{"id":255,"date":"2003-05-04T00:46:05","date_gmt":"2003-05-04T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2003\/05\/04\/stupid-999-calls\/"},"modified":"2003-05-04T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2003-05-04T00:46:05","slug":"stupid-999-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2003\/05\/04\/stupid-999-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid 999 calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avon and Somerset Police have published some excellent examples of people misusing emergency services <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avonandsomerset.police.uk\/communications\/examples_of_999_calls.asp\">here<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/25546\">MeFi<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that a standard number for non-emergency calls to your local police would be a good idea (888 has been suggested).<\/p>\n<p>I rather liked the MeFi comment that seemed to suggest this was all due to the British police being &#8220;disarmed&#8221;.  I&#8217;m not sure when that happened, I obviously missed the bit where they were &#8220;armed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avon and Somerset Police have published some excellent examples of people misusing emergency services here [via MeFi]. This suggests that a standard number for non-emergency calls to your local police would be a good idea (888 has been suggested). I rather liked the MeFi comment that seemed to suggest this was all due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}