Is this the right use of 111?
I was watching tv tonight when my husband came in from the garage to say I had a visitor - and it was a policewoman who lives down the road. In uniform, but I said hi, thinking it was a social call. Nope, it wasn't! On Monday night the Brethren neighbours' cat attacked our kitten for the third time in a few months. As all their lights were still on, I rang to let them know what had happened. The husband told me to give his cat a boot, so I said if it got close enough, it would be on my hit list. Apparently his wife took that as a genuine threat and the children (two teenagers aged about 16 and 18) were "very upset". So she rang 111 - shows how seriously they took it, as they visited us tonight, two days later, at about 9.40pm.
The sad thing is, until now we had looked on them as good neighbours, nice and quiet, always friendly. But they have told the police that they have had "ongoing" problems with us - and here is the list - we asked them if they could please trim their shelter belt as it was blocking our view; we asked them to ensure their piles of pig fat were put in the bin as our greedy cat was going over there and gorging himself on it and throwing up, and we let him know three times that their cat had attacked ours.
I was really upset because as you guys know, I am a real animal lover (heaps of donations to the SPCA recently) and would NEVER do anything to harm another person's animals. Yes, I want their cat to stop attacking our kitten on our own doorstep, but I even went as far as ringing the council yesterday to ask if they knew of anything I could use to deter it - not harm it. Does that sound like the actions of someone who would harm an animal? And besides, he has a gun and uses it to shoot pukekos and shags, so we are fully aware that if we ever did anything to his animals, he would more than likely just shoot ours.
Their house is on the market at present, and until now we were genuinely sorry to hear they were moving. After this absolutely pathetic move, we can't wait for them to move. I'm just petrified of anything happening to their cat now, as he'd assume we had done it.
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Originally Posted by Mooch
Talk about a waste of Police time! Imo that is absolute misuse of 111. Wonder what the emergency was? Your neighbor should be charged with wasting police time. How a slightly sarcastic remark about kicking a cat can be turned into a 111 EMERGENCY is beyond me. Maybe the wife forgot to take her meds and was feeling a little threatened.
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