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Moon Over Wales

by Hal_10000

It’s nice to know that our British cousins have their fair share of morons:

Police called out to a 999 call about an unexplained object in the night sky solved the mystery straight away for their operator - “it’s the Moon, over.”

But the emergency call meant the officers were sent out to a house in the valleys area of south Wales.

They were told a “bright stationary object” was spotted above the unnamed caller’s home.

A recording of the call has been released as part of a police campaign asking people to use 999 appropriately.

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Control room staff also dealt with a stream of unsuitable calls on the 999 number during an “extremely busy period”, said a spokesman.
Another caller rang asking for help when they wanted to vote for Rhydian on the TV programme X-Factor.

I have to think that this was someone’s idea of a prank.  No one’s stupid enough to mistake the moon for a UFO, are they?

Comments

Posted by InsipiD on 07/05/08 at 01:41 PM from

Stupid enough, probably not.  Drunk enough, stoned enough, or missing corrective lenses enough maybe.

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 07/05/08 at 01:49 PM from

There have been cases of people mistaking a lost dog or cat for a wild bear. I also strongly suspect alchohol is involved in many of these calls.

Posted by HARLEY on 07/05/08 at 02:15 PM from

ok one of you all need to top post this story !!! LOL

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