--- title: Woman Calls 999 Because of Not Enough Sprinkles on Ice Cream description: A woman called 999 because there were not enough sprinkles on her ice cream. canonical: https://time.com/2819288/woman-calls-police-because-not-enough-sprinkles-on-ice-cream/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-03T19:11:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:19.973Z og:title: Woman Calls Police Because There Aren't Enough Sprinkles on Her Ice Cream og:description: It's officially summer. og:url: https://time.com/2819288/woman-calls-police-because-not-enough-sprinkles-on-ice-cream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Calls Police Because There Aren't Enough Sprinkles on Her Ice Cream twitter:description: It's officially summer. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Woman Calls Police Because There Aren't Enough Sprinkles on Her Ice Cream  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 3, 2014 7:11 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 3, 2014 7:11 PM UTC The [West Midlands Police](http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/latest-news/news.aspx?id=986) in England have released a clip of a woman who called their emergency line 999 to complain about getting an ice cream that did not have enough sprinkles on it. She complains that an ice cream man has “put a bit on one side and none on the other.” Police in general have been releasing recordings of the most bizarre, blatantly not urgent, phone calls to shed light on the people who are jamming emergency lines — between one about [a prostitute not being attractive](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/listen-woman-dials-999-complain-3641391) enough and a rant about [undercooked waffles](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/25/florida-woman-calls-911-because-of-raw-waffles/). Woman Calls 999 Because of Not Enough Sprinkles on Ice Cream ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2819288/woman-calls-police-because-not-enough-sprinkles-on-ice-cream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2819288/woman-calls-police-because-not-enough-sprinkles-on-ice-cream/"},"headline":"Woman Calls Police Because There Aren't Enough Sprinkles on Her Ice Cream","datePublished":"2014-06-03T19:11:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:19.973Z","description":"It's officially summer","url":"https://time.com/2819288/woman-calls-police-because-not-enough-sprinkles-on-ice-cream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2819288/woman-calls-police-because-not-enough-sprinkles-on-ice-cream/","name":"Woman Calls Police Because There Aren't Enough Sprinkles on Her Ice Cream"}}]}] ```