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Posted on 07/05/2009 5:39:34 PM PDT by Chet 99
Woman calls emergency services to report missing hamster
12:15 PM, July 5, 2009
Hamster What's not to love about a hamster? They're pocket-sized, fuzzy and make great substitute racehorses. But one Yorkshire, England, woman took her love of the small rodents a step too far by calling 999 (the British equivalent of 911) when her beloved pet escaped.
"It's my hamster. It's got out of its cage. It's gone into the bathroom and it's gone down into the floorboards," the woman can be heard telling an emergency-line operator in the recently released recording of her frantic 999 call. A short time later, she asks the operator, "Is there any chance anyone could come and help me get it out?"
South Yorkshire police released the recording to draw attention to what they say is a big problem: non-emergency calls placed to the emergency line. (This is hardly just an English problem: A Florida man recently made headlines for his ludicrous 911 call complaining that Burger King was out of lemonade.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
She had better hope it isn’t found by Richard Gere.
Gee, do you think maybe she voted for the commie??
“What’s not to love about a hamster?”
Ours eats carpet. grrrrr.
Waiting for her defenders to enter this thread just as they defended the woman who called 911 because she didn’t get her chicken mcnuggets.
Richard Gere has been named as a person of interest by the police.
Someone could make a mint by devising a device that allows a small electrical shock to be administered over a phone line.
Caller: “Hello, I’d like to report my hamster missing.”
911: “I’m sorry, did you say hamster?”
Caller: “Yes, his name is Fluffy. He’s brown and whi”
911: ZOT.
Caller: (Awakens on the floor with the phone now making that funny beeping sound)
Or in Richard Gere, for that matter.
Talk about an urban legend that will never die. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't such a bed wetting leftist.
I’m not sure what hamsters go for in the UK, but I’m pretty sure she could pick up a new one that looks exactly the same for under a Euro.
Oh, THAT is adorable! :)
I guess people are getting stupider all over the world. This bodes well for “leaders” such as dumbO. Their power relies on the people being stupid.
Well, a lost hamster is a hugh and series crisis!
When your hamster is lost you don’t just sit there like a bump on a log, you get off your ass and you get out there and find that freakin rodent.
You’re right. We’ve had some reports in America of some idiots abusing the 911 public emergency services for trivial nonsense. This is not funny and they should charged with interfering with law enforcement. While the police are wasting time and resources on this sort of crap, the calls of people whose lives may be in imminent danger may not be getting the immediate attention they should.
Maybe it was her mother. And her father smelt of Elderberries.
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“What’s not to love about a hamster?”
They taste like rats.
I can’t confirm they taste like rats, but if the little guy gets out of his cage again I might roast him and let you know if he tastes like chicken.
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