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Most ridiculous 999 call ever? Time-waster calls police wanting cat arrested for eating his bacon

BY KELLY-ANN MILLS

The bewildered call operator asks him to repeat his claims before asking what he would like the police to do

'It's not a criminal offence to let your cat eat your bacon': West Yorkshire Police reveal their most ridiculous 999 calls
This is the ridiculous moment a man dials 999 and asks police to arrest his cat for eating his bacon.

The call starts with the man being asked: "What's your emergency?"

"Er..me girlfriend has let the cat eat my bacon," the man states matter-of-factly.

The bewildered call operator asks him to repeat his claims before asking what he would like the police to do.


He simply replies: "I want to press charges."

West Yorkshire police received a phone call from a man because the cat had eaten his bacon Getty
Naughty Moggy: West Yorkshire police received a phone call from a man because the cat had eaten his bacon
Unbelievable the call handler keeps her cool and professionally asks whether he wants them to arrest his girlfriend or the cat.

And when the man replies both, she firmly tells him: "Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. And we don't arrest cats."

He starts to protest and insists it's the girlfriend's fault for allowing the cat to do it.

But when he is finally told it's not a 999 emergency, he finally concedes and ends the call.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Evening Post Tom Donahoe, who heads a team of 200 staff at the customer contact centre based in Wakefield, said: "Someone rang us at two in the morning to ask us who the actor was that played Magnum P.I.

"It was driving him mad, he was with his friends and couldn’t think of the answer, so he rang the police."

He added: "The serious point is that, a lot of the time we’re talking about a matter of seconds between us being able to get to a genuine emergency effectively and not being able to and therefore having people’s lives put at risk."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/most-ridiculous-999-call-ever-6164550/

lol
should be in the joke area lmao
too funny

West Yorkshire police don't arrest cats? Well, they should.

I don't know how the call handler maintained composeure?
I couldn't