Wednesday, 12 October 2022

All The Technology In The World Won't Help...

Police took three days to find the missing body of an 85-year-old man in his car​...

Yeah, Police Scotland does have a reputation for this, after all. 

...that had automatically called 999 when he crashed.

Wait, what? You couldn't make it up, could you?

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6 comments:

  1. Doonhamer12 October 2022 at 09:56

    Can I suggest a Polis get-out?
    If the car ended up off the road, then obviously it is not the responsibility of the Highlands and Islands Road Policing Unit, HAIRPU.

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  2. Fahrenheit21112 October 2022 at 10:07

    The relevant officers were probably at a diversity training course which in today's police forces appears to take priority over actual police work.

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  3. MTG112 October 2022 at 14:35

    'The relevant officers were probably at a diversity training course..'

    Nah...without additional financial incentives for attendees, a training course is too much like work for the chronic stay-at-home malingerers.

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  4. Anonymous12 October 2022 at 18:35

    "Called 999"

    Have you actually tried it recently?

    I can't speak to nationally, but my personal experience is that after waiting some few minutes I finally got to spend ten minutes pressing pressing additional 'option' keys ("If you would like to hear the emergency service options in Urdu, with Gujarati subtitles - in a racially sensitive mauve tint, press option #2674").

    I 'did' eventually get through to a well-spoken lady who 'patiently' informed me I "needed to call 101" as "being assaulted, though not just right at that moment - since I was too busy lying on the floor bleeding, was not an emergency".

    So? I suspect the poor automatic call was stuck somewhere between option #1 "Has someone said something you don't like on Twatter?", to option #3724 "Are you currently bleeding to death?". I'd say three days was about right, even for a person wading through the farcical system.

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  5. JuliaM16 October 2022 at 07:57

    "The relevant officers were probably at a diversity training course..."

    Well, quite!

    "So? I suspect the poor automatic call was stuck somewhere between option #1 "Has someone said something you don't like on Twatter?", to option #3724 "Are you currently bleeding to death?". I'd say three days was about right, even for a person wading through the farcical system."

    Good grief, does nothing work anymore?

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  6. The Cowboy Online17 October 2022 at 22:59

    Dial 999? What's the point of that? Should have got tweeted a transphobic slur. Far more effective in getting plod's attention.

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