{"id":48344,"date":"2013-11-07T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=48344"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:41:24","slug":"cat-blamed-for-999-prank-call-after-police-break-down-door-to-find-empty-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=48344","title":{"rendered":"Cat blamed for 999 prank call after police break down door to find empty flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-on-the-phone-2669339-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48345\" alt=\"Cat-on-the-phone-2669339 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-on-the-phone-2669339-1.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-on-the-phone-2669339-1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-on-the-phone-2669339-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-on-the-phone-2669339-1-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a>When police heard shrieking from within James Cocksedge&#8217;s home following a silent 999 call, they feared the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down the door,\u00a0officers\u00a0were surprised to find nobody inside the London flat &#8211; but soon worked out who was behind the call and the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Police found Bruce,\u00a0a Singapura kitten, hiding inside a wardrobe &#8220;looking naughty&#8221; &#8211; and quite right too, he&#8217;d accidentally made the emergency call by walking over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>But the screaming sound heard by police was a domestic incident&#8230;of sorts. Bruce was having a scrap with Audrey &#8211; Cocksedge&#8217;s other cat.<\/p>\n<p>The first Bruce&#8217;s owner, a 33-year-old sound engineer, knew about the call was when he came home to find his front door off its hinges.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Bruce has something of a fascination with phones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since we had the landline installed Bruce always rushes to answer the phone when it rings&#8221; said James.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s also fascinated by the buttons, which he loves to press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The feisty feline&#8217;s prank call left his owner red faced &#8211; and lumbered with a bill for several hundred pounds for a new door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When police heard shrieking from within James Cocksedge&#8217;s home following a silent 999 call, they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}