Heard tonight on CBC’s As It Happens: The Avon and Somerset Constabulary in the UK has posted actual calls to 999 (the British equivalent to 991) as a primer on when not to call the emergency number. Among the calls: a woman who has lost her glasses and can’t see to make potatoes and a man whose wife left the house without leaving him anything to eat.
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