'999? I've been kidnapped! I'm blindfolded! Trapped! No. Wait...it's just the duvet…Sorry'

A woman rang 999 in a panic, thinking she had been kidnapped - turns out, she'd just woken up under her duvet.

The mystery caller rang 999 and whispered as she told the operator: "I can’t see anything, I think I’ve been kidnapped. I’m wearing a blindfold…

Operator: "Are you moving?"

Caller: "No I’m lying still. Wait, I’m trapped."

Operator: "Are you ok? Can you sit up?"

Caller: "Oh, yes, hold on a minute. It’s just my duvet. I woke up with it covering my head and thought someone had done something to me."

The conversation has been printed in new book 'Help, I'm Trapped In The Duvet!' by Howard Lester, - serialised by the Daily Express newspaper - and features a number of other bizarre 999 calls.

On one occasion a caller rang claiming a boiler engineer had "stolen heat" from him because his radiator didn't work and another person called 999 because she found a dead pigeon in her garden and wanted paramedics to come and resuscitate it.