A police force has appealed to the public to only use its 999 call service for life or death emergencies after one caller rang up about his Halloween pumpkins.
West Yorkshire Police shared a recent call that they had answered from a man in his local Morrisons . In the confusing conversation, the shopper appears to have mistakenly believed that he was owed four free pumpkins with the purchase of a Halloween doll and became embroiled in a row with supermarket staff over the issue, The Mirror reports .
After being asked by the call handler what his emergency was, the man said: “What it is, I’ve just been in Morrisons and I’ve just been sold a clown… whatever it is.
