The 'top ten' are:

1. "My power has gone off. Will my Sarah Lee gateaux defrost in the freezer if I keep the door shut and how long would it take?"

2. "The Chinese takeaway I ordered is 45 minutes late. I want you to prosecute the takeaway for ripping me off."

3. "Can one of your officers come around to my house to tell my sons to calm down?"

4. One night during the summer 15 999 calls were made all reporting UFOs in the sky over Cornwall. It turned out the spectacle was lights and lasers from a concert at the Eden Project.

5. "I can see a really rare bird sitting on top of a telegraph pole – who shall I ring?"

6. "I bought a pair of jeans at a shop last week and took them back but the shop won't give me a refund."

7. "There's been a pigeon in my back garden for the past three days – it's got a tag on."

8. "I have lost my shoplifting ticket I was given when I was arrested last week."

9. "Can you put me in touch with whoever deals with noise pollution as there is a builder using an angle grinder outside?"

10. A woman dialled 999 after waking up with her duvet covering her head and panicking.


Meanwhile over the past year RSPCA officers were kept busy with their own flurry of nonsense calls.

1. A member of the public rang to report a slow-moving tortoise on the hard shoulder of a motorway. After calling on the Highways Agency for assistance, they tracked down a deflated football.

2. Someone reported a seagull was looking sad because it was sitting in the rain.

3. A caller asked if the RSPCA could remove a spider from her bathroom sink.

4. An inspector went to a call that a bat had been on a bedroom ceiling for a number of days. It turned out to be a damp patch.

5. A woman called the emergency telephone number to ask to reserve a chair she saw in an RSPCA charity shop window.

6. Another woman asked if the charity could collect her RSPCA catalogue from her friend's house as she had borrowed it a long time ago and not returned it.

7. One lady rang to say the farm next door smelled and wondered if there was anything they could do about it.

8. A cat-lover wanted advice on why his furry feline did not purr.

9. Staff at a hotel next to a duck pond called saying it was receiving complaints from guests because the ducks could be heard quacking.

10. A man asked for help to remove ladybirds which were climbing up a wall at his house.

Dotyczy rejonu Devon i Kornwalia

W sprawie numer 2, powinni go przekierowac na autora watku "Uwaga na Barclay's Bank" bo on zna prawnika co widocznie nie ma innego zajecia....

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