British Army Answerphone

[johnofgwent]

How about calling the police?

They won't give numbers of individual police stations. They don't want you to call 999, so they get 112 introduced but there is a queue to answer it and a charge to call them.

I have all but given up.



Although I have to say, the day before the lockdown some T@@@ abandoned a transit van they must have nicked by parking it sideways in the main road up from the house and i nearly hit it running my grand-daughter home.



I dialled the 101 non emergency number to say if they did not come out quick someone was almost certain to crash into this van as it's on a blind bend sideways in the road they actually answered inside six rings and even more amazingly as I pulled away, in my rear view mirror looking back down the hill towards the village where they have the spare car parked, I saw blue lights shifting apace, so they actually woke the sleeping policeman and got him to earn his keep for a change !

[johnofgwent]

No Borchester is rubbish at embedding YouTube vids,now fixed  ::  ::

Aha



And yes, it was a laugh



Cheers

[papasmurf]

They won't give numbers of individual police stations. They don't want you to call 999, so they get 112 introduced but there is a queue to answer it and a charge to call them. We already pay for the police through our taxes.

Customer service in this country has gone to pot.

Sometimes face to face is the only way to get anything done, but it is nearly impossible.

Some years ago I marshalled a street event, that entailed shutting off a town centre to ALL traffic.  I was, I suspect mistakenly, give a list of every local police officers mobile phone numbers and not accessible to the public police office numbers.

[Barry]

One of the things I get from this is that most big companies and organisations really do put barriers up all the time to stop us contacting them.

How many emails do we get from utilities etc. where we would love to reply, but it is a send only email address. If we want to contact them we have to go through contortions on their website.

My wife had 3 Microsoft accounts over the years, we tried to delete two of those this morning, but although we were logged in to the one we wanted to delete, it actually deleted the account we did not want to delete.

We rang Microsoft and tried to speak to someone. For security, please enter 350 on your phone. *enters 350* sorry nothing was entered. 2 more attempts then cut off.

How about calling the police?

They won't give numbers of individual police stations. They don't want you to call 999, so they get 112 introduced but there is a queue to answer it and a charge to call them. We already pay for the police through our taxes.

Customer service in this country has gone to pot.

Sometimes face to face is the only way to get anything done, but it is nearly impossible.

[cromwell]

Many thanks Ollie.



Actually, I tried, albeit not very successfully.



I put the address in the Youtube thingie and trimmed the URL letter/number one at a time. Still no joy. My great grandmother  would leave the room when grand dad let the little chap out of the radio for his dinner. That may be the problem. Maybe my computer needs feeding?

No worries having characters on the forum is good

[Borchester]

No Borchester is rubbish at embedding YouTube vids,now fixed  ::  ::

Many thanks Ollie.



Actually, I tried, albeit not very successfully.



I put the address in the Youtube thingie and trimmed the URL letter/number one at a time. Still no joy. My great grandmother  would leave the room when grand dad let the little chap out of the radio for his dinner. That may be the problem. Maybe my computer needs feeding?

[papasmurf]

There should be a similar video for the police.

[cromwell]

An error Occurred Please Try Again Later



Some sort of audio streaming issue at youtube's end i guess

No Borchester is rubbish at embedding YouTube vids,now fixed  ::  ::

[johnofgwent]

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Some sort of audio streaming issue at youtube's end i guess

[Borchester]

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