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Police Shame Pranksters On YouTube
Barence writes "British police are shaming hoax 999 callers and time-wasters on YouTube in an effort to cut down on non-emergency calls. Video clips uploaded include a lady phoning police to ask what year the internet started, the dramatic tale of a man whose wife would only provide salmon sandwiches for lunch, and another worried soul who had lost her glasses and could not see properly to peel potatoes. Anyone else think the chance of YouTube fame is more likely to encourage copycats than educate people about the wrongs of hoax calling?"
Let's start a channel to isolate these hooligans. Keep them all in one place, for our own efficient comic consump-.... I mean, to prevent their debauchery from spreading throughout all of YouTube! (Yeah. Right?)
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I want to go make a prank emergency call too! :D
Anyone else think that British Police *is* the one going after Youtube fame because they weren't getting enough channel views?
My ISP is slow, and I can't download those videos fast enough. Is there anyone I can call for help?
The salmon sandwiches are left over from last night! Oh no!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuWcM0kq2U
How can you shame anyone posting to one of the lagest shameless places on the net?
Are you talking about youtube or slashdot?
Track down the caller's number.
Call them back in a few weeks.
Tell them that you're calling from the hospital and that their parents are dead.
I wouldn't exactly call the Youth of America contenders for the Olympics in the categories of Intelligence and Common Sense.
I can't wait to see these events on tv. I wonder if anyone will spontaneously catch fire after they lose an event?
I don't think the intertubes are big enough to post phone calls of all the asshats in the world. I mean it's not like a truck or anything.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
What, in England?!
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I'd humbly suggest that removing the phone from the house of an elderly, helpless, senile person is probably not a complete solution.
Of course not. You have to board up the doors and windows so they can't get out and cause any more trouble.
As anyone who has watched Monty Python will know, elderly ladies can be just as much a hazard to society as young hooligans.
That'll teach him.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Damn right I'd consider someone in that situation to be a struggling homeowner...you think furnishing my $625,000 place is cheap? I need all the help I can get!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to decide if I want to take the hybrid, the SUV or the hybrid SUV to the unemployment office.
Take your rants someplace where people give a fuck, dipshit.
What is this "bus queue" of which you talk? How can one jump it if it does not exist?
Watch this Heartland Institute video
- Seventhly, it's not 'England', it's the UK! It's high time for the Welsh contribution to ridiculous emergency calls to be fully recognised!:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7489457.stm
(just as well they didn't call out Torchwood for that one).