Police are urging people to only phone 999 in case of an emergency after someone called to ask where they could buy Brussels sprouts for their Christmas dinner.
South Wales Police posted a clip of the phone call after outlining how many non-valid calls they received over the year.
The force say that out of 230,000 999 calls only 68,000 of them were actually valid.
On the one call outlined by the police, the caller can be heard asking: “Where can I buy Brussels sprouts?”
The bemused responder on the other end of the call said “pardon?” before the caller repeats the question.
After being told that the line is for emergencies only, the caller said: “It is an emergency.
“I haven’t got any sprouts for Christmas dinner.”
Callers have also used the 999 line to report a neighbour’s cat, a bad toothache and that an ATM has swallowed their card in 2019.
Temporary inspector Gary Lloyd, of North Wales Police, said: “Each unnecessary call to us reduces time available for calls which are for genuine policing matters.
“Phoning 999 – which is an emergency line, for trivial matters such as telling us a taxi hasn’t turned up is a complete waste of resources, and could possibly prevent a genuine life or death emergency call being put through.”
