In the depths of winter a woman asked for some paramedics to come round and bring in her washing. She told the operator that the path was too icy to walk down and the washing needed to be brought in.

A Liverpool man phoned to complain that a takeaway company had put mushrooms on his pizza, even though he hated them. He wanted the police to demand that the pizza restaurant remove the offending vegetable and give the owners a caution.

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