misuse of Emergency number occurs here, too People call Australian emergency no. Triple-0 for 'chicken tips' "With as many as 5000 triple-zero calls per week and as many as 95 per cent of these calls for non-emergency reasons, police communications say they unnecessarily test the capacity to respond to genuine emergencies."

Fake calls to 000 also rise sharply in school holiday time!

We also have folks who call 911, even tho they've only ever heard that number on TV or movies. 911 has a message saying to call 000. Dunno whether they also use the UK emergency number.

sandra