Police harassed by
baby talk
The Haugesund police alarm center was this week inundated by calls to number 112, but the officer on duty was not able to make out what the caller was saying, nor identify him or her.
Finally the police realised that it was a small child who was playing around with a mobile phone, pressing the right buttons for the emergency number.
By the time they had called Telenor for assistance to locate the "operator" they had received 81 calls from the mumbling youngster at the other end.
It turned out to be a three-year old Karmoey boy who had been given his mother's old cell phone to play with. She had removed the SIM card, thinking this would disable the phone, not realising that the phone would still work for the official emergency numbers.
She has now promised to find another toy for her boy.
Source: Norway Post and NRK
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