Triple 000

[A Mum]

I'm hoping more 'good news' stories to come out of this than bad !

Have seen a few episodes of Triple Zero Heros....
Tear jerking and happy endings after horrific emergencies.

So I wonder....

SAFooty members....

Have you ever had to call 000 ??

Yes or no, do you have a story to tell ??

[Footy Chick]

Actually had to call it twice in one week going back a few months ago, once because someone decided to torch a car in a business carpark across the road and then a couple of days later because a young girl in a mini got polaxed at the Magill/Glynburn Road intersection (she missed me by about a metre).

Yep, and several times for bloody football injuries

[Booney]

Actually had to call it twice in one week going back a few months ago, once because someone decided to torch a car in a business carpark across the road and then a couple of days later because a young girl in a mini got polaxed at the Magill/Glynburn Road intersection (she missed me by about a metre).

Yep, and several times for bloody football injuries

She have nice legs?

[A Mum]

I had to ring once when....

My husband, myself in the car, with the 3 kids then aged 4, 6, 9 were backing into my mother-in-laws driveway at Christie Downs, when this guy comes sceaming/running down the road and taps on my husbands window and says "Help, Help, Help there's a guy with a gun chasing me"

My husbands window was only down about 4cm and so instinct obviously told him not to wind it down any further.
Within seconds there was a guy standing about 5 metres away pointing the gun at this guy, direct line of fire was us

Thinking of our safety I just said to my husband "Drive off" "Drive off" !!

My husband feeling really bad says "Sorry mate" and we drive off.

Immediately I phone 000 to report whats happening and we go around the block.
The police were there literally in 5 minutes tops, they were expceptionally fast !!

We then drove back to my mother-in-laws and the police came to the house 'when it was all over'.
The guy being chased had been 'beaten' and it was all over drugs !!!

Was extremely scary, and although looking back seems mean to have driven off from the guy in need,
but there was no way I was putting my kids in any kind of danger by hanging around !!

[Pseudo]

Not myself, but the missus called 000 early last year when the next door neighbour's house burnt down. I initially thought they'd contracted Punky to deal with their mouse problem but the culprit turned out to be the family's youngest son (8ish) playing with matches in the backyard.

[footy1992]

Once when i was sitting on the computer "SA Footying" saw smoke out the front window, went outside for a look and someone had started a fire in my front yard. Legged it back inside grabbed the cordless phone and a little 1KG fire extinguisher and started attempting to put it out. A few people saw me / the 20m flames and stopped to lend a hand (one an off duty cop)(mate i never got to thank you but cheers buddy!!) i grabbed any buckets and a hose and people were doing what they could to get it out.

We got it out just as the firies turned up and they finished it off for us!

I tell u what i felt adrenaline that day!

[Dogwatcher]

When I was about 20, I rang 000 when some yob was driving like an idiot on the MNR and forced another car off the road and kept driving.

[Thiele]

Just the other week my next door neighbour thought he was having heart attack Panic station hit the house hold called the Ambulance. It was just an irregular heart beat

[Bully]

Being in the Communications industry, i have to make test calls to 000 number everytime i install a phone system, if i dont test this when the job is finished and someone calls 000 and it doesnt work my company can get hit with a major fine of 250,000 plus. So yes i have called this number, could almost put it on speed dial.

[Psyber]

Twice; once when I spotted a fire that had been put out earlier flaring up, and more recently when my wife died last October.

[JAS]

Assume that's the same as our '999'...police, fire, ambulance and coast guard etc.

Only ever called them once 12 years ago when I was a witness to a suicide.

Btw for anyone visiting the UK...make a note...it's 999 here not 000

Regards
JAS

[The Yetti]

Rang Triple 000 on Friday Night/Saturday Morning...1.09am

TWICE

A stolen Car was set alight 200 metres from our house, just as my lad was getting home.
He woke me up to tell me there was a car with its headlights on high beam and a red glow coming from it.
Rang to call the fire Brigade and then had to re ring to get the police.

We are about 6 k North from McLaren Vale on a little vineyard. Police there in 8 minutes and FireBrigade from Blewitt Springs and McLaren Vale 2 minutes later. Car totally burnt out and was towed away when I got back from Work in town tonight

[gadj1976]

Twice - first time in 1991. My dad was overseas in Italy at the time. I got home fairly late from my ex's place to find my mum struggling for breath (she and I are asthmatic). She said "I took these pills and now I can't breath properly". She showed me the pills, they were prescription tablets for high blood pressure. She said "ring an ambulance, I don't think I'm gonna make it". We went through the normal process of her taking her ventolin but it was progressively getting worse and she was falling on the bed struggling for breath. She said "ring an ambulance, quick". By the time I got back into the bedroom, she'd gone blue. I tried mouth to mouth - not thinking clearly enough to realise it was futile. My sister and I stood at the top of the driveway thinking mum was dead. The ambo's took about 3 mins from Modbury Hospital, but it felt like 30 minutes. They revived her pretty much straight away by injecting a muscle relaxant. She survives to this day, with short term memory loss. She doesn't remember anything about it. The fun part was trying to track down my dad in Italy to let him know what had happened.

The other time was in 2000. This was slightly less traumatic for me. I was in the markets in Sydney and walking behind this old lady who just collapsed in front of me. After realising she hadn't just tripped, I rang 000. The person on the other end of the phone said the obligatory "where are you" and I said "I dunno, I'll have to find out". By the time I chased someone down to advise where I was, she was resting on a bench, so I had to ring back and "cancel" the ambo.

[A Mum]

I can sympathise with you and your mum gadj1976.
Was going to post this one earlier as well, but ran out of time.

My husband had to phone 000 for me 8 years ago.

It was a Sunday afternoon and my husband was laying on the lounge watching a one day cricket match.

I was in another room when I all of a sudden discovered I couldn't breath !! (I am asthmatic)

I called out to my eldest son and asked him could he please bring my ventolin, which he did.
I took several puffs and thought, hmm, still can't breath, this is pretty serious-
So I yelled out to my husband, and he responded like all good husbands would - lying on the lounge watching cricket.. with "Yeah"
That was it.... he didn't budge !
"Yeah" turned into "Oh shit" and the biggest jump off the lounge you've ever seen,
when I stumbled into the room and he took one look at me and I was pale and blue !!

He said "Shall I ring an ambulance" and I whispered "I think you should"

As soon as he rang the ambulance he phoned his sister and asked if she could come over and watch the kids.

The ambulance arrives and they inject me with adreniline and put a mask on me etc.
Which I immediately have a reaction to and vomit all over the carpet.

They load me up into the ambulance and at the time I did not know,
but they told my husband to get to the hospital ASAP as they didn't know whether I would 'make it' or not.

There I was going priority one from McLaren Vale to Noarlunga Hospital,
However enroute they decided I was too serious to go to Noarlunga that I needed to go straight to Flinders.

It was a very, very scary time, moreso for my husband, because looking at me, he seriously contimplated that I wasn't going to make it.
He was a bit of a 'mess' once he got to hospital and they had stablised me and let him in to see me.
Touch wood this has not happened to me since, and I hope it never will again.

Never take life for granted people.

So there you have it.
1 time above where I had to call 000
1 time where my husband had to call 000

[Magpiespower]

Local fire brigade had to put up a sign like this:

"Do not call 911 in an emergency. CALL 000".

Dead serious.

[Sojourner]

If you join the Stone Cutters, we will tell you what the actual number really is!

[the big bang]

I had to ring once when....

My husband, myself in the car, with the 3 kids then aged 4, 6, 9 were backing into my mother-in-laws driveway at Christie Downs, when this guy comes sceaming/running down the road and taps on my husbands window and says "Help, Help, Help there's a guy with a gun chasing me"

My husbands window was only down about 4cm and so instinct obviously told him not to wind it down any further.
Within seconds there was a guy standing about 5 metres away pointing the gun at this guy, direct line of fire was us

Thinking of our safety I just said to my husband "Drive off" "Drive off" !!

My husband feeling really bad says "Sorry mate" and we drive off.

Immediately I phone 000 to report whats happening and we go around the block.
The police were there literally in 5 minutes tops, they were expceptionally fast !!

We then drove back to my mother-in-laws and the police came to the house 'when it was all over'.
The guy being chased had been 'beaten' and it was all over drugs !!!

Was extremely scary, and although looking back seems mean to have driven off from the guy in need,
but there was no way I was putting my kids in any kind of danger by hanging around !!

christies downs, guns and drugs all involved in the one story? NO!!!!!

[HH3]

A passer by called 000 when i got jumped on the way home from work in 2007. Got beat up pretty bad and the wankers took all my stuff. Never got to thank the passer by because the police wouldnt give me his name or phone number.

By the way....

Did you know that if the ambos pick you up from the crime scene its free...but if they pick you up from your house 80m up the road where you've gone to inspect your smashed in face and get help from housemates they charge you a massive fee.

I ended up refusing to go with them because i was on a trainee wage and only went to the hospital later that night because my mates insisted.

Then spent most of the next day at the police station with the CSI dudes...then the next day at the dentist.

[HH3]

Local fire brigade had to put up a sign like this:

"Do not call 911 in an emergency. CALL 000".

Dead serious.

Now i think if you call 911 it goes to the police station too coz kids watch a lot of american tv and see 911 all the time.

[Punk Rooster]

Local fire brigade had to put up a sign like this:

"Do not call 911 in an emergency. CALL 000".

Dead serious.

Now i think if you call 911 it goes to the police station too coz kids watch a lot of american tv and see 911 all the time.

another way to fix it would be to ban yank tv altogether... (especially those type of shows)