LOL
Back in 2005, a colleague of mine lived on the edge of KCOM monopoly in a place called Brough.
BT came round one day, and dug half the street up. They stopped just before they got to his house. He went outside and pleaded with the blokes, but they wouldn't go any further.
Anyway, quite often this fellow would find that when he picked the phone up, instead of a dial tone he'd get a recording saying "sorry, all lines are busy".
One evening at 8pm for the craic, he picked up the phone and dialled 999. He got a recording saying "sorry, all lines are busy". A friend who knows about these things said that shouldn't have happened since the 1950s.