A woman called the police after missing out on a McDonald's breakfast by a matter of minutes.
The woman had been waiting in a queue at a drive-thru branch of the fast-food restaurant and intended to buy items from the breakfast menu.
But the woman failed to make the 11am cut-off by the time she reached the front of the line and was refused.
She called the police claiming it was unfair that she was unable to tuck into a McMuffin meal.
Officers were far from impressed and gave "words of advice" about phoning them, MirrorOnline reports.
Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Policing Inspector Darren Taylor tweeted: "A call @11.30 this morning from an angry lady who stated that due to the queue at the McDonalds drive thru in EG, by the time she got to the window the breakfast service had stopped and she couldn't order a breakfast.
"The lady was given words of advice about ringing the Police."
Explaining the situation further to The Sun, Inspector Taylor said: “This, of course, upset her and she wanted us to speak to McDonald’s about the situation as she felt it was unfair.
“We kindly informed her this was an incident which she should take up with McDonald’s and was not a police matter and that we would not be investigating her complaint.”
A Twitter follower replied to the inspector's post joking: "Did you give her a frying!"
"Knew there would be no need to egg you on with the puns," Inspector Taylor replied.
Another called the woman a “McMuppet”.
But one said: “To be fair, I had a sausage and egg piece of heaven this morning and I would have been well narked if I’d missed it.”
