A concerned Canadian dialed 911 after incorrectly interpreting her neighbour’s early morning loud toilet sounds as an emergency.
At around 5am last Wednesday, a resident in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, grew anxious after hearing prolonged shouting and yelling from the basement suite of her neighbour, leading her to believe he might be in distress.
Police quickly arrived at the unidentified man’s apartment on Empress Avenue to look into the reported disturbance.
After knocking on the door for several minutes, the man, unharmed, eventually opened the door to the perplexed officers.
Deputy chief John Ducker detailed the encounter in a post on the Victoria Police Department’s official blog, Stories Beyond The Beat, stating: ‘When asked about the volume of noise he had been making, the man clarified that he had essentially (in his own unique words) been using the toilet for his morning constitutional, but that he was finished now.’
The officers advised him to keep the noise down during such future activities, to which he assured them he would make an effort.
