road and through a barrier in to Sainsburys carpark. Scared the shit out of me but they quickly scarpered.

I’m really sorry this happened to you and your child. I hope things are better now

I heard an ex neighbour screaming and dialled 999, found out later her partner was attacking her and tried to strangle her. DH thought we should mind our own business, but it was horrible to hear and I couldn't ignore it. He was removed from their house but she took him back within weeks ☹️

I called them once to my neighbours who I didn't know much about, in the middle of the night. I could hear the woman screaming and what sounded like pleading with her husband to stop etc.
Turned out she was in advanced labour and having a home birth.

I have CCTV all round the exterior of my house which is linked to my phone, I called them as I was viewing a man trying to break in via my kitchen window at 04.15. I told them that they needed to get there sooner rather than later, or Billy Burglar's head would be meeting my baseball bat as he comes through before being carved up like a Christmas turkey.

Called the police to report two young boys ambling down the hard shoulder of the motorway.

Called the fire brigade when my neighbours house went up in flames in the middle of the night and she was hanging out of the bedroom window screaming her head off, understandably.

I dialled 999 on a journey when someone had dropped a sofa (?) off a bridge onto a dual carriageway. Cars were swerving all over the road to avoid it and there was nowhere to stop to go and move it (plus quite a busy road that should be closed to do so. I hope they got there before someone hit it 🫤

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I called them because I was being assualted - I'd been hit over the head about 10 times with a large vase, thumped, bitten, kicked and scratched. I managed to get the phone and she kept cutting me off or putting her hand over my mouth and nose and it was left to the police to trace the call and turn up. Won't go into the circumstances so please don't ask but it was incredibly frightening and the police had to break in and pull her off me. I needed stiches and I've still got some scars. I've managed to blank a lot of it out but I do remember being wheeled out of the cubicle, looking back and realising that there was blood on the floor, on the walls and some on the CEILING and that it was mine.

I think if police hadn't turned up she might have killed me - she finally got a conviction for GBH. Our police aren't perfect but that night they were amazing.

Otherwise we called them when the car got stolen at 4am and they were actually pretty quick to respond

A man once rang the doorbell then barged past me and forced his way into our student flat. He sat down on the sofa and refused to leave. He was relatively polite and non-confrontational apart from the obvious fact that he'd invaded our home. He was hoping to be arrested and get some food and shelter in a cell, and said as much to us. We called the police and also the caretaker for the hall of residence.

The caretaker came first, a large ex-forces chap, who managed to persuade the chap to leave by dint of his physical presence and some carefully chosen words which trod a fine line between clearly implied threat and plausible deniability. The police arrived a little later and went after the guy to "have a word with him". I don't think they planned to lock him up as that was exactly what he wanted. I'm not sure what alternative approach they had in mind and didn't ask for details.

I called when 2 escaped horses were galloping along a minor a road towards town at 10.00 pm.,

Presumably because she was in a different room, only heard him, and was not about to go and confront him?

He previously made advances but you didn't know who he was?

I called twice. First as my downstairs neighbour, who had direct street access, was drunk, shouting at the top of his lungs that he was going to go in and kill his partner. They had a glass outer door he was kicking and I heard it break.
Second time when I found my husband collapsed on the floor and called for an ambulance (a heart attack, sadly he had already passed).

When someone was trying to break my door down to get in and, "fucking twat" me.

They called me back the following day.

Couple of car crashes.
Found my dad dead.
Drunken/Drugged man in the middle of a very fast and very busy fuel carriageway- to this day I’m amazed the Sainsbury’s lorry managed to miss him

Never called 999 for the police.

Reported arson on a tree to them about 10 years using the non-emergency number.

Yes when three men were trying to break into our house. Dog started barking, looked out the bedroom window and there they were at the back door. The weirdest thing was they didn’t flee when they realised they’d been disturbed, just stood there shouting at us?! And they had a Rottweiler with them. What on earth? Who brings a dog to burgle a house? Any way, police came and they caught them wandering the streets as the dog made them very easy to spot. It was terrifying.

I called 999 the night my dad died. He’d had a heart attack.
I also called 999 when someone driving in the opposite direction to me pointed at a gun out his car window at us.

2 occasions:

1. In my early 20s. I was walking alone in the woods and a completely naked man approached me. There had been a series of 'flashings' in the area so assume it was the same guy.

1. More recently - got into a car accident and was stuck in the third lane of the motorway. Police had to stop traffic so we could get out...very embarrasing!

Police: when I was quite young and saw some dodgy people at the top of my neighbours drive (it was my neighbours friends)

Ambulance: once when (same neighbours) were having a domestic and one of them faked overdosing on fly spray
Another time, tragically, when discovering a friend had caused themselves to die. The paramedics and police were amazing 💔

I've rung 999 when late dp tried to yank steering wheel when I was driving & then punched me in the face. Police turned up within 5 minutes & because there were his beer cans in car that he claimed were mine, I had to do a breath test, I hadn't had anything to drink. He was arrested & taken to station until he sobered up.

When late dp threatened to kill my parents when I visited them, then locked himself in my car & refused to get out, he was arrested & charged with being drunk & disorderly.

When lady on top floor of my flats was banging on floor & screaming for help, turned out she was an alcoholic & had suffered a withdrawal seizure, police & ambulance came, due to being disabled I couldn't get upstairs to try to help her.

When late dp was threatening to kill himself, got told ambulance would be 4 hours, so I dragged him in the car, took him to hospital myself.

Ds rang 999 when exh was trying to burn the house down with us all in it, he was only 6, I got hold of the phone & told them it was an accident, they sent the police for a welfare check & they ended up helping me pack the car to leave him, they even carried ds hamster & cage to the car, they took exh to hospital concerned he had overdosed.

Ds rang 999 when I collapsed with chest pains when late dp was dying, ambulance & paramedic car turned up, ambulance took me to hospital, paramedic car were good enough to take ds to my mum's as he was only 10.

It's not the coppers on the ground who are useless it's the CPS, the bar for taking a case to court is too high, they had evidence for exh trying to burn down the house & for raping me but neither case was accepted by the CPS & exh got away with both.

I've called for an ambulance after witnessing a biker come off their bike outside our house. I've called the police a few times - intruders trying to break into our shed, witnessing vandals on the roof of our village school, after being involved in a car accident and to report a dangerous driver on the motorway. I've not called 999 for the fire service but have contacted them to ask them to do a home safety check - they turned up in a fire engine and let my DS sit in it!

I've called 999 before when the drug dealer and his mum who lived in the flat above us sounded like they were being abusive to his young son (we haven't lived there for years now). Also reported to non emergency when an ex next door neighbour who I'd only spoken to once in about 3 years saw me walking down the street and tried to barge my babies pram out into the road even though I had already moved over so there was enough space on the pavement for her to get passed.
I forgot, I also called the police when a woman who was clearly drunk got into a car and was trying to start it, it was 9.20 in the morning and turns out she had just dropped her kids off to the school at the bottom of the road 😮

I've called 999 when I was in a bomb situation, when i witnessed DV and when a bloke crashed through my backyard and was trying to enter houses at stupid o'clock.

The fucker broke my gate!

When we were on holiday my daughter was watching the cctv camera at home and shouted there’s someone in our house. I glanced at the iPad and saw a man going in the front door. I phoned the police. Afterwards I took the iPad to look and saw she wasn’t watching live but a motion detect from before. The man going into our house was actually my husband 🤦‍♀️. Totally embarrassed, phoned the police back but they insisted on going and checking so my father in law had to meet them there with the key!