Happy 80th birthday to the 999 service

BT is celebrating the 80th birthday of the 999 emergency service line, and while the vast majority of time it is a service to save lives, it seems there are a few people who don’t quite get it.
The service itself was started on 30 June 1937, after a fire in a London doctor’s surgery in November 1935 led to the death of five women. A committee was set up to identify how telephone operators’ could identify emergency calls more easily. The result was to set up a dedicated line, us