What other Crazy calls / requests member of AGS have been asked to do?

Com1186

Just for a bit of a laugh what other strange jobs / services have been requested from day to day by members of the public...

i know that whether it's a medical emergency or a house on fire we seem to be the first called and on arrival expected to deal with but :

I attended a domestic in which the "Domestic" was a child would not put on his/her school uniform and go to school. said parent rang in the "domestic" to scare the child to put on their uniform. the said child was 16!

I also attended what was supposed to be a childs hand stuck in the kitchen sink and on arrival the child (4 years old) decided that mammy wedding and engagement ring would be safer flushed down the toliet. i informed "mammy" that the ring were most likely in her septic tank, where she said "i know that gaurd but can you check it for me please".... i dont think anyone need to know the answer to that question was.

finally a man rang in that his car would nt start outside his house and requested gardai....the person taking the call informed said member of the public that it wasnt a garda matter. an hour later he rang in a traffic accident outside the house. on arrival there was no accident and Mr. Joe Bloggs said we had to help get his car started because he was convicted in court for public order and fined €500, and as a result cancelled his AA membership for the year and felt we were the reason the AA couldnt come out and thus rang us!

i could go on, but would like to hear other members or am i the only one who gets these type of calls....

goldie fish

A frequent call we got in limerick city was from people locked out of their cars(with heys in the ignition usually). We had the tools and skills for the job, but you'd always get some arsehole who decided it was funny to say "The lads from southill would have this open in no time".
Eventually we'd get back into our patrol car and say "call them instead so. Goodbye."

msg11

Com1186 wrote: »

finally a man rang in that his car would nt start outside his house and requested gardai....the person taking the call informed said member of the public that it wasnt a garda matter. an hour later he rang in a traffic accident outside the house. on arrival there was no accident and Mr. Joe Bloggs said we had to help get his car started because he was convicted in court for public order and fined €500, and as a result cancelled his AA membership for the year and felt we were the reason the AA couldnt come out and thus rang us!

LOL

Delancey

goldie fish wrote: »

A frequent call we got in limerick city was from people locked out of their cars(with heys in the ignition usually). We had the tools and skills for the job, but you'd always get some arsehole who decided it was funny to say "The lads from southill would have this open in no time".
Eventually we'd get back into our patrol car and say "call them instead so. Goodbye."

I thought that Gardai had ended the practice of helping folks break into their cars over fears of people later alleging their car was damaged ?

d3exile

not a call i've been dispatched to but a regular call we get

-999 call-

it's ******, will ya ring caredoc for me?

have you a medical emergency? ring for an ambulance

no i need medication i need me doctor

ok well ring them yourself there, 999 is for emergencies only

i have no credit

sorry 999 is an emergency line please ask for an ambulance, goodbye


-5mins later-


it's ******, will ya ring caredoc for me?......


repeat about 8 hundred times of a night shift and you have what our comms room gets


some lads give in and ring caredoc for her but guarantee she'll ring every night then knowing she'll eventually get a response...

goldie fish

Delancey wrote: »

I thought that Gardai had ended the practice of helping folks break into their cars over fears of people later alleging their car was damaged ?

Probably, this would have happened in 1996.

Delancey

d3exile wrote: »

not a call i've been dispatched to but a regular call we get

-999 call-

it's ******, will ya ring caredoc for me?

have you a medical emergency? ring for an ambulance

no i need medication i need me doctor

ok well ring them yourself there, 999 is for emergencies only

i have no credit

sorry 999 is an emergency line please ask for an ambulance, goodbye


-5mins later-


it's ******, will ya ring caredoc for me?......


repeat about 8 hundred times of a night shift and you have what our comms room gets


some lads give in and ring caredoc for her but guarantee she'll ring every night then knowing she'll eventually get a response...

I'm fairly sure I know who that caller is and the problem there is that there is no consistency in how she is handled - if after a few nights of nobody helping her she would get the message.

parsi

As a customer I've made a number of calls asking for the rules of the road to be enforced. Things like parking on double-yellows, parking on footpaths, parking (and damaging) on green areas, parking on corners.

Only now that I realise they're crazy things seeing as the guards totally ignore these offences despite them being part of the rules of the road.

More fool me - a law abiding customer expecting that the law be upheld.

Don't bother with the usual excuses of being busy with a murderer or restraining a junkie. These don't wash when you see the Traffic Corpse drive up and down the road ignoring the illegally parked cars.

Leo Demidov

Ah yes, the Traffic Corpse, the mythical being that supposedly enforces Traffic Law!:P

Zambia

A member of the new south Wales traffic corp was shot and killed today. There but for the grace. . .

MagicSean

1

"I have diarrhea and my washing machine is broke. The plumber can't come til Monday"

"I'm not really sure how I can help you."

"Can you not get him to come over today? We have a baby in the house too and everything has sh1t on it."

"Have you tried an emergency plumber?"

"Can't you do that?"

2

"My cat won't talk to me and now he's gone off."

"When did you last see him?"

"(aggressively) Listen, I love my cat and you can't take him. I know what your kind are like" hangs up phone

3

"Can i report something anonymously?"

"Of course"

"Someone is threatening me. If i give you their number can you tell me who it is?"

"I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. You would have to make a statement of complaint and it would be investigated."

"I just want to know who it is so i can avoid them. I already know who it is but I want to know for certain so i can avoid them."

"We can't give out that kind of information but if you think one of your friends would do this then you should probably avoid them anyway."

"I don't hang out with him anymore."

"So what exactly do you hope to achieve by learning if it's his number if you don't want him prosecuted?"

"Ah you're useless" hangs up phone

4

"Suck my cock"

"You seem to have rung the wrong number"

"Suck my cock Garda"

"You do know that private numbers don't stay private on the emergency line? And you've actually rung from you house phone so I can tell you your name and address too"

hangs up phone


Those are the ones that spring to mind.

RangeR

parsi wrote: »

As a customer I've made a number of calls
...
More fool me - a law abiding customer ...

Customer?

Delancey

I believe BTP ( British Transport Police ) had to take emergency phones out of rail stations as people were using them to ring up and enquire about train times !

Bosh

RangeR wrote: »

Customer?

Ignore him.. :rolleyes:

goldie fish

RangeR wrote: »

Customer?

All patrol car's accept Laser and visa now for accepting payment for services.

Eru

parsi wrote: »

These don't wash when you see the Traffic Corpse drive up and down the road ignoring the illegally parked cars.

Well in fairness I would imagine it takes all of your concentration just to drive a car when your dead

parsi

RangeR wrote: »

parsi wrote: »

As a customer I've made a number of calls
...
More fool me - a law abiding customer ...

Customer?

Yep. For a few years now we've all been customers of state agencies. Empowerment of the citizen and all that lark.

parsi

Eru wrote: »

parsi wrote: »

These don't wash when you see the Traffic Corpse drive up and down the road ignoring the illegally parked cars.

Well in fairness I would imagine it takes all of your concentration just to drive a car when your dead

Yet another victim of autocorrect. I blame Steve Jobs.

pah

parsi wrote: »

As a customer I've made a number of calls asking for the rules of the road to be enforced. Things like parking on double-yellows, parking on footpaths, parking (and damaging) on green areas, parking on corners.

Only now that I realise they're crazy things seeing as the guards totally ignore these offences despite them being part of the rules of the road.

More fool me - a law abiding customer expecting that the law be upheld.

Don't bother with the usual excuses of being busy with a murderer or restraining a junkie. These don't wash when you see the Traffic Corpse drive up and down the road ignoring the illegally parked cars.

I often respond to these types of calls and act appropriately for the situation. I also take these calls and dispatch units. No problem.

I have however received these calls from "customers" on the 999 and that's something. I don't deal with. :rolleyes:

Our man in Havana

4

"Suck my cock"

"You seem to have rung the wrong number"

"Suck my cock Garda"

"You do know that private numbers don't stay private on the emergency line? And you've actually rung from you house phone so I can tell you your name and address too"

hangs up phone

Pwnd! Well done.

rainbowtrout

d3exile wrote: »

not a call i've been dispatched to but a regular call we get

-999 call-

it's ******, will ya ring caredoc for me?

have you a medical emergency? ring for an ambulance

no i need medication i need me doctor

ok well ring them yourself there, 999 is for emergencies only

i have no credit

sorry 999 is an emergency line please ask for an ambulance, goodbye


-5mins later-


it's ******, will ya ring caredoc for me?......


repeat about 8 hundred times of a night shift and you have what our comms room gets


some lads give in and ring caredoc for her but guarantee she'll ring every night then knowing she'll eventually get a response...

There should be a button on whatever system you use that you can press that charges them premium rate for the call when you've figured out that it's not an emergency. That would soon stop them calling.

Shield

This type of time-wasting nonsense which is just absolutely hilarious of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tw6TY2nDHU

CaseyRyback

Com1186 wrote: »

what other strange jobs / services have been requested from day to day by members of the public....

I went to this one job where the complainant kept insisting he was my customer. Damnedest thing I ever heard.

POGAN

goldie fish wrote: »

RangeR wrote: »

Customer?

All patrol car's accept Laser and visa now for accepting payment for services.

MasterCard is sponsor the new fleet of Garda cars

pah

Not 10 minutes ago...

Garda... I put €20 credit in my phone last Thursday and I tried to make a call now. Some aul bitch came on the phone and told me I had no credit left over the liar!! Can you call me a cab?

Our man in Havana

pah wrote: »

Not 10 minutes ago...

Garda... I put €20 credit in my phone last Thursday and I tried to make a call now. Some aul bitch came on the phone and told me I had no credit left over the liar!! Can you call me a cab?

I hope you told him to foxtrot oscar.

pah

Thankfully my inate professionalism prevents me from speaking my mind to keep me in a job, for another while at least

Delancey

I used to work in the 999/112 section of Eircom . Incredible just how many calls to AGS were total bollox.
Most common one would go something like this :

Caller : Hello Guard ?
Garda : Go ahead caller , what's your emergency ?
Caller : Them f**king bolloxes on the door of Gougers nightclub won't let me in , I need the Guards.
Garda : What for ?
Caller : To make them c**ts let me in

What followed was the inevitable explanation that management actually do have the right to refuse admission and that really AGS cannot get involved , caller then hangs up with the usual comment '' all Guards and bouncers are bolloxes '' :rolleyes:

My favourite was the taxi driver who called over a disputed fare with his passenger , the amount in dispute was 10 cent ! Garda told the taxi man that there was no way he was getting a patrol car over 10 cent.

A huge number of calls from people without phone credit and wanting AGS to make '' urgent '' calls on their behalf .

For every 1 bullsh1t call that the Fire or Ambulance service got AGS got 100.

pah

^^

at least eircom used to vet the calls to a certain extent - EsatBT don't. Painful at times

Delancey

pah wrote: »

^^

at least eircom used to vet the calls to a certain extent - EsatBT don't. Painful at times

Yeah , we did operate an ' unofficial ' type of screening - rationale was that the bullsh1t calls were tying up Garda lines and delaying our connecting real emergency calls.
I'm not the least surprised that EsatBT are not doing screening but given they only pay around 10 quid an hour perhaps that's inevitable ?

cocoshovel

I would also be interested to hear from what stupid/crazy calls other ES members get.
one I have heard is an ambulance responding to someone complaining of a tooth ache. Probably said something different over the phone to 999. Imagine how annoying something like that must be to arrive to.

Delancey

cocoshovel wrote: »

I would also be interested to hear from what stupid/crazy calls other ES members get.
one I have heard is an ambulance responding to someone complaining of a tooth ache. Probably said something different over the phone to 999. Imagine how annoying something like that must be to arrive to.

Nope , on more that 1 occasion I had callers complaining of toothache and sorry to say they got an ambulance response !
Lends weight to the ' conspiracy theory ' that the Ambulance service ( both HSE and DFB ) respond to these calls in order to ' puff ' up their statistics.

Foreign nationals were ( in my experience ) over represented in the numbers of bull calls they made to the Ambulance line , many seemed unable and/or unwilling to access the most basic medical service without dialing 999.

mikemac1

I'm talking to Esat BT?

I've called the emergency line once and that was for the fire brigade as the local scum were doing their usual weekend joyriding and abandoned and burned out a car in the estate.

The first person I talked to just asked my location and what service I required and confirmed my phone number and then passed me on.

The second person was very confident and asked me questions about the scence, about bystanders, could I confirm no life was in danger and were there other cars beside the burning one so it might spread. A few other questions. All very in control and confident

I thought I was talking to an ES member, not Esat BT call centre staff

Edit, reading this again, I hadn't realized the calls were screened. I just assumed all calls go straight to ES members

pah

The second person you spoke to was ES. The first was EsatBT. Like you say they simply confirm your number and location and forward you to the relevant ES. Garda, Fire or Ambo for whatever area that covers your location.

If no service is requested, ie child on the line, nothing said, rambling etc it goes to Garda :rolleyes:

Off Topic, this is the kind of thing that can be done by well trained civilian staff IMO.

Delancey

pah wrote: »

Off Topic, this is the kind of thing that can be done by well trained civilian staff IMO.

Absolutely , but AGS has , in my opinion , a pretty poor record when it comes to civilianisation so I wouldn't hold my breath.

stop

How many BT call centres are there? I've been put through to Ballyshannon, Navan, and another one - East Point? Have to call quite a bit as part of work so I tend to mash my answer to their first question (which service) with the answer to their second question (location)which they have not yet asked me. This confuses some, but others understand.

Delancey

To the best of my knowledge the main centres are Ballyshannon and Navan ( chosen for no other reason than they were the constituencies of that imbecile Mary Coughlan and her equally stupid colleague Noel Dempsey ). East Point I would guess is used as an ' overflow ' centre at peak periods.

AlekSmart

I'm unsure if this meets the criteria of "Crazy" but the sequence of photos is worth some comment,if only to tease out whether a wild eyed gal with a Mercedes-Benz can actually outmanouvere a leather-clad Member of the Traffic-Corps....?


http://photos.independent.ie/gallery/Fuel_Frenzy_in_City/slideshow/Fuel_Frenzy_in_Dublin_city/08Th0hXeMVfis

Delancey

The irony is that petrol station was recently prosecuted for deliberate overcharging of customers - petrol pumps were pumping less than than actually indicated - now its a champion of the consumer :rolleyes:

cyrusdvirus

runs to management to complain after being stopped by a garda in the course of his duties.... If i was allowed write the words dumb bitch to describe her, i would.

Thepredator

I've never understood people like that! We all love a bargain but ffs if it's gonna get you into an arguement with a guard, why bother? She's probably one of those that sleeps overnight outside next for their sale to start!

are you serious

just last night..

Garda can i use your mobile phone to call my girlfriend.
NO...
But why not?
It is my phone and not a garda issue phone I am not paying my bill for you to call your girlfriend.
Yes ok but can I still use it...
No....
So your telling me your not giving me your mobile phone, Ok I want your name I am complaining to the ombudsman for this....

Good man you enjoy that. Have a nice night!!! :rolleyes:

Paulzx

Delancey wrote: »

Lends weight to the ' conspiracy theory ' that the Ambulance service ( both HSE and DFB ) respond to these calls in order to ' puff ' up their statistics.

.

And what conspiricy theory is that?

I can only speak with reference to DFB and i can tell you categorically there is absolutely no need to bloody well "puff up" ambulance call numbers.

There are 12 ambos answering close to 100,000 calls and we need to be offloading calls not feckin puffing up numbers.

Ambulance crews are spending their days and nights chasing their tails trying to get rid of queued calls and you have the cheek to say that the numbers are puffed up.

I must remember that the next night i'm on and have done 20 bloody calls.

mr.dunkey

Paulzx wrote: »

And what conspiricy theory is that?

I can only speak with reference to DFB and i can tell you categorically there is absolutely no need to bloody well "puff up" ambulance call numbers.

There are 12 ambos answering close to 100,000 calls and we need to be offloading calls not feckin puffing up numbers.

Ambulance crews are spending their days and nights chasing their tails trying to get rid of queued calls and you have the cheek to say that the numbers are puffed up.

I must remember that the next night i'm on and have done 20 bloody calls.

Agree with paulz here,
From the HSe end of it theres nothing worse than having a timewaster non urgent complaint in the back of the ambo, and the radio is hoping with genuine emergencies, sick kids, chest pains,I cant wait until treat and refer comes in. All the sore toes, 3 week old abdo pains can wait.

Delancey

Paulzx wrote: »

And what conspiricy theory is that?

I can only speak with reference to DFB and i can tell you categorically there is absolutely no need to bloody well "puff up" ambulance call numbers.

There are 12 ambos answering close to 100,000 calls and we need to be offloading calls not feckin puffing up numbers.

Ambulance crews are spending their days and nights chasing their tails trying to get rid of queued calls and you have the cheek to say that the numbers are puffed up.

I must remember that the next night i'm on and have done 20 bloody calls.

I was not suggesting for one minute that crews be they HSE or DFB are not angered or disgusted by the waster calls - you refer to doing 20 calls , just how many are real emergencies ?

100,000 AS1 calls sounds impressive until you realise this number includes the invariable ' frequent flyers ' not to mention the '' my baby is crying '' calls, etc.
Why has management failed to tackle these rubbish calls ? How can someone phone 999 with a toothache and still get an ambulance response ? Why has the 'Omega ' or non-dispatch code not been implemented ?

I believe these calls are allowed because the 100,000 ' emergency ' calls would look a lot less and thus impact on the level of funding.

Some years ago I was injured in an accident , DFB ambulance came and I always remember the crew telling me I was the 6th call that day for them but the first call that actually warranted an ambulance.

I stress this is not a criticism of any Paramedics out there but rather a serious question of HSE / DFB management.

FGR

Statistics are what have ruined this job.

When numbers of calls are up a cash strapped government will cut numbers.

When numbers of calls are down (on the extremely short term) a cash strapped government will cut numbers -even more-.

It's ridiculous.

parsi

AlekSmart wrote: »

I'm unsure if this meets the criteria of "Crazy" but the sequence of photos is worth some comment,if only to tease out whether a wild eyed gal with a Mercedes-Benz can actually outmanouvere a leather-clad Member of the Traffic-Corps....?


http://photos.independent.ie/gallery/Fuel_Frenzy_in_City/slideshow/Fuel_Frenzy_in_Dublin_city/08Th0hXeMVfis

I love the "remonstrating using your glasses look". Usually from a particular type of person who isn't used to being told "NO". Cue the "My husband the barrister/consultant/city manager/junior minister will hear about this" statements.

Zambia

Mad as a box of frogs that chick.

I hope she got some sort of infringement.

The Black Oil

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/07/150148340/small-towns-police-blotter-is-a-riot

Animal (15:29 hrs, 11/25/11) — Caller reported a middle-aged Beagle had walked into her home and stayed there for the last hour. Officers tried unsuccessfully to capture the errant canine, which was retrieved by his owner about three hours later.

Missing Person (10:22 hrs, 12/24/11) — Captain reported a crewman had not returned to the vessel. The missing crewman, who had been enjoying the company of a lady friend, returned about an hour later.

Animal (17:22 hrs, 1/24/12) — An exasperated, exhausted immature eagle which had entrapped itself inside a crab pot was able to fly to safety after an officer climbed a stack of crab pots and cut a raptor-sized hole in the netting.

Noise Disturbance (00:24 hrs, 3/3/12) — Caller reported hearing a fight in progress at a neighboring residence. A wet woman clad only in a bath towel abashedly explained to responding officers that the "fight" they were investigating at her house was simply loud intimate relations.

Zambia

A bloke walked into a police station and asked could police inform his girlfriend he wanted to break up with her.

He brought her in an all.

atreyugk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBDEb8slVxs

this has to be a joke! 1:16 "what else do we do? oh yeah this one" makey upy stretchy bendy...