Ever call the emergency services? CONJOINED

whiskeyman

Just wondering about this the other day... did you ever find the need to call the emergency services (999 etc... or other when abroad) for any reason?

I've only ever rang them twice - both for road traffic accidents that occured outside my house.
That last time was over 5 years ago though. Hopefully won't have to ring for them any time soon!

So, have you needed to call, and for what reason?

Mint Sauce

only the once, have rang the local garda station as well a couple of times for really minor stuff

Quazzie

I used to ring them as a kid reporting false incidents. Was a hoot until the cops turned up at my door with an offical charge. I had a juvey record after that.

robinph

Had them called on my behalf a couple of times, cannot remember ever dialling them myself though.

dSTAR

Matter of fact I had to call the cops the other night. I had ordered a pizza at around 7.30ish. By 8.45pm it still hadn't arrived. I was getting worried and I just panicked I guess. What was I to do?

az2wp0sye65487

Only called them once myself, a colleague was having a suspected heart attack, had them called once for me by my GP who was convinced I was about to have a seizure! thankfully both of the above turned out to be minor things.

I do remember reading some ridiculous stories about people dialing 999 for silly things, can't find the exact story but came across these......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7801917.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7781379.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7803169.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3806299.stm

Neamhshuntasach

Never called 999 in Ireland. Called 911 twice in the US though. One for a robbery and the other for an OD. Mate had too much shrooms.

Danbo!

Kyra Repulsive Cocoon wrote: »

Only called them once myself, a colleague was having a suspected heart attack, had them called once for me by my GP who was convinced I was about to have a seizure! thankfully both of the above turned out to be minor things.

I do remember reading some ridiculous stories about people dialing 999 for silly things, can't find the exact story but came across these......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7801917.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7781379.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7803169.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3806299.stm

I was working in a petrol station when 2 lads in ballaclavas came in with knives and hammers and robbed the place. Strangely enough, it took a couple of seconds after they left to think, does this warrant 999 or the garda station down the road? Went with 999 in the end. But some of those people above are idiots.

LEIN

Called Garda few times over little fools smashing up cars out side a shopping center.

mikemac

noblestee wrote: »

I was working in a petrol station when 2 lads in ballaclavas came in with knives and hammers and robbed the place

Did you not have a panic button? You definitly should have had one

thelordofcheese

I did once, i asked them to send more paramedics.

Danbo!

mikemac wrote: »

Did you not have a panic button? You definitly should have had one

Dont even get me started on the 'silent' alarm. I had been there 5 years, and always knew about the alarm under the counter. Couldn't get to it when the lads were on their way in, but hit it as they were running out. Cue alarm bells and flashing lights. When I complained to management about it, saying I could have got a whack of a hammer had I hit it on their way in, they shrugged it off and said the 2 scumbags might have panicked and left. Didn't stay in the job much longer after that.

_blank_

Yep

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=191571

:mad:

n1ck

Was about to ring it yesterday but got beaten to it, friend of mine had an epileptic fit.

stovelid

noblestee wrote: »

Couldn't get to it when the lads were on their way in, but hit it as they were running out. Cue alarm bells and flashing lights..

:mad:

I also worked in one, and had to use ours (which was actually a foot one) when I got robbed. I'd have been furious if that had set off an actual alarm, as the guy had a handgun (which thankfully turned out to be a replica anyway).

Xiney

I rang 911 a few times in North America. One time it was for something non-emergency, but the emergency numbers were not picking up and there was some idiot outside our apartment window at 3am (since 2am) with his speakers blaring and I had a test the next day. As soon as an operator picked up I apologised for the fact that my call was not an emergency.

I've rung 999 in Ireland plenty of times. Minor assaults, and one time some teenagers riding a children's four wheeler down a busy road after dark. They weren't particularly visible or being very careful, it was an accident waiting to happen. When I called I was told they'd already had a few calls from motorists.

stovelid

Xiney wrote: »

and there was some idiot outside our apartment window at 3am (since 2am) with his speakers blaring and I had a test the next day. As soon as an operator picked up I apologised for the fact that my call was not an emergency.

What did the operator say?

Xiney

stovelid wrote: »

What did the operator say?

She said it was fine. Apparently you're supposed to call 911 if the non-emergency numbers are off duty for the night.

And 15 minutes later I heard sirens, and so did the jerk outside who sped off. My night's sleep was already ruined, though.
:mad:

Kiera

Have had to call an ambulance a few times. Once when my Dad had a massive heart attack and a few times for my Mam.

Oh and had to call the Guards when a joyrider crashed into our front wall. Silly fecker hit the wall so hard that he pinned himself into the car

SV

Yeah I have.

Once for my 87 year old granny who passed out and knocked her head whilst falling/ was completely unconscious. Took the Ambulance crew an amazing 1hour and 50minutes to get to us.
By which time a local doctor had come around and nursed her and gave her a check up.
So the ambulance crew then gave out to me as I "wasted their time". Fúcking díckheads.

Xiney

Oh yeah! Called 911 for my dad when he fell off a ladder. Onto his HEAD.


The man is a reactor physicist. I'm not joking. So how can he be so freakin' stupid?


Anyway, we sat him down in the computer chair and wheeled him into the house. He kept falling straight asleep and snoring - everything I'd ever heard about concussions was to not let the concussed sleep. I was terrified he'd given himself brain damage (who wants to hire a brain damaged physicist??) and I kept yelling at him and playing games with him to try and keep him awake while we waited for the ambulance. It was really scary.

I forgot about that.

Mr. Presentable

Once to report a stolen car
Once to report an assault I witnessed from a passing bus
Once to report a housefire
Once to report a break-in at a building site
Once when my business was robbed

Xiney

ClioV6 wrote: »

Yeah I have.

Once for my 87 year old granny who passed out and knocked her head whilst falling/ was completely unconscious. Took the Ambulance crew an amazing 1hour and 50minutes to get to us.
By which time a local doctor had come around and nursed her and gave her a check up.
So the ambulance crew then gave out to me as I "wasted their time". Fúcking díckheads.

unbelievable :eek:

AnonoBoy

Somewhere in my mind there's a vague memory of having called an Ambulance or the Guards once but I can't for the life of me remember why I did it or where I was or anything.

Weird.

I did once. At a bus stop these kids were walking towards me and they were sitting down around me. One girl walking kinda funny and they all thought this was a hoot. I heard somebody say, "oh she can't handle it". The girl then slowly sat on the ground and lay down. They thought this was hilarious, even on their backs with laughter.

One of the other girls bent down beside her. And started screaming. And screaming. There was blood coming out the girl's mouth/nose. She wasn't moving whatsoever or re-acting to anything they were doing. So I rang 999 and the ambulance got there in about 10 minutes.

The other kids were more worried about getting caught for whatever it was that they were doing, than for their friend. So by the time the ambulance got there, only 2 of them were left.

axel rose

A few years back I had an incident at work were a couple of female collegues were assaulted. As yer man was making his escape I dialled 999. THE STUPID BIACH TOLD ME THAT I CALLED A DUBLIN NUMBER AND SHOULD RING THE LOCAL STATION INSTEAD! :eek:.

It was about 10 minutes later I realised what she said.

afatbollix

twice for road accidents.. they were both down the country and i had no idea where i was... had to wait till a local arrived to get them where it was tho.... almost left my mobile with one because i forgot i gave it to him.. :o back before everyone had them...

the crashes werent too bad so it wasent life threathing...

edit...

forgot about this one.. the local drunk was out shooting a week before x-mas at about 9pm at night... was ****ting it he was just out side the house and would shoot at the house...

prick...

Mimikyu

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iPlop

when I was a kid the fire brigade were called to my house as I got my head stuck in the stairs.they had to break 1 of the steps to free me:eek:

Holsten

Yeah when my house got robbed.

truecrippler

Dialled 911's number... along the N11 going towards Shankill 2 weeks ago to see if they had any rashers, sausages and pudding left for a breakfast roll.

Parents weren't home to cook me dinner so kinda was an emergency.

SarcasticFairy

I rang the ambulance once for my Dad... I specifically asked that they didn't turn on the sirens in the housing estate as my Dad had asked this (didn't want everyone knowing he was hurt or something :rolleyes:). They sent a fire brigade first () and about 7 firemen stood around saying the ambulance should be here soon. Then an ambulance finally came about an hour later. Both came with full lights and sirens, despite the fact there was no one around....

Other than that, I've never had to ring for anything!

sdanseo

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

I rang the ambulance once for my Dad... They sent a fire brigade first ()

All firemen are paramedics too.


Have dialled 112 twice. First time from my mobile without realising it, heard a noise and picked it up to hear a voice going "Emergency, hello?...." I hung up :P

Second time was because some randomer was banging at our front door locked off his head cursing and blinding, shouting through the letterbox to let him in; and couldn't think of the number for the Garda Station off hand. Not even one ring getting throuhg, they're fantastically fast. Two Garda cars were here in about under 5 minutes as well, not bad for something relatively minor.

When I was working in the airport I called airport police for unattended bags and the like loads of times but also called the fire brigade there because of a fire in a bin (took them 45 minutes and when all that was needed was a bucket of water they brought a jeep, fire brigade, about 6 DAP officers and 6/7 firemen with them). Would have gone for a fire extinuguisher myself but apparently that's against the rules without training.

I've called the guards a pile of times for minor stuff too, like when driving back from a night out (stone-cold sober don't worry) at about 4.30am and almost died because someone had left a pile of roadcones completely blocking a lane. Wasn't getting out and moving them myself cos' I was sure there'd be a gang of scumbags watching and the only person with me was drunk enough to be useless

cuckoo

Once dialled 999 to report a row of wheelie bins that was on fire, the fire brigade arrived v quickly and had them put out in about 3 minutes. Impressive.

Ring the local garda station frequently - there was a lot of building work around where i live and local idiots liked to break into the site at night. I was studying/cramming for exams with my desk by the window so could see them clearly. The first time the phone call went along the lines of:

me: "hi, just wanted to let you know there's some kids climbing on the crane on the building site at xxx"
guard (bored voice) : "uh huh, and what are they doing?"
me: "well, one of them is standing on top of the operator's cab, and another is walking along the top of the arm of the crane....oh, and they're both swinging their jackets over their heads and shouting 'i'm the king of the world'"
guard (no more bored voice): "what the?!?"

Two squadcars and a motor bike arrived in 2 minutes.

For the following few months it was a regular routine, me ringing up "hey, those kids are at the site again" and the guards "right so *my name*, how's the study going? good luck with those exams..."

Nightwish

I rang 999 when I came across an RTA in Wicklow. I had never been along the road before, and it was a dark November night and I didnt know my exact location. The 999 operator started shouting "Where are you" and all I could say was I was about 5 mile from Hollywood on the road to Blessington. Of course that wasnt good enough for him and he said "peoples lives may depend on this". Thankfully a local arrived and spoke to the pr!ck.

Yep, just the once.

This past summer.. a friend tried to commit suicide by throwing herself down the stairs and knocked herself unconscious.

Fun fun.

Biggins

Rang them over the years over rioting, gunfire, bombs, fire, fighting, break-ins, suspected break-ins, car crashes, witnessed suicide attemps, etc.

tommmy1979

rang ambulance twice and the cops once, one of the ambulance ones was kinda funny.. twas when me and my mates came across an articulated lorry full of pint bottles of bulmers which had gone off the road near abbeyleix, we were the first on the scene, it made "The Panel" the following week and Darragh O'Briain was cracking jokes about kids around laois having bulmers on their cornflakes..

boomer_ie

sdonn_1 wrote: »

All firemen are paramedics too.

Just to clarify thats all Dublin Fire Brigade firemen are paramedics, down the country they are either First Aid or First Responder trained.

Shane

sdanseo

boomer_ie wrote: »

Just to clarify thats all Dublin Fire Brigade firemen are paramedics, down the country they are either First Aid or First Responder trained.

Shane

Sorry yes, meant in Dublin. Although if I'm honest I had thought it was a nationwide thing...but didn't mean to claim that without knowing.

Burning Eclipse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjtiTk1KiTA

Oh yes!!

And once, because of a fire.

Run_to_da_hills

Reported horses on the main Limerick to Shannon dual carriageway.

January

Couple of times..

Had to ring an ambulance for my aunt (she was in labour), they sent the fire brigade first, then the ambulance arrived, my cousin was shouting "but we don't need ye fireman, she's only having a baby!!" (he was 7).

Had to ring the fire brigade numerous times for cars set on fire outside my apartment block.

Had to ring the garda a couple of times for cars joyriding outside my apartment block and once when a bunch of kids were abseiling down the side of the apartment block...

Zangetsu

Once, was lost at 6am in Derry on the morning of the marches after my mate went nuts and threw me out of his cousins house. Was wondering the streets for hours and eventually had to flag down a cop car to get to a train station.

Turns out I was picked up on one of the most Protestant streets in the north, could have been killed being from the republic on the day that it was...

AlmightyCushion

Yeah, only the once though, when I lost the remote and there was a fine gael political broadcast on the tv.

N1njapirate

last week actually..
Called ambulance..
bad car crash near my house in middle of night.. I was up late talking to someone out side when it happened. Drunk driver..

banshee_bones

fire brigade twice

-my own house was on fire
-someone had either jumped or fallen into the river in cork city

guards about twice

-i was almost robbed at an atm machine by two romanian b***hes

-witnessed a full blown domestic in eyre sq waiting for a taxi, my taxi driver tried to do the chivalrous thing by trying to intervene, this guy was thrown slaps at this hysterical girl...

Senna

Loads of times in work, normal for the job.

I've phoned the local station a few times when i driving at night and come across a drunk driver. Once i stayed on the phone and followed the guy till the squad car arrived, we were heading away from town so i followed him for about 15 miles before they arrived. Although it was 4/5am and very little traffic, i cant believe he made it as far in the shape he was in. He was using the lines in the middle of the road as a guide so drove most of the way with the car straddling the lines.

If you drive alot at night in Donegal, you will see drunk drivers (not as bad now as a few years ago).

The_B_Man

Had to ring the fire brigade when The Village nightclub went on fire in Dublin City. Some foreign bloke asking "What village?".

dSTAR

The_B_Man wrote: »

Had to ring the fire brigade when The Village nightclub went on fire in Dublin City. Some foreign bloke asking "What village?".

:eek:

How many people died?

The_B_Man

none. it was raining and the neon sign on the front went up. The inside was grand. open the next night n all, just with a bit of a smell of smoke. lol sure me mates went in and i stayed outside stating the fact that "eh, the place is on fire!" as the reason for not going in. I'm obviously not as brave as them!