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Millions wasted by emergency services on hoax/silly calls


Every year, several hundred hoax callers are calling 999 more than 10 times a month. These stupid calls include people saying:
  • ·       Is the green part of a potato poisonous?
  • ·       A lady complaining about sprinkles on her ice cream
  • ·       Marmalade theft
  • ·       A chicken walking down the road
  • ·       A man calling to say he had a fly in his ear
  • ·       A man with a ring stuck on his finger
  • ·       A woman who dropped a TV remote and asked for it to be picked up
  • ·       A woman who needed a lift home

There were among more than 31,000 non – urgent calls made to the Welsh Ambulance Service in 2013 – 2014! Out of that number, only 3 of them needed hospital treatment. In my opinion, those who ring up the emergency services for unnecessary things should be prosecuted. The emergency services have been able to make a list of the most frequent callers and prosecuted them.

Among those prosecuted was Anil Gautan, 28, from Church Road in Bradmore, Wolverhampton, who was jailed for 12 weeks in February after he plagued the 111-medical helpline with 5,000 bogus calls between August and November last year, claiming to be ill.

People who are taking advantage of the emergency services are selfish and are ‘putting other people’s lives at risk’ as someone could be dying, but the hoax callers are taking up all the time. How on earth is this acceptable?!

The emergency services are here for us; to save our lives and this is how the selfish people out there repay them?

Comments

  1. EllaApril 2, 2020 at 1:26 AM

    I like this piece alot. It was engaging to me as it stated clear facts and everything in the article was completely true. I think that anyone who reads this article will agree with it after reading. This piece contains rhetorical questions which i think engage the reader as they will answer them in their heads and become more attached to the piece and want to read on. I really like the end sentence as the use of a question is used here also.

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  2. UnknownApril 2, 2020 at 2:01 AM

    Ella,
    I agree with what you've said. The rhetorical questions are engaging and the facts give it credibility.
    Miss C.

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