Quirky World ... Dog out of reach from the long arm of the law

England: Help was not just a phone call away for one Lancastrian woman who mistakenly phoned police on the other side of the Atlantic to complain about a dog outside her home.

Quirky World ... Dog out of reach from the long arm of the law

The unnamed woman from Lancaster could face a hefty phone bill after Lancaster City Police in Pennsylvania in the United States received a call from a woman with a “strong English accent” reporting that the dog was on her porch and in her yard and that she needed assistance.

Knowing something was not quite right, the department’s Sgt Schaeffer, who took the call, asked the woman to confirm her address, and she replied “Lancashire, England” — seemingly unaware that the officer she was speaking to was nearly 5,000km away.

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