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Have you ever called 999 or 112?

efb

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?

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cml387

punisher5112 wrote: »

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.

Are you a cast member in Fair City?

chakotha

No deliberately but my last phone in pocket with keys and lighter dialled it a handful of times. Serious nuisance!

r93kaey5p2izun

Yes when I needed the Fire Brigade when scumbags set fire to my shed. They took 45 minutes so neighbours had to try and tackle the blaze. They came to the wrong place then moaned to me about poor access as it's a terraced house.

Have had to phone local Garda station for assistance in work a couple of times but wouldn't use the emergency number. No longer phone at home for assistance (burglary, vandalism, harassment) as it seems they're not interested in dealing with people from my area.

Bruthal

Once, while lying on hall floor after snapping the leg on the stairs.

IsaacWunder

Couple of times, when I was a kid, messing. No fake emergency, just dial 999, then hang up when answered.

Called the coca cola freephone telephone number a few times as well. They were great craic.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Yeah, had to call the ambulance for someone having what turned out to be a bleed on her brain.

Called the gards another time for what turned out to be a complete waste of time, but I did it in good faith.

Also saw some auld bint call the gards on my dad in a dispute over a parking space in the headford road shopping centre many years back, the look on her face as they (presumably not in so many words) told her to fcuk off was pretty gratifying

The Backwards Man

Couple of times when I'm not at home, at home usually ring the barracks, local knowledge still trumps centralised 'efficiency'

KomradeBishop

Ya - getting off a dart once, door opened right in front of a guy, who I think had jumped off the pedestrian bridge above the platform.

jjbrien

Had to ring it 3 times so far

Once i was sharing a house with a couple his girl knocks on my door and the lad had overdosed on pain meds. Called 999 that time ambulance showed up but he died a few weeks later in hospital

Once when I was working down the country in Longford we found a guy laying on the footpath in the door of a shop all bloody

The last time as last year we look out our apartment window and seen the shed of at the back of a house on fire. The guards showed up first which was odd we didnt ask for them then the firemen 3 mins later. We were like when we seen the guards there thats the wrong service they sent!!

keith16

KomradeBishop wrote: »

Ya - getting off a dart once, door opened right in front of a guy, who I think had jumped off the pedestrian bridge above the platform.

Jesus H

conorh91

I was in a shop once, and a junkie came in and started screaming at the teller, then picking u items and throwing them. A few of us started trying to calm down the junkie who picked something off the counter and ran off. I rang the Gardaí, who hadn't arrived when I left the teller 15 minutes later.

Another time I was out for a jog one night and the neighbours house alarm was going off. I knew they were away so I range he Gardaí. The local station closed down, and I didn't know the number of the next local station, so I rang 999.

During another 'crime-fighting jog' of mine, when some drugged idiots started somersaulting and pushing one another into the canal from a bridge at quite a height. They were narrowly avoiding a large metal object sticking out of the bridge, which could cause serious injury. Maybe I should have taken a Darwinian approach, but these idiots will only cost more by doing harm to themselves. I was uncertain about which station was most local, and wouldn't have had their number anyway, so felt I had to ring the emergency services instead.

Most recently, I was driving on a bad stretch of road from Carlow to Dublin, and was the second car to happen across a crash. The occupants of both vehicles were being dealt with, and I called an ambulance.

I seem to be a serial emergency services dialer.

Bitta trivia: if you dial 911 in Ireland, you will get through to the emergency services.

PandaPoo

Twice, first time I found my baby unconscious and the second was when a woman was mugged. Both response times were great I have to say.

honeybear

I called them last year. I was on a bypass and a car was driving in the wrong direction and I had to swerve to avoid them-it was terrifying

smash

I did it once when I was drunk and I lost my phone. I was 20 at the time and I wanted to report my mobile phone as stolen just to make sure there was a report so the insurance would pay out. They weren't impressed, and it turned out that I was calling from my 'stolen' mobile.

KomradeBishop

keith16 wrote: »

Jesus H

Ya - had to do chest compressions and such until they arrived as well, but he must have been there a while already (which seemed odd - couldn't have been that long since previous train), as was already blue.

Frynge

Yep several times.... Let's see how many I can remember.

Some guy out of his mind on drugs throwing bar stools at me like donkey kong.

When I seen my car being driven out of the driveway from my bedroom.

Second time my car was stolen (although in hindsight that wasn't really an emergency and I was told that on the phone)

When I saw someone ploughed down by a car

When the till was stolen in work (I mean they actually stole the whole till, there was no money in it but they picked up the whole thing and went with it.)

When two guys tried to kick in my front door.

When a hotel went on fire.

When a car outside the hotel was set on fire. (Scumbag was arrested at the scene)

When someone in work threatened to cut my throat.

Couple weeks ago when I totalled a Navara on the n11.

Two weeks ago when getting threatened by a former employee. Who proceeded to then attack the gardai when they arrived and had to be subdued with pepper spray and a couple of batons.

In case anyone is wondering I do have them on speed dial.

myshirt

Has anyone ever called the operator?

cuana

Sadly all the time! Working in retail I've had to deal with a lot of people getting sick very quickly I've yet to deal with my biggest fear which is someone having a heart attack!! :eek:

Little CuChulainn

Vojera wrote: »

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.

That's not unusual for that kind of incident in the country. Your call is routed by an outsourced organisation to a Garda divisional control room. The people in the routing center don't communicate with each other so they will keep trying to put you through even though the lines are all tied up with other people reporting the exact same thing.

RobertKK

One time to get the ambulance out for my mother when she broke her pelvis.
Another time for my father.
Worst case was when I was going to mass one Sunday morning,
there was a car in front of me and they slowed down and stop, came across a cyclist laid out across the road and the bike between his legs.
The person in the car in front didn't want to deal with the situation and I just took over the situation.
The man was unconscious and finding it difficult to breathe, he had cuts on his head and on his legs. There was bloody spittle coming from his mouth. The emergency people were great and stayed on the phone till the ambulance came.
They could hear him struggling to breathe and told me what to do, when I did what I told I basically got splattered with bloody spittle, but the main thing was he was breathing better.
The ambulance people came in about 12 minutes, I assisted them and off he went, later taken to Dublin given his situation was serious.
I continued my journey when the situation was resolved and went to mass with speckles of blood on my clothes, had a bit of a clean up in a public toilet.
The Gardai then had an appeal to the public for information about it the following day, so I rang them and they came to my house and I told them what I came across.
I was asked why did I move the bike from where it was to the side of the road and not leave it where it was :rolleyes: as if you would leave the bike where it was, when the important thing was to help the man.
A few months later the Gardai rang looking for another statement and again came to my house. I think they were closing the case, looking to see if the events had somehow changed.
You try and help someone, and then you get the feeling the Gardai think you were somehow responsible.
I think the person driving in front didn't contact the Gardai.

mikemac1

conorh91 wrote: »

Another time I was out for a jog one night and the neighbours house alarm was going off. I knew they were away so I range he Gardaí. The local station closed down, and I didn't know the number of the next local station, so I rang 999.

Those does be alarms blaring in my estate and I guess your estate at any time. They go off so often nobody even cares so the fact that you did care caught my attention. Not many would call if they heard a neighbours alarm going off, probably would start cursing the neighbours instead of calling gardai!

Wompa1

Once...I was a t1t to, as well.

I was on Chatroullette, in fairness, I never used it, it was around the time it started getting recognition for viral videos.

One of the first feckin videos I saw was a video of a guy hanging with a note with an address on it. I looked up the address and saw it was an empty lot. I was going to just skip by and forget it but I had this burning conscience.

So, from Ireland, I called the local police department closest to the location on Google Maps and told them what I saw. I told them it's probably a hoax but I couldn't risk not doing something about it. The dispatcer was perfectly fine with it and understood. I was telling her I didn't mean to make a nuisance call and if it was just a hoax, I was sorry for wasting their time.

Turned out it was a hoax and the address was a video store. I was really paranoid that I'd somehow get tagged for making a nuisance call too but luckily the lady was understanding. They wanted to figure out who was carrying out the hoax because they are responsible for the call more than I was.

Tilly

Yup a few times and I hope I never have to call that number again.

Aineoil

Thankfully I have never had to phone either numbers.

efb

Skylinehead wrote: »

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

If your a taig, just ring 472 and IRA will make them 'disappear'

ratracer

I've called all three emergency services many times, but I've also been an emergency call taker and on that end, although I've dealt with many tragic calls I've also had some of the funniest calls ever to the 999 system - from people in compromising positions to horses that won't eat their food!! , oh and cats stuck in trees!

punisher5112

ratracer wrote: »

I've called all three emergency services many times, but I've also been an emergency call taker and on that end, although I've dealt with many tragic calls I've also had some of the funniest calls ever to the 999 system - from people in compromising positions to horses that won't eat their food!! , oh and cats stuck in trees!

My missus is stuck up a tree but I'll leave her up ther another while yet it's nice and quiet down here at the moment.

amdublin

About 15 years ago for an ambulance when my nana had an aneurysm.

So weird, I rang them gave all the info and this doddery old woman fustered around and said nothing had ccaptured and I'd have to HANG UP AND RING AGAIN????

My nana was lying unconscious and I had to ring again.

ratracer

punisher5112 wrote: »

My missus is stuck up a tree but I'll leave her up ther another while yet it's nice and quiet down here at the moment.

Like the cat, she'll come down when she's hungry!!

Pumpkinseeds

Nope, thanks to some former scumbag neighbours we have the local garda station on speed dial. Nothing like a few death threats from scumbags to keep you alert.