Having a bottom covered in poo can often SEEM like an emergency, but this is a tad extreme.

A man found that he’d hit the dreaded last sheet, and called 999.

‘What is your emergency?’ asks the call handler.

He says, ‘Erm, I have run out of toilet roll.’


There’s a pause for this to sink in, and then the call handler asks, ‘And you are calling 999 for that reason?”

The tape was re-released by Devon and Cornwall police this week, to highlight how people are wasting time with non-emergency calls to 999.

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A spokesman said, ‘t never ceases to amaze how some people turn to the emergency services for the slightest difficulty or perceived crisis.

‘While we are sorting out these non-emergencies, lives may be lost if other people are in real trouble and need our help.