News story of the day!

Help! Police! This is not an emergency!



The lady was clearly hysterical. What to do? She felt she needed some serious assistance. So she dialled 999. After all, it was an emergency.

Her call was answered. The operator asked what the trouble was.

"It was basically a lady who had called up and requested police attendance because there was a spider in her bath," recalls the operator, a former civilian employee with the Metropolitan Police.

I also found this funny (written in the readers comments):
Thames Valley Police have on the side of all of their vehicles "fighting crime, disorder and fear" surely this makes calling them for a spider in the bath perfectly legitimate. Utilising the disorder part one could also presumably put in a call for them to come and tidy the house. They are victims of their own buzzwords.