The operator asked in a rather confused and astonished voice, “Wait, what you’re saying is, you went to someone else’s yard and harvested their daffodils, am I right?”

“Yes!” Lady Wilson blurted loudly, “He planted daffodils on his fences, and I thought they were chives, so I cut a few handfuls and ate it, but then got poisoned. Tell me, he committed a crime, didn’t he?”

The operator sighed and explained, “I’m sorry, Ma’am, our law does not prohibit any citizen from planting daffodils in their yard, so it is absolutely fine for him to do so. The point is, why did you go to someone else’s yard and take their daffodils simply because you assumed they were chives? You could be arrested for trespassing and stealing.”

“What the hell?!” Lady Wilson shouted into the phone, agitated and furious, “I am lying in the hospital right now because of food poisoning, and yet I’m the one being charged?!”

The operator asked sternly, “If someone comes to your house, steals your car, and then dies in