Really. Here are some of the bizarre reasons why some people in Wales have rung 999.
1. A woman who dropped a television remote and needed someone to pick it up
2. A woman who had eaten cherries and felt constipated
3. A man who had discovered a bruise on his foot
4. A woman who asked whether the green part of a potato was poisonous
5. A man with a ring stuck on his finger
6. A woman whose boiler had broken and had no credit to call the gas board
7. A man who had a fly in his ear
8. A woman who didn’t have enough money to buy a train ticket
9. A man with a cotton bud stuck in his ear
10. A mother whose daughter had drunk water from a dog bowl
11. A woman who was intoxicated and needed a lift home
12. A woman who needed advice because she had fallen out with her brother
13. A man with blisters on his foot
14. A woman with a cast on her leg and wanted it taken off
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