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.

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.

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.

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

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).

The amount of male violence documented here is alarming

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 🤷‍♀️

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. !

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.

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

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.

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?" 😆