A while ago (in The Saint's West London region) I called an ambulance for a man who was having trouble getting along (sat on ground, staggered along a bit then sat again, then lay down). This happened outside my house. I investigated and he had a lot of symptoms of being drunk, but I couldn't smell any drink on him and he didn't have the "normal" appearence of a regular drunk (i.e he was reasonably clean and well dressed). He was concious, but unable to say anything that made sense. In the end I decided to call because I thought he may a low blood sugar diabetic (also he had broken glasses which may have indicated he had fallen and had a head injury). I made it quite clear that he was concious and breathing. A few minutes later a first response car arrived and a few minutes later an ambulance arrived saying that they had rushed from the other side of ealing as it was given to them as a top priority (I can't remember exactly - red something- but the driver said it meant the patient was dead, or thereabouts). As it turned out the first reponse bloke searched him and found a half bottle of vodka tucked in his jacket and managed to get a response that it wasn't the first (hence no smell of alchohol). I wonder a) was there something I should have done to avoid calling 999 (I didn't feel it was right to search him for hidden bottles!)? and b) how on earth did my call to the ambulance control turn into an emergency dash across the borough? Get well soon !!!