Police say hamster birth, bad pizza or sasquatch sighting not worth calling 911

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By The Canadian Press


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VANCOUVER - One person's crime in progress is another person's hamster invasion, say RCMP in Coquitlam, B.C., who are reminding callers how to use the 911 emergency line.

Const. Jamie Chung says some calls to 911 aren't an emergency at all, like the angry man who called after buying a hamster that gave birth to a litter of 10.

He says the man was upset because the store refused to give him a refund and his next call was to 911.

Chung says the call-taker explained the 911 line isn't there to settle consumer disputes and talked the man out of dropping the hamster brood off in the Mounties' parking lot.

The officer says emergency operators have taken calls for everything from chickens crossing the road to bad pizza and even a sasquatch sighting.

He says people need to remember that calling 911 is for emergencies only, such as crimes in progress or where people or property are being threatened.

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Funniest 9-1-1 Calls of 2012


December 28, 2012 – Not every phone call that 9-1-1 gets is exactly an emergency; sometimes they're just downright funny or strange!

The Chatham-Kent municipality in Ontario, Canada decided to share their funniest, weirdest, and most bizarre 9-1-1 calls of 2012 with the world for the fourth year in a row. The list contains reports of just about everything from a suspicious looking squirrel to missing dentures!

Read on for some side-splitting silly calls, but make sure that you never call 9-1-1 unless a serious crime has been committed or you or someone else is very hurt, very sick, or in danger.



One man went into the Wallaceburg police station looking for his lost dentures and asked if anyone had turned in a pair. The man did not find them in the police station's lost and found.
A man reported that someone had gone into his unlocked car and stolen a donut and winning coffee cups from the Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons.
A man called to report that birds 'damaged' his car by pooing on it!
One man called 9-1-1 to report a suspicious looking squirrel on his front porch,
Another man called to report that a large snapping turtle on a sidewalk looked like it was ready to jump into oncoming traffic.
A woman who had just watered her plants called to report her downstairs neighbour who said that the water from the plants dripped onto her dog in the downstairs apartment.
A 13-year-old girl called to report her mother who would not allow the girl to do her own laundry.
One man called to complain about an inaccurate weather report. A radio station said that there would be "slight flurries" and he thought that the weather was more like a "snowstorm."
One woman called and said that a duck had just attacked her and then it just sat in a puddle and stared at her. The woman did not suffer any injuries.
Police were called to calm down a 63-year-old father and his 20-year-old son who were arguing about the son brushing his teeth. The father told his son to brush his teeth and the son refused. Police made the boy brush his teeth immediately, which made his father very happy.



The cutest call of the year was from a three-year-old boy who was worried about Lightning McQueen's safety while Chick Hicks was chasing him!

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One woman called and said that a duck had just attacked her and then it just sat in a puddle and stared at her. The woman did not suffer any injuries.

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