LONDON – It turns out some people have burningly strange questions that they badly need their local council to answer. Questions about crosswords, super noodles and – in one particularly odd case – random blokes they met in Ibiza.
Britain's Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed 10 of the strangest phone calls received by council call centres over the past year. When reading through the following weird examples, keep in mind that councils usually deal with queries about tax and parking and other fairly mundane stuff like that...
1. Somerset County Council
2. Somerset County Council
3. Nottinghamshire County Council
4. Stevenage Borough Council
5. Poole Borough Council
6. Somerset County Council
7. North East Lincolnshire Council, from a caller with a feather allergy
8. Nottinghamshire County Council
9. Stevenage Borough Council
10. And finally, from an old lady asking for Staffordshire County Council's help with her crossword...
