Police Shame Pranksters On YouTube 390
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?"
Jolly Good! (Score:5, Funny)
Ooh, Sounds fun! (Score:4, Funny)
Itsatrick (Score:4, Funny)
Anyone else think that British Police *is* the one going after Youtube fame because they weren't getting enough channel views?
My YouTube is slow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Salmon sandwiches, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
The salmon sandwiches are left over from last night! Oh no!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuWcM0kq2U [youtube.com]
Re:Youtube?! (Score:2, Funny)
How can you shame anyone posting to one of the lagest shameless places on the net?
Are you talking about youtube or slashdot?
Re:My YouTube is slow (Score:2, Funny)
How to deal with hoax emergency calls... (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Bloody Brilliant Idea (Score:5, Funny)
I can't wait to see these events on tv. I wonder if anyone will spontaneously catch fire after they lose an event?
Re:Privacy? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:My YouTube is slow (Score:1, Funny)
Offer to do some construction for Ted Stevens. He can unclog your YouTubes.
Re:TRUFAX. (Score:5, Funny)
What, in England?!
Re:How about citizens shaming the police? (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:How about a dead mouse on a porch? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Brilliant... (Score:2, Funny)
As anyone who has watched Monty Python will know [youtube.com], elderly ladies can be just as much a hazard to society as young hooligans.
Re:Don't feed the trolls? (Score:2, Funny)
That'll teach him.
Re:Congrats, America!!! (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:How about a dead mouse on a porch? (Score:3, Funny)
What is this "bus queue" of which you talk? How can one jump it if it does not exist?
Re:Bloody Brilliant Idea (Score:3, Funny)
- 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 [bbc.co.uk]
(just as well they didn't call out Torchwood for that one).
Re:Jolly Good! (Score:1, Funny)
Here [youtube.com] is a prank call I can get behind.
"Prank caller, prank caller!"