On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:21:45 -0700 (PDT), sus._by_the_sea@hotmail.com
wrote:
>Thanks Cynic and others for the explanations. It appears Sus.
>police caught most if not all of the chaps further on up the road.
>Apparently at least one was carrying a firearm, which I was not aware
>of at the time.
You said that quite a few people witnessed the incident. So perhaps
the delay in putting you through to the police was because lots of
people had dialled 999 to report it at the same time, swamping the
available police operators.
OTOH on an occasion when I dialled 999 because a woman next to me in a
supermarket had suddenly collapsed and was having a fit, the 999
operator answered immediately but the ambulance service took over 2
minutes to answer. (The ambulance arrived just 4 minutes thereafter,
so not all bad).
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Cynic
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