The disgraceful reason woman prank-called emergency services hundreds of times
A woman has avoided jail after calling emergency services 200 times in two weeks because she was “bored”.
Victoria Cross, from Leicestershire in England, made calls between Christmas and New Year, ITV reported.
One of her calls led to a one-minute delay in paramedics getting to a child in cardiac arrest.
Her number was eventually blocked but she bought SIM cards to continue making calls.
In one of the recordings the operator asks, “Is the patient breathing?”
“Hello, I don’t need an ambulance,” Cross says.
“I don’t need an ambulance. I’m ringing ‘cause I’m bored, okay?”
In another call, the operator asks what her address is.
When it is established she does not need an ambulance and she is fully aware she is ringing emergency services, Cross says she is “bored” and does not “give a s*** about anyone else”.
“I care about myself,” she says with a chuckle.
Cross also says in a third call she is going to “carry on ringing all the way up until five o’clock in the morning”.
She recently appeared in court and was ordered to pay AU$300 in fines and received a conditional discharge for 18 months.
