Thread:Comments:'Completely irresponsible' woman called emergency services to report theft of snowman/999?/reply (9)

I have to ask if you've seen, let alone used a rotary dial phone?

You stick your finger in the appropriately numbered hole, and turn to the stop. 111 or 999, both would be dialled as accurately as the other. The issue is pulse dialling, now long-superceded by tone dial.

Find a real telecoms engineer and they'll confirm the correctness of what I've said. I have several in my family, grew up at a time when rotary phones were still commonplace, and prefer to know things than spout poorly formed guesses.