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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/women-calls-999-over-snowman-theft.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="One of the many snowmen across the UK which remained unstolen" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-women-calls-999-over-snowman-theft.jpg" alt="One of the many snowmen across the UK which remained unstolen"/></a></p>
<p>A woman dialled 999 to report a theft &#8211; of a snowman outside her house.</p>
<p>Police said she thought it demanded their involvement because she had used pound coins for the eyes and teaspoons for the arms.</p>
<p>The woman, from Chatham, Kent, has been &#8220;spoken to&#8221; by officers to advise her about what constitutes a real emergency.</p>
<p>Kent Police issued a transcript of the &#8220;completely irresponsible&#8221; call which they received overnight as they fielded thousands of calls from people because of the sub-zero conditions.</p>
<p>In the call, the woman tells the operator: &#8220;There&#8217;s been a theft from outside my house. I haven&#8217;t been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag and he&#8217;s gone.&#8221;</p>
<p>The operator asks &#8220;Who&#8217;s gone?&#8221; and the woman replies: &#8220;My snowman. I thought that with it being icy and there not being anybody about, he&#8217;d be safe.&#8221;</p>
<p>The incredulous operator asks her: &#8220;Do you mean an ornament?&#8221; The woman replies: &#8220;No, a snowman made of snow, I made him myself. It ain&#8217;t a nice road but you don&#8217;t expect anybody to nick your snowman.&#8221;</p>
<p>The operator then tells her that it is an emergency line and she should not be ringing it to report the theft of a snowman.</p>
<p>Chief Inspector Simon Black, from Kent Police&#8217;s force contact and control centre, said: &#8220;This call could have cost someone&#8217;s life if there was a genuine emergency and they couldn&#8217;t get through. It was completely irresponsible. We have spoken to her and advised her what is a 999 call, and this clearly was not.</p>
<p>&#8220;We do have powers to prosecute people for misusing the 999 system, but in this case the woman genuinely thought this was a theft that she should report because she&#8217;d used pound coins for the eyes and teaspoons for the arms.&#8221;</p>
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