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Greater Manchester Police received the emergency call just after the final whistle, when United were knocked out of the Capital One Cup by Sunderland, who won 2-1 on penalties after extra time.
The supporter, who was said to be “in a drunken state”, demanded to speak to the Red Devils’ former boss to discuss the result, police confirmed.
In an audio file, the caller can be heard asking: “Could I speak to Sir Alex Ferguson please?” The 999 call handler replies: “Not by a 999 line, I’m afraid. No.”
Thc caller continues: “Er... Sir Alex... The result is all wrong. They had extra time and it was a total and utter load of rubbish.” The call handler responds by asking does the caller want to report a crime, to which he replies: “Yeah, a crime. Yeah, I’ll report a crime....The crime is that Manchester United, Manchester United were absolutely knackered.”
Cannibal rats floating towards Ireland
There are fears a ghost ship full of diseased cannibal rats could be about to crash into the coast of Devon or Cornwall, or even Ireland.
The abandoned Lyubov Orlova has been missing since it cut adrift while being towed from Canada nearly a year ago.
Coastguards fear the liner has been driven across the Atlantic by high winds and is now close to the UK shore. Based on emergency beacons activated last year, it is feared the Yugoslavian liner registered to Russia could now crash into the shore of Devon, Cornwall, Ireland, or Scotland. Those searching for the ship say there are likely to be thousands of disease-ridden rats on board with no source of food except each other.
Conker trees are under threat because of an alien invader that is winning an insect war in England.
In the past 10 years, the horse chestnut leaf-mining moth has spread from London into almost the whole of England and Wales.
The moth, which arrived from the continent in 2002, burrows through the leaves of conker trees, causing them to turn brown, shrivel, and fall early. Experts had hoped the tiny parasitic wasps that lay eggs in the moth caterpillars would act as pest controllers.
Clearing fallen leaves from Horse Chestnut trees is an effective method of limiting the impact of the Cameraria moth pic.twitter.com/IXZl7uNkwY
— Paul Melarange (@think_trees) October 3, 2013
A Philadelphia woman has given birth to a girl on a sledge after a snowstorm.
Shirley Kim Bonanni said her contractions were too strong for her to walk. Her husband Fabian couldn’t drive up their steep, hilly street, so Fabian Bonanni put his wife in their toddler’s plastic sledge and was pulling her to the car.
But the baby wouldn’t wait and with the help of neighbours and a 911 dispatcher talking Fabian through it, 7lb 9oz Bella was born on the roadside. Mother and baby are doing fine.
It is windy in Wyoming, but drivers got a shock when a road sign warned them to expect gusts of 355m/ph (570km/h) and more.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation says a sign operator meant to type “35+”.
The electronic message was posted for 17 minutes before the department noticed the mistake and corrected it.
When Janna Holm’s grandmother died 18 years ago, she left her grandchildren with a puzzle — index cards filled with random, indecipherable sequences of letters. Thanks to the internet, the code has been cracked.
In the weeks before Dorothy Holm died after she had lost her ability to speak, she was writing out prayers. Janna Holm, of Minneapolis, posted one of the cards on MetaFilter. com to see if anyone could solve the mystery. One user deduced that each letter on the back of the card represented a word in the Lord’s Prayer.
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