Die Londoner wählten die 999 wegen Spinnen in ihrem Zimmer und fehlendem KFC, da nach Angaben der Behörden nur 15 % der Anrufe echt waren
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-nuisance-999-calls-london-spiders-kfc-b1256358.html
Von StGuthlac2025
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Imagine phoning the police because you’re afraid of a tiny harmless insect. If people are going to waste time and resources so inappropriately, they should be charged the cost of those resources. Same for people who rock up to A&E for a sore finger etc.
Edit: grammar
Don’t we have the technology to trace and then fine these time wasters?
So 85% of missing KFC calls were fake? I would like to see the data behind this claim.
I also take umbrage to the wording of the headline which seems to imply that spiders are responsible for the missing KFC.
Should be a lesser call line where social services worker come out to support
Ah, the ole Mix in a couple of bangers and then make it seem like 85% of people are time wasters trick, a public service classic.
I called the non emergency line recently because of a concern about someone on a bridge. After waiting an hour and never talking to a human, I gave up, as if they were going to jump they would have some time ago.
>A second man claimed he’d paid £13 for chicken at [KFC](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/kfc) in [Harlesden](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/harlesden) and despite the money leaving his bank account staff are “not giving me my food for no reason at all”.
How is this any worse than phoning police over a tweet? If the police can respond to tweets or reports of a Golliwog doll in a window, a spider or missing KFC doesn’t seem especially ridiculous. They also turn up to auditors filming in public constantly which is a massive waste of time. There does need to be more priority on actual crimes but it’s currently inconsistent.
Add the cost of having a wasted call (include the cost of the negative externalities) and charge it to the phone bill of whoever’s made the call. Morons.
Should be a fixed penalty notice for misusing 999. Obviously anything done in good faith shouldn’t get it, but things like the headline should be an £80 fine, that would stop 90% of it.
I always thought as a kid if you made calls like that you got fined. I think they should introduce fines for miss use.
> The disgruntled customer replies: “Because I’m trying to call Uber Eats, it’s not allowing me. I have nobody else to call.”
Obviously it’s not the solution but it does feel like a lot of these calls reflect the fact that people have so little redress when dealing with large faceless organisations. A lot of them also seem to reflect people not really understanding their rights or how anything works.
Who the hell are we sposed to call about missing KFC then?
False 999 callers should be charged a fee for wasting the services time
This is something I’d expect out of America, not here… jfc
My neighbour has mental health issues and calls 999 around 60-80 times a week.
The latest was reporting me for attacking her apparently on a weekend I was away.
Then there was the illegal plumbing that was apparently used so neighbours could send drugs through the pipes.
They refuse to charge her for wasting police time because „we can’t prove that she doesn’t actually believe these things“.
And also because my boyfriend niece’s ex called my sister in law brother a slag
Fine them
Double fine them if they say ‚I know this is not an emergency but‘