No one was sent as the local police lacked the necessary skill, the spokesman said.


WTF? They even considered sending someone?!

Knitter, please.

Sew what?

calling 911 for a sewing problem ? ... that's a whipping

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Police and other emergency services receive thousands of nuisance and hoax calls each year including heavy breathers, people wanting taxis and those upset that their takeaway meals were bad.

Reminds me of this: Burger King 911 call

And this is wrong?

* A man rang to say there were two hedgehogs fighting on his lawn.

Hedgehog Fight!!!

/did he sell tickets?

Bob Ondeeznuts: Knitter, please.

Um...yes?

FTA: Other calls have included:
* A woman called to get police to make her boyfriend ask for her hand in marriage.

Oh yeah, she's a keeper.

ultraholland: Sew what?
Sew buttons!

I'm convinced that this has got to be the best place to live ever. If the incidence of violent crime and accidents is so low that people consider shiat like this an emergency, it has to be the safest place on Earth.

Rick Nelson, unavailable for comment.

"Last year, a bride in Christchurch, panicked by a large oil stain on her wedding dress, dialled 111 in a desperate plea for help."

I don't want to know how, why or what.

Such a joker, she keeps everyone in stitches...

laebshade: Reminds me of this: Burger King 911 call

Why did you just post a link to eBaum's world?

Every time you do, a little child dies.

skinink: "Don't baste me, bro, don't baste me!!!"

What the hell is he wearing? Are those supposed to be shorts?

I heard all kinds of nonsense over the police scanner when I was working the police beat. The best one was the woman who called because her son wouldn't do his homework and she wanted an officer to gome to her house to make him do it.

I was once babysitting when for a joke one of my kids decided to dial 911-1111, thinking it wouldn't work.

It did.

Never have I had kids so well-behaved as they were for the rest of the night. I could have made that kid give up all desserts and toys for the rest of his life if I'd agreed not to tell his folks.

/other side of it is, they could have had me hauled off in the blink of an eye. I wasn't related to them, we didn't live in the same house. Thank goodness for the naivete of young children.

Needs help sewing, huh? Sew her cooch shut so she can't breed and pass on her DUH genes.