Keep them hanging on the telephone

I really enjoyed the list of bizarre calls received by council customer services teams issued by the Local Government Association last week.

My favourites of the top ten were all from Surrey:

"Am I allowed to shoot a gun across a public footpath?"
"Am I allowed to roll up a zebra crossing?"
"Can I register the death of a person even though they aren’t dead yet?"

But there’s more… a gentleman from Dumfries was good enough to put a comment on the LocalGov.co.uk website saying that his staff had taken a call from resident who ‘had a goose stuck in their cat flap and wanted to know what to do about it’.(?!)

If you have any other examples of bizarre calls to customer helplines, the folk at LocalGov.co.uk would really like to hear from you. Email them here.