oh dear, dd3 just dialed 999!! [blush]

[misdee]

she was going ah ah ah into the phone as well

i am so embaressed.

the man was saying 'please can you say what emergency service you require'

what if i'd just hung up and not explained it was my baby, would they have sent a police car round?

They would have tried to call back first.

Been there! My ds1 phoned the police once nad put the phone down when someone answered. I was in the kitchen, the phone rang
"Hello Mrs Saltire, its Cambridgeshire Constabulary here. We had a silent 999 call from this number, is everything ok"

I explained that Ds must have done it, and they were very nice, as they were the second time, but by the third time in a week they were saying
"can we just suggest Mrs saltire that you move your phone out of his reach"

"The phone is on top of the unit, he climbed onto the table to raech it", was my reply!

i think they call you back to check.
my dd2 called them a few months ago and hung up, they never rang back mind you, good job it wasnt a genuine call!

The emergency services threatened to blacklist us because they reckoned we were making 999 calls from our phone. They would ring us and accuse us but we had no knowledge of them. Then they tried to suggest it was dd but she was only 4 months at the time so highly unlikely she could have reached the phone on the shelf . We were quite concerned, they obviously thought we were malicious time-wasters. Anyhow someone we spoke to at BT said it could be the phone just dialling rogue 999 calls. So we changed the phone and hey presto no problems!

They call you back.....ds has done this too....

if you hang up they leave the line connected for a period, so if you hung up and picked the phone up again the operator would stil be there.

My ds did this once. We have a chordless phone, so I heard the beeping as he played with it, took it off him, then pressed the green button to make sure we had a ring tone, and this woman on the other end said ... hello? this is the police? ... I was, of course, profucely apologetic.

i was an operator years ago and answewed 999 calls. we always knew when it was a child mucking about. so I am sure it is the same now.

ds did that once, they called me back and asked if everything was ok. i said it was, sorry, was ds and they then asked if someone was there and i couldnt tell them i was in trouble. i was so embarrassed!

i did that at work once, you know press '9 for an outside line. felt a fool when they phoned back!

DD did it a couple of times when she was little, now she's always 'phoning' the police & asking can you come & put Mummy in jail as she's being horrible to me. I'm dreading the day she puts the 2 together!

It happened to us the week DD was 2. She also manged to pull an exposed film out of its container and set off our burglar alarm in the early hours of the morning.
She is now a delightful 12 yr old!!

ds1 did this when we were staying with relatives - had no idea until a policeman turned up at the door! He was very nice about it

Dd dialled 999 the first morning I was alone with 2 children! There I was changing ds's nappy, and I realised that not only was she playing with the phone, but someone was speaking to her... The display showed she'd pressed 9 4 times. They were pretty understanding.

My mum, on the other hand, got quite a telling off for not being more careful when cleaning her phone.

Ds did the same, aged about 18 months - I grabbed the phone and started apologising profusely....too profusely...the woman kept going "Yes ok, can you please replace the handset now"

A few years ago when my nephew was about 7 he was playing a Sonic the Hedgehog game, and my BIL asked for a go. Nephew said no, but BIL took the controls anyway. Nephew throws paddy, gets ignored, rings 999 because he knows that the police tell naughty people off. All the operator could hear was my nephew shrieking at the top of his voice "Daddy, no! No, Daddy, you're killing me, please stop!".

The three policemen who turned up on the doorstep five minutes later tried to be stern but couldn't stop themselves laughing ...