To ask why you've phoned the police?

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It's given as advice on here all the time but who has ever dialled 999 and was it for something major?

I've called for football fans fighting and letting off flares at cars, so genuine emergency.

I’ve called 999 a number of times - seeing some people struggling in a river, something on fire, car crash and finding my Mum had passed away when I let myself into her house after not being able to get hold of her.

When broken down on the motorway with extremely young and unpredictable children in the rain. They initially didn't want to help us but did call back and send someone.

I hadn't realised you get out thru to your local police department when you ring 999 and ask for police!

Domestic abuse next door.

I called them about 4 years ago. I live above a parade of shops and one morning at around 3am,I was woken up by the most almighty bang. I looked out of the window to see a van ram-raiding the mini-supermarket. By the time the police arrived 5 minutes later,they had gone.

Called once when I was clearly behind a drunk driver who was swerving everywhere, off the road etc.

Horse loose on the A1 in the dark (sadly it was hit and died)

Someone trying to run across the A1 on foot who kept darting out and back and was likely to cause an accident

Fire by the side of the road (that was the fire brigade but it’s still 999)

Blokes getting into a physical fight by the side of the road (one drove off before police arrived, the other wandered off bleeding)

Best practice is 999 is for something happening Right Now. If the situation is likely to get worse whilst you’re in a queue call 999

Some years ago. I witnessed someone being stabbed to death in my porch.

A few years ago when I was effectively kidnapped by a man when I had gone to trap cats in his garden and he wouldn't let me leave.

And two weeks ago when I witnessed an utterly deranged driver hitting a motorcyclist at around 60 mph and driving off (caught on dash cam). Honestly - you wouldn't believe the footage.

Oh, and once when the neighbours were having an almighty drunken punch up and one was yelling for help.

Pretty sure that's all of them ....

Oh, forgot one - burglary in progress in house on the other side of me.

Think I’ve called the police 4 times.

1. Some woman was standing on my street screaming whilst two men tried to get her into a car
2. I saw teens with knives on the tube.
3. I saw a teen driving an e-scooter on the hard shoulder of the M4 at night
4. A lady was standing on my road having a full on row with a man inside a house at 3am, in -5 temperature during lockdown

Never heard outcomes of any. The last one was stood there screaming for nearly 4 hours.

Oh 5. Pedestrians in the Bryn Glas tunnel (M4 tunnel)

Never called 999. I once called 101 because on my way to work in the snow I was approached to a young woman wearing no shoes or coat etc who started rambling at me telling me she was an angel and not making much sense and she started to cry before she walked off, I wasn’t sure whether she was on drugs or had mental health issues but she clearly was in a vulnerable state so I called the police in the hope they might be able to send someone to the area to see if they could help, they said they would although I’m not sure if they did or if so whether they found her/ what came of it.

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!

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!

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 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 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.

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 💔

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!

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.

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.

Never called 999 for the police.

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

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

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

They called me back the following day.

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).

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