Police managed to track the caller down (Picture: Getty)

A peeved punter was so upset when the prostitute he ordered did not match his expectations, he rang 999 to complain to police.

The shameless customer bluntly told the working girl she was not the Pretty Woman he’d been hoping for when she turned up to meet him outside a hotel.

When she responded by angrily grabbing his car keys, he reported her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act.

Stunned emergency operators listened as he bitterly complained she had misled him about her appearance – when it was he who had broken the law by soliciting for sex.


‘It was unbelievable,’ said Sgt Jerome Moran. ‘He believed he had done nothing wrong and that the woman should have been investigated by police for misrepresentation.’



The unnamed man called 999 in Solihull on Tuesday night after the woman took the keys, ran away from his car and threw them back at him.

The female officer who spoke to him hung up after he launched into his bizarre complaint.

But Sgt Moran later phoned him back to give him some words of advice.

Still not chastened, the angry caller threatened to come down to the station to debate the matter further.

He refused to give his name and never turned up but officers have sent him a letter after managing to identify him.

In an unusual step, they have released the tape of his initial call to ‘highlight regular abuse’ of the 999 number.

In the recording, the man says the prostitute ‘got her knickers in a twist’ when he backed out of their deal. He adds: ‘Beforehand I have asked for a description of her – give me an honest description otherwise when I get there I’m not going to use your services.

‘She’s mis-described and misrepresented herself totally.

‘She was angry – she thinks I owe her a living or something.’