Cat Ate Bacon: Man Makes Ridiculous Phone Call To Police Over Girlfriend’s Cat

A cat ate some bacon and a man called the police hoping to have an arrest made. It’s unknown when exactly this happened, but the incident took place in West Yorkshire, U.K.

Huffington Post reports that a man dialed 999 — which is Britian’s version of 911 in the U.S. — over his girlfriend’s cat munching on his bacon.

The 999 dispatcher asked the man: “What’s your emergency?”

He responded: “Er..me girlfriend has let the cat eat my bacon.”

The phone call lasted 90 seconds. Apparently, the man’s case wasn’t an emergency even though he believed that his girlfriend and her cat that ate the bacon should have gotten into some sort of trouble.

At the end of the phone call, the dispatcher tells the man, “Sir, it’s not a criminal offense to let your cat eat your bacon. And we don’t arrest cats.”

The West Yorkshire Police decided to make this crazy phone public “in order to raise awareness of the proper use of 999,” according to the report.

Tom Donahoe is head of the 999 dispatch team and told the Yorkshire Evening Post that his office gets close to 1,000 emergency calls daily. He notes that not all of them are real emergencies.

“Someone rang us at two in the morning to ask us who the actor was that played Magnum P.I. It was driving him mad, he was with his friends and couldn’t think of the answer, so he rang the police.”

As Donahue points out, phone calls like the one about the cat that ate bacon is a waste of emergency resources. There are true emergencies that must be addressed, and abusing the 999 system is inexcusable.

Donahue expressed to the Mirror his frustration with people who make poor choices when making an emergency phone call over non-emergency situations.

“The serious point is that, a lot of the time we’re talking about a matter of seconds between us being able to get to a genuine emergency effectively and not being able to and therefore having people’s lives put at risk.”

The Inquisitr has written on similar stories that have to do with people in the U.S. calling 911 for no good reason. This is especially true about a woman who dialed a 911 dispatcher to complain about her Chinese food.

There might be the occasional issue that people just don’t think. Maybe they think that their emergency is urgent when in actuality it’s a blatant waste of time and money for those responding to a so-called personal situation.

The cat that ate bacon definitely doesn’t rank high in the emergency department, most would agree.

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