Woman addicted to hoax calls to the police

[mondo joe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7269312.stm

Thelma Dennis, 50, from Mountain Ash, Cynon Valley, has been prosecuted 60 times, Cardiff Crown Court heard. She agreed to electrode therapy which left her screaming in pain every time she dialled the third "9" of 999.

But the court heard that it failed and she rang police claiming a bomb had been planted in her local supermarket.

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The judge told Dennis he was not sending her to prison again because she had gone four years without reoffending. But he warned her that if she returned to court again, there would be no choice but to jail her.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Electrode therapy?

Clockwork Orange meets The Sun.

This is a gag, isn't it?

--p!

[mondo joe]

2. That's what seemed so bizarre to me. And sort of peculiarly....British.

I was a little mortified, but then also wondered if it wasn't a better attempt at a solution than tossing her in jail which is what I suspect the US solution would have been.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. SSRIs work a lot better with obsessive-compulsive problems

Even putting a block on her ability to dial 999 would have been a better solution.

--p!

[mondo joe]

4. Yes - they would have been.

:-)

[Doctor Cynic]

5. What if there was a genuine emergency at the house? n/t