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.

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

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

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.

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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

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 🫤

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sorry to hear this happened to you

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.

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

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

he was annoyed with his manager.

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

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).

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

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.

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 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.

@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.