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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Charging for a genuine call is NOT the answer..
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I don't know. Maybe moving to a charging system for all the emergency services might be a plan.
£50 a pop for CPR by a paramedic, £10 extra every time you get shocked with a defibralator
£250 for getting a cat out a tree by Trumpton, cut down to a fiver if they just shoot it down with a burst of water from a hose.
£100 for Plod to sit at the bottom of your street with a speedgun for an hour so the kiddies can play in the street without being taken out by a boy racer.
I am kidding by the way 
The £20 comments was half-joking. Obviously it would never work with PAYG mobiles and pay-phones and for persistant abuse phones can already be cut-off.
Seriously though maybe some form of non-emergency number may be the best way forward with people abusing the system named/shamed and if necessary fined.