THE police have urged people to only use the 999 number for essential calls, after a child called to ask for help with their maths homework.
The West Yorkshire Police Contact Management Centre often tweet some of the more unusual phone calls they receive from the general public.
And this tweet this morning was no exception after a call to police from someone asking for help, presumably during home schooling due to the nation's lockdown.
Please keep an eye on what your children are doing on their phones whilst off school... ringing 999 to report you're struggling with your maths homework is #Not999
— WYP Contact Management Centre (@WYP_Contact) March 27, 2020
The West Yorkshire phone line have also received the two time wasting calls earlier this week asking for advice on when Asda opened and help removing a snake from someone's house.
These follow three different occasions earlier this year when people have wrongly used the service for more unusual calls.
Someone used the service to complain about Royal Mail not delivering their parcel after they had initially given them the wrong postcode.
An angry caller rang the emergency line to ask the service to ring their doctors as they were fed up of waiting 30 minutes to try to get through.
A caller also rang the number complaining they could not get chicken nuggets from a branch of McDonald’s.
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