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A member of the public in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, called emergency services to report people lying on the floor

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Making a false report is only a bad thing if they did it maliciously. I'm assuming they did it out of naivety rather than out of malice. In the UK the police are less inclined to kill people for no reason (of course, it does happen but it's way less likely).