tomder55
Jul 7, 2008, 03:48 AM
In order to show an example of how time is wasted for the police with calls to the police emergency line, police released a transcript of one such call :
Control: "South Wales Police, what's your emergency?"
Caller: "It's not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there's a bright stationary object."
Control: "Right."
Caller: "If you've got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It's been there at least half an hour and it's still there."
That was a portion of the 999 call received by the police in Wales from a South Wales resident The police were dispatched to observe the "stationary object" that concerned the resident.
The police then called their control room to report their findings :
Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?"
Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over."
Moon mistaken for UFO - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2248463/Moon-mistaken-for-UFO.html)
Control: "South Wales Police, what's your emergency?"
Caller: "It's not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there's a bright stationary object."
Control: "Right."
Caller: "If you've got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It's been there at least half an hour and it's still there."
That was a portion of the 999 call received by the police in Wales from a South Wales resident The police were dispatched to observe the "stationary object" that concerned the resident.
The police then called their control room to report their findings :
Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?"
Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over."
Moon mistaken for UFO - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2248463/Moon-mistaken-for-UFO.html)