内容摘要：Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

That’s the message from the Welsh Ambulance Service in a plea to get people to stop phoning with non-emergencies.With public health services stretched thin in the U.K., there is no shortage of anecdotes about people suffering from true health emergencies who wait hours for medical care — whether from paramedics or a hospital doctor. But the ambulance service said 15% of its 426,000 calls last year — 175 a day — were not urgent. Some weren’t even health-related and were far from being matters of life and death.

There was a call about a chipped tooth (“it’s starting to throb”), a bloody toe (“I’ve cut my little nail on the toe and I’ve nipped across the top of it.”) and a person who stuck their finger in an electrical socket who appeared to be fine (“I’m worried that I could be electrocuted”).Then there was the call Emma Worrall took last year that she won’t soon forget.“I remember saying ‘alligator?’ and my call-taker supervisor just looked at me and was like, ‘What is going on in your call?’” Worrall said.

As a dispatcher in a busy call center in Wales, Worrall has to be unflappable, patient and able to efficiently handle the most stressful calls in which a delay of seconds or minutes could be the difference between life and death.She understands that some people have a different gauge of what is life-threatening and an emergency. But it’s still frustrating when someone phones the emergency number to say they’re locked out of their house and cold or their dog jumped in a river and won’t swim back — calls she also fielded.

“We just ask everybody to find alternative pathways before phoning for an ambulance,” she said. “The ambulance service is for those who are experiencing life-threatening problems.”

Worrall’s craziest call came one afternoon when a man phoned to say his son’s pet alligator had escaped and was hiding under the sofa.will be announced tonight at the NFL Honors.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Before the Kansas City Chiefs made it to theirberth, one player took to coaching a puppy for a different big game.

and his girlfriend, Nani Hinton, visited The Humane Society of Greater Kansas City in October to coach Parsnip, a 4-month-old mutt, to make his debut at Puppy Bowl XXI.“I’m his coach. I am putting him through rigorous training,” Nnadi said at the time. “It’s a process, it’s a young kid, a lot of raw potential, but he’s going to be a star.”