Southern Ontario police force releases annual list of silliest 911 calls

CHATHAM-KENT, Ont. — A police force in southwestern Ontario has released a list of the silliest 911 calls it received in 2016, including one where a resident called the emergency line asking for the phone number to the local KFC.

The Chatham-Kent police service says it tries to educate citizens about the importance of calling police when they see crimes or suspicious activities, but on occasion, they say police get calls that don’t quite fit into those categories.

In one call a woman dialled 911 saying all her cable TV programs were in French but she was not French. In another, police had to go to a residence to settle a heated dispute between two neighbours over the ownership of a jar of peanut butter.

The force says they’ve also had a call asking who delivers a local paper in specific neighbourhoods, and a social media inquiry about whether police could help with the temperature in a resident’s apartment.