An elderly woman in Scotland called the coastguards last month, but she made a mistake. The lady was watching a film on television and saw swimmers in distress. She mixed up drama with real life and called the coastguard.
A Royal Navy helicopter, a lifeboat and a team of coastguards were sent to hunt for the "missing" swimmers. The lady didn't give her name. She was calling from Ayr, southwest Scotland.
But officials realized soon afterwards that the woman imagined scenes from a film were real. The lady had been watching the 2003 film Open Water. The film shows a couple being attacked by sharks while scuba diving.
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"She was watching a program on TV and she phoned 999 (the emergency number in Britain) and asked for the coastguard," a local coastguard spokesman said.
"We could hear the screams in the background. She just thought it was a real incident happening in front of her."
He added: "You can't charge her with hoax calls, you just feel sorry for her."(STAFF WRITER WITH AFP)
蘇格蘭一位老太太上個月打電話給海巡隊,但是她搞了一場烏龍。這位女士在電視上看到電影中的泳客遇險,她混淆了現實生活和電影,打電話到海巡隊報案。
一架皇家海軍直昇機、一艘救生艇和一組海巡隊員受派到海中去搜尋「失蹤的泳客」。這位從英國西南部艾爾郡打電話報案的女士沒有留下她的姓名。
但是海巡隊很快就發現這位女士把電影中的情節想像成真實事件了。這位女士看的電影是二OO三年的「顫慄汪洋」,片中描述一對情侶在潛水時被鯊魚攻擊。
「她在電視上看到這個影片,就撥了999(英國緊急事故專線)請海巡隊派人前往救援,」當地海巡隊發言人表示。
「我們可以聽到電話那頭傳來背景的尖叫聲,她以為那是在她面前發生的一幕真實事件。」
他補充說道:「你沒辦法控訴她報假案,你只會覺得她很可憐。」(法新社�翻譯:袁星塵)
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