Have you ever called 999 or 112?

efb · 07-04-2015 07:22PM #1

I never have, I googled the local garda station when I had to call them- didnt feel it was an emergency

Have you ever called the emergency services?

punisher5112 · 07-04-2015 07:24PM

efb wrote: »

I never have, I googled the local garda station when I had to call them- didnt feel it was an emergency

Have you ever called the emergency services?

Yeah do all the time that cat outside keeps giving me dirty looks.

alroley · 07-04-2015 07:24PM

yeah, when I was 6 years old, and I got so scared that someone would arrest me for calling 999 and then hanging up.

hagoonabear · 07-04-2015 07:25PM

have rang the garda a few times, when my house was set on fire, when local scum started lighting random fires at corners/ footpaths with wheelie bins

efb · 07-04-2015 07:25PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Yeah do all the time that cat outside keeps giving me dirty looks.

This post is so witty and clever :-/

Avada · 07-04-2015 07:25PM

Yup! The guys in the dublin fire brigade call centre are a credit to DFB. Have had to call a few ambulances and they were always so helpful and nice.

efb · 07-04-2015 07:26PM

hagoonabear wrote: »

have rang the garda a few times, when my house was set on fire, when local scum started lighting random fires at corners/ footpaths with wheelie bins

Yikes!

kneemos · 07-04-2015 07:27PM

Called the fire service once when an old car the landlord was working on caught fire one night.
There in a couple of minutes,must have been passing or something.

Staplor · 07-04-2015 07:27PM

Yep, my neighbour's house was broken into, I rang 999 they said they'd send the Gardai, 15 minutes later I rang the local station, no report reached them. Then the local Gardai station sent for a copper from another town to come investigate. When he arrived the robbers had done their robbing and had gone.

antodeco · 07-04-2015 07:27PM

Yep a few times. Rang them once about a drunk driver on the m50. Swerving between 2 lanes constantly.

NomadicGray · 07-04-2015 07:27PM

Once when there was a house nearby ablaze, but someone else had called it in

jungleman · 07-04-2015 07:29PM

yeah. one night all of my housemates went out while I stayed in, I had an assignment to hand in for the next day. I left the back door unlocked for them, so they wouldn't be ringing the doorbell annoying me when they came in. I was up in my room, had some music playing on the speakers and was happy as larry typing away. Went to sleep then after a while. Woke up the next morning and everyone was downstairs with sore heads on them! One of the girls left her laptop, mp3 player and phone on the kitchen table. She couldn't find any of them, they were gone.

After a while we realised that the house must have been robbed the night before, when they were out and I was upstairs, whoever it was came in the back door which was unlocked. So we walked out the back and saw three of the long and sharp kitchen knifes on the ground outside. Whoever it was came in the back door, grabbed the three knives and was walking around the house. Could even have been upstairs with me listening to music. They could have been in my room when I was asleep.

We rang 999 out of sheer panic, looking back on it now it wasn't an emergency so we probably should have just rang the local station.

07-04-2015 07:29PM

Yes, after I was mugged on the street in London. Two big guys threatened me with a knife at about 5pm and took my money but turned their noses up at my old Nokia, which meant I could use it to call the cops when they left after they told me to keep quiet for 10 minutes or they'd be back to cut my throat. Cops came 20 minutes later, didn't get the guys.

kneemos · 07-04-2015 07:32PM

Candie wrote: »

Yes, after I was mugged on the street in London. Two big guys threatened me with a knife at about 5pm and took my money but turned their noses up at my old Nokia, which meant I could use it to call the cops when they left after they told me to keep quiet for 10 minutes or they'd be back to cut my throat. Cops came 20 minutes later, didn't get the guys.

Did you wait?

07-04-2015 07:34PM

kneemos wrote: »

Did you wait?

I went into a coffee shop and waited, but I was so frightened I was worried they'd come back, follow me in and knife me in there. Fear does strange things to you.

Ruu · 07-04-2015 07:37PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ

No.

Menas · 07-04-2015 07:37PM

Thankfully never had to call them....only bad things happen, or have happened when you have to call them.

NotCominBack · 07-04-2015 07:39PM

Ok, I have an emergency right now, which one do I call, 112 or 999?

endacl · 07-04-2015 07:40PM

NotCominBack wrote: »

Ok, I have an emergency right now, which one do I call, 112 or 999?

See Ruu's post above.

osarusan · 07-04-2015 07:40PM

Yes, called 999 when I was living in Maynooth after a guy got hit by a car while jaywalking across the road (he was right in front of me, doing the same thing).

It was on the main street and they came from literally around the corner, about a minute later.

The guy's face was pretty badly injured but he was ok. I saw him standing at a crossing a few weeks later impatiently pressing the pedestrian crossing button over and over.

punisher5112 · 07-04-2015 07:43PM

NotCominBack wrote: »

Ok, I have an emergency right now, which one do I call, 112 or 999?

911.

LadyAthame · 07-04-2015 07:44PM

Personally no. My mother had to when I had a grand mal seizure in Jan. But I have never needed to. Or actually I think my brother called them. Hopefully we won't be doing that again!

Oh wait I once saw smoke pouring out of a house in Rathmines. I did then. But that was years ago.

punisher5112 · 07-04-2015 07:45PM

I have a number of times for different situations from crashes, robbery in progress, motoring offence drunk driver, pedestrian knocked down, crashes I have been in, ambulance a few times for others.

Cathmandooo · 07-04-2015 07:47PM

Rang once when I saw some young fellas breaking into a warehouse. Garda van arrived within 5 minutes, followed by a squad car a few minutes later, and an unmarked car after that! Couldn't believe it, must be something very fancy in that warehouse.

brummytom · 07-04-2015 07:51PM

I called 111 (NHS Direct) last September when the pain in my side got horrendous, after a day of hoping it would go away. They called 999 for me (ended up being appendicitus), but I don't think I've ever had to call them directly.

Areyouwell · 07-04-2015 07:52PM

efb wrote: »

Have you ever called 999 or 112?

Yes, about 20 years ago when my dad was having a heart attack at home. He survived thank god.

NotCominBack · 07-04-2015 07:52PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

911.

Do I put 01 before that?

looksee · 07-04-2015 07:55PM

I rang 999 when our house seemed to be on fire, smoke and a strong smell of burning but no sign of any flames. There was a mysterious column of smoke rising from the centre of a bed though, even though it obviously was not on fire.

They came pretty quickly and took the house apart looking for the source of the smoke. Eventually it turned out it was coming from a wood burning stove next door, the smoke had got into the cavity walls and floors of the house. Since it was a '70s house and built with the concern for regulations of the time, the smoke was getting into the dividing cavity wall and then under our upstairs floor, coming through the floorboards and by some trick of air circulation was re-gathering on the bed. Whole thing was really weird.

Vojera · 07-04-2015 07:55PM

Not personally, but my wife rang once when I was inside a Lidl that was being robbed at gunpoint and she was outside waiting in the car. She saw a bike pull up outside with the license plate covered and saw the two men on it go inside with their helmets on carrying a handgun and a hammer, so she rang straight away.

The 999 operator patched her through to the local garda station, who didn't pick up the phone. So she kept getting the operator coming back on going "I'm still trying to get you a connection" and no answer them on the other end. By the time she actually got talking to a guard the thieves were gone.

kneemos · 07-04-2015 07:56PM

NotCominBack wrote: »

Do I put 01 before that?

+353 01 911

Skylinehead · 07-04-2015 07:59PM

When I was 5, in my grannies house in Belfast. The RUC weren't very impressed...

Have you ever called 999 or 112?

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