http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4579477.stmAn 86-year-old US woman arrested for incessantly calling the emergency services to complain about a pizza parlour has spent two nights in prison.
Dorothy Densmore of Charlotte, North Carolina, called the emergency 911 service 20 times in 38 minutes.
Angry she could not get the meal delivered to her home, she demanded police arrest the pizza proprietors.
But when she refused to stop calling, police arrived with their own delivery, arresting her for abusing the hotline.
She told police that she had been called a "crazy old coot" by someone at the pizza shop.
Mrs Densmore - who is 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall and weighs 45kg (98 lbs) - has also been charged with resisting arrest.
A police spokeswoman said the octogenarian scratched, kicked and bit the hand of the officer who didn't feed her, after her repeated calls provoked a police response.
She has now been released from jail, pending a court appearance in July, after a judge ordered a medical evaluation.
This should be a thread for other weird and wonderful instances involving the emergency services.
― pizzaman, Thursday, 26 May 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)
link
An elderly man was being hunted by police in Fife after he crashed into a shop - in his mobility scooter.
The OAP ram-raider caused £2000 of damage when he smashed through the glass front door of a charity shop before fleeing empty handed.
A similar ram-raid attack is featured on a current Irn-Bru advert when a balaclava-wearing pensioner rams into a shop in her mobility scooter and nabs a load of the best-selling fizzy drink before escaping.
The real-life incident happened when the Cobweb Foundation shop in Dunfermline was closed for business yesterday.
Staff preparing to open the shop looked on in horror when the scooter came crashing through the front door.
The mystery marauder drove headfirst into the door and on finding himself stuck, cranked his bulky scooter into reverse taking the door frame with him.
As Christmas shoppers looked on in amazement, the pensioner made his escape up the High Street.
Shop manager Alastair Mowbray, 28, said:
"I was inside the shop, just getting ready to open up, when I saw a mature gentleman I didn’t recognise on a mobility scooter coming towards the store.
"He must have just hit the accelerator and came crashing through the door. Then he reversed back out really fast and took the door frame with him.
― Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenk), Thursday, 26 May 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)