Revellers in North Yorkshire urged not to call 999 if their takeaway doesn’t show up

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  1. I’m sorry but what the fuck? These twats should just be heavily fined for such dumb shit. They’ll think twice about phoning 999 after a £1000 fine.

  2. It’s also been mentioned (on radio not in the article) that elderly citizens have taken to ringing it for the sake of conversations and having company. FFS

  3. > Do not be one of those people – we don’t want to know that your pizza has not been delivered.

    Just for arguments sake, if its pre-paid, and it never shows up, haven’t you been robbed? As in, dishonestly deprived of property (a pizza)?

    Not saying calling 999 over a fucking missing pizza is alright, but also. If they have enough time to be hassling people for smoking a bit of pot…

  4. They way Ive heard it, dont bother calling 999 if youve fallen down the stairs and broken your hip either. Aint no one coming to help these days.

  5. Yeah yeah of course it would be us northerners, the thing is I don’t think you understand how much of an emergency it is when I have specifically ordered my pizza to come at 7 o’clock and not a minute after its disgusting!

  6. Fine people or shut the fuck up. The kind of people who phone up for this shit aren’t going to read this article

  7. I swear they put out stories like this to make you feel bad for calling 999 at all, no one who isn’t a fucking idiot or mentally ill is ringing 999 for a takeaway and I can imagine it doesn’t actually happen enough to warrant a massive speech about it.

  8. This sounds like it is a temporary situation, and once they have enough capacity again, they are happy to take your complaints about takeaway.

  9. The headline is misleading

    The issue is when people have their takeaways/deliveries stolen.

    Of course they shouldn’t call 999 but they should be able to report it because this is a growing issue and it’s largely unreported. Lmao some people literally commenting here they should go to prison (wtf!)

  10. How these things happen I will never know but I attended a 999 call refer for somebody who had cut his finger on a Pot Noodle. So I made a twenty mile blue light run in freezing conditions for nothing, what a waste of an ambulance resource.

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