Avon and Somerset Police is doing a 24 hour live 'tweetathon ' online today . They are recording a variety of the reports they receive on a daily basis . It 's in a bid to highlight how the emergency call system is often misused . Some of bizarre calls taken today include a man asking for football scores . A woman reported seeing aliens in living room and another found a melon . 999 man called One to say 'Vodafone was robbing him ' as he had no signal . They have taken 1,800 calls so far today and will be tweeting until midnight .
Avon and Somerset Police is doing a 24 hour live 'tweetathon ' online today . They are recording a variety of the reports they receive on a daily basis . It 's in a bid to highlight how the emergency call system is often misused . Some of bizarre calls taken today include a man asking for football scores . A woman reported seeing aliens in living room and another found a melon . One man called 999 to say 'Vodafone was robbing him ' as he had no signal . They have taken 1,800 calls so far today and will be tweeting until midnight .