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Have you ever had to call 999?

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I did today.Young fellah overtook my car on a slight bend,wasn't going fast,road was clear,did nothing illegal.100 yards on lost control of the car and flipped up in the air,turned over four times and came to rest in a field.Promptly burst in to flames.He was out of that car like a rocket thankfully!I had to call an ambulance and the fire brigade.Cut his hand badly and banged his head but apart from that and shock he was fine.Third accident at much the same spot in three weeks.Fatalities in the other two so he got off lightly.He was wearing his seat belt.

It's weird trying to make that important call calmly while all this drama is unfolding in front of you.

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  1. Yes,  Unfortunately.

    On several occasions, for the police, to sort out "the little s***s from up the road".

    Ambulance to get my Dad to hospital.

    Fire brigade when a neighbour's farm was hit by an arsonist.

    Those and several other times as well.

    Of course,.. the older you get, the more likely it is you will have occasion to make a 999 call.


  2. No haven't Misty and I hope I never will!

  3. Unfortunately yes, twice under protest. Thankfully my quack wouldn't come out to our place at 2am one morning when I phoned her about some chest pains. Best advice she's given me so far.

    Edit 999 translates to 911 for the nice Americans who are perplexed by our number code.

  4. OMG well done you!

    I have had to call 999 more times than I care to remember

  5. no, but my sister prank called it, she asked my brother for a freinds phone number, and she was little, so he said "9", waited for her to dial it, "1" waited for her to dial it, "1" waited for her to dial it, and then she said"thats not her number!!!"

    so my brother had tricked her into dialing 911, it was hilarious!

  6. Only the once that I can remember, a car turned into the path of a motorcyclist and he hit the side of the car, flew over it and tumbled about 30 feet down the road.

    He was unconscious but came around just as the ambulance appeared, he was a bit groggy but otherwise ok, also he was wearing `Leathers` and a crash helmet,so not too much abrasions.

    Lucky it wasn`t a high sided lorry or bus, he would have smacked into it.

    This was before mobile phones and (again luckily) there was a call box not too far away.

  7. Twice. Once when the house next door was on fire and once when someone was throwing objects off a fly over onto the motorway below.

  8. Yes, Dock Spur Roundabout A14 Felixstowe, lorry tipped over on top of a car..me and 3 or 4 other cars pulled over, thank goodness for mobiles.

  9. Yes to report my dad.

  10. I had to once for a doctor when I didn't have the no. of a local one. I'd been boozing the night before when I was watching tv i got a pain which made my heart skip a few beats. It wasn't pleasant but it just turned out to be a gastic problem and nothing to do with me heart thank f*ck!!

    I think your story beats mine, lol.

  11. Yes I had to call the fire brigade when some little brats filled a trolley with rubbish and set it alight behind my garden fence. It burnt down the fence, my big shed, and all it's contents, and half my garden.

  12. No, Never, Thank God!

    = )

  13. nope.. but i did call 666... guess what.. i reached my mother-in-law

  14. Many times, I'm a school caretaker so we have out problems. The strangest call I made was early evening in a village called the Mumbles (home of Catherine Zeta Jones!)

    Theres a pub called the White Rose and as I rounded this building a boy on a bike was leaning over a woman on the ground.

    He asked me to call the ambulance cos she fell over in front of him. Ok I said then I phoned them. The operator asks you all sorts of questions, including the road number...well I don't know that. As we are talking the woman gets up screaming murder murder!

    The boy is shocked, he falls off his bike and this woman runs away! I'm still talking and explaining. Anyhow the operator is really interested now "whos trying to murder whom etc"

    The boy decides to give chase and I'm telling him you cant force help on anyone and to leave her alone. The woman quickly out distances the boy whos on his bike.

    I explain all this to the operator who wants my name, address and all sorts. Anyhow as I cross by the White Rose. A Police car draws. So I do my best intention bit...too an unamused Police officer!

    Sometimes its best to wait and see before dialling 999! or get someone else to it.

  15. yes i had to call it for myself when i had a fall and broke my back. Of course i didnt know i had broken my back, but i knew something was seriously wrong as i could hardly breathe and was in a lot of pain. I was terrified as i thought id done something high up to my spine and it was effecting my ability to breathe and i was going to die...i was also alone with my two young children who were upset and scared.

    the woman on the phone was fantastic, she stayed on the phone talking to me until the ambulance arrived.... i dont know what i would have done without her. I later wrote a letter thanking her for being so supportive and kind,and letting her know i was now ok, i just hope she got the letter passed to her, as it must be hard for them to get no feed back and i think it is important to show appreciation when somebody has had such a good effect on you.

  16. a car crash happened as i was walking home from college last year.  Its kind of weird since i really didn't know what to do, fortunately i have not called for criminal reasons

  17. Yes.  

    I was with my husband and  children in Whitby several years ago, when a boy aged about 8 or 9 ran up to me and said 'please help me, I need 10p to call the police'.  I told him 999 calls are free, and asked him why he needed to ring them.  He said a man was in his house attacking his mum!   Then he ran and hid in a shop doorway.  I went to him and he said 'Oh please, if he comes looking for me he'll hit me as well'.  My husband stayed with the boy and our children while I went to the phone box and rang 999 ( this was before everyone had mobile phones).  The police arrived within about 5 minutes, spoke to us, then took the boy into their patrol car and drove off.

    We never had any follow-up to this incident so we hope the boy and his mother were both ok. The thing that struck me as much as anything was that the boy came to us, specifically me.  He ran past other people and came to us.  I was holding my daughter's hand at the time, and he must have seen and realised here was someone he could turn to, and trust.  Children are generally told to go to a woman with children if they need help, and this boy did.   I work with children of his age in a school, and have to cope with all kinds of incidents.  I believe this boy instinctively knew he would be safe, not ignored, and be helped.

    My children are nearly grown up now, but I would like to think that if they needed help, like the boy we helped, then they would get it. It's a different world now from around 10 years ago when this happened, people are more cynical and don't want to get involved, and are less caring, but sometimes we have to do what has to be done.

  18. No, have you.

  19. No, thankfully.

  20. Yes although in Australia we call it 000. I was in a car when I saw a semi-trailer drive through traffic in front of me and plough into the front yard of a house. It was very fortunate though because there weren't any cars in the way and the house was at an angle so it didn't hit that either. I think the driver of the truck had a heart attack.

    FYI 'Music Is My Hot HOT Sex™' - 999 is the UK Emergency number. USA call it 911.

  21. nope, iv had close moments tho!

    u?

    jack

  22. No, but my 3 year old seems to think he does!

  23. Yeah.  A robbery in progress.

  24. I had threatened to and attempted to before but the phone was snapped off me..

  25. wait...what's 999?!?

  26. 911 in Los Angeles...once when i witness a jewelry robbery gave them the license plate number...

  27. Lots of times. Its common in the downtown Toronto area.

  28. yeah, had to get the coast guard and an ambulance out after my friend decided to go all para-suicidal yet again. she's alive of course...she would never actually do it.

    and then again when two boys were throwing stones at a house and then smashed a window! it was actually pretty dangerous. the eedjits even gave me their names (real names btw, confirmed by the police)

    glad the guy was ok misty, I'd say you were in shock too after seeing that.

    and volleyball, I hope your brother has grown up and is aware that people with real emergencies ring the emergency services, it's not there for prank calls as far as I know.

  29. ye a couple of times, i hit a wee kid

    wasn't going fast but it was a shock,she just ran out in font of me,thankfuly she was ok,

    the second time an old guy had a heart attack he was lying on the pavement i thought he was drunk,he never made it.

  30. No, I have never heard of 999. I would have used 911 so if it is something different I was not aware of it until now. Glad everyone is OK.
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