“From today, dialing ‘999’ won’t get you the emergency services…”
Perhaps they could just send an email?
Dear Sir/Madam:
Fire! Fire! Help me! 123 Carenden Road. Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Maurice Moss
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Get up, get get get down, 999’s a joke in yo town?
“Ambulance call handler upset people with mental health issues say crazy shit. Hangs up on people experiencing mental health crisis.”
I mean, I get it. Their job is to dispatch the relevant emergency services to people, it’s not a mental health crisis hotline. How long are they supposed to stay on the phone for receiving abuse when there’s other calls waiting? I get that people in an emergency won’t be thinking straight but I can’t fathom why you’d dish out death threats to someone you’ve called that’s trying to help you. I think the handlers have a right not to take that kind of constant abuse.
“Commentator posts hot take, demonstrating a massive lack of empathy to people doing a stressful and important job.”
