Unbelievable things you've heard

[kb2vxa]

It used to be called a welfare check but apparently that caused confusion in certain areas. (;->)

[TypeZero]

This morning, I caught a dispatch for a noise complaint. The kicker? Someone had called in to complain about the music coming from a nearby church.

[RedPenguin]

I'm always amazed when listening to my local buses, how people seem to think they own the buses and they can do what they want.

Here are 3 calls that made me say, WTF!!!

CALL 1:

Driver to Dispatch: Dispatch, are we allowed to transport store shopping carts on the bus?
Dispatch: No

Almost sounds like the driver would be aiding in a theft there. LoL.

CALL 2:

Driver to Dispatch: Dispatch, a guy wants to get on with a 6-shelf bookshelf, that's fully assembled, can I let him ride?
Dispatch: No you can not, it can fall & hit somebody.

CALL 3:

Driver to Dispatch: Dispatch, a guy has a cabinet about the size of a dresser, can I let him ride with it?
Dispatch: No, it can not be secured.
Driver to Dispatch: Dispatch, guy says he can put it in his lap, is that allowable?
Dispatch: No still not acceptable.

I swear any time you listen to an agency that has to deal with the public on a regular basis, all hell seems to break loose.

[rhodester]

A woman called the local pd and reported a man having sex with a dog in the back yard next to her house.Pd arrived and then called in enroute with 1.The next day it was in the local paper he was arrested for having intercourse with his dog.

[freqs]

How about this one .In my city just tonite someone called the police .that the people next door have a scary holloween display .

[mike_s104]

Originally Posted by rhodester

A woman called the local pd and reported a man having sex with a dog in the back yard next to her house.Pd arrived and then called in enroute with 1.The next day it was in the local paper he was arrested for having intercourse with his dog.

Mans' best friend!

1. Someone called 911 for her smoke detector. FD got there and assisted her in changing the battery.

2. Trooper called the dispatcher for trying to find a license that matched the car. For some reason he wasn't sure if it was an "O", "0", or "D". She said "I'll play with it and see what comes up" as she snickered. The Trooper replied "10-4", laughing.

3. Office in a chase: "I need help!! I've 10-50'd!" Dispatcher: "What's your 10-20?" Officer: "I don't know, I'm upside down!" This was about his 3rd wreck in about as many months...he was assigned the SLOW van.

[kb2vxa]

Just a moment ago someone called about "a very stiff garbage bag", you can guess the rest. (;->)

Call the cops, the dog just farted. CALL THE COPS, (WWWAAAAAAAA) CALL THE COPS!

[n9rhy]

We received a call last night from a woman who said that someone told her to call us if she saw a fox. The red 4 legged kind. This is a rural suburban area outside Indianapolis with MANY deer, raccoons, opossum, geese and fox.

[DougWare]

Many years ago, I was an EMT in eastern North Carolina. A certain small town in a neighboring district dispatched their own calls from the police station instead of using the county's 911 communications center.

They had this one dispatcher who was VERY hard of hearing, always telling from several feet away into a microphone. He also had speech impediment.

One afternoon, I heard that district's pagers go off followed by a very loud "GO 10-8, Go 10-8...HOUSE FIRE...HOUSE FIRE...DIRECTIONS BE, YOU CAN SEE IT FROM YOUR BUILDING (station)".

[wolrah]

Originally Posted by TypeZero

This morning, I caught a dispatch for a noise complaint. The kicker? Someone had called in to complain about the music coming from a nearby church.

Churches are noisy places, since they love their bells for some reason. They also have a tendency to start early. Some of us have better things to be doing on Sunday mornings (sleeping, for one) and would prefer if they'd just shut up and keep their noise inside. Churches have been successfully sued for being public nuisances due to how loud they ring their bells or set their fake bells to play, so I can't see how this is surprising.

Unfortunately churches seem to get a lot of leeway that anyone else wouldn't get, so I'll bet there wasn't any response to this.

[joekansas]

I was in my machine shop doing some work last nite and was listening to the scanner whilst I worked.

All of a sudden this county sheriff deputy comes on the air and says he is in the process of chasing down a vehicle out on the highway to stop the occupant. You can hear his siren chirping and wailing in the background.

He comes back on the radio and all excitedly tells the dispatcher that the guy doesn't seem to be slowing down and looks like he is going to have a chase on his hands. I stop doing what I am doing and shut the machine off to listen.

This particular deputy is in a small town, so he lives for pulling vehicles over in hopes of catching a DUI or the likes. That is ALL they live for around here, it seems like. Their favorite is a missing liscense tag light. That is the number one reason for a traffic stop- even in my bigger town.

Anyhow, it sounded like the deputy started out way behind this guy and was trying to catch up to him out on the highway. Once he stated that....."he looks to be slowing and maybe he is pulling over ~ no, he is pulling back out and continuing on...." By now, deputies from other small towns about 10 miles distant are all fired up and they are going to converge on this lawbreaker and get in on the action.

Finally, the original deputy announces that the offender is pullin over....gives the tag number..... then a bit of radio silence.....then the dispatcher comes on with the name of the registered owner~ he is not wanted nor is the vehicle stolen...... Dispatcher inquires if everything is alright..... other officers enroute giving their locations and that they will be on scene in about 3 minutes...... finally another deputy arrives from the opposite direction and they get the guy pulled over.....original deputy comes back on the air and tells everyone to slow down, everything is OK.

Turns out, the reason the cop was chasing the fellow in the first place was that his tail lights were burnt out. The reason the guy didn't pull over was because the cops flashing lights weren't operating and he didn't know it! The siren was working, but the "offender" couldn't hear it til the cop got right up on him after chasing him for a couple of miles. Then, since he couldn't see any flashing lights, the guy thought something was fishy when he at first started to pull over so he thought better of it and pulled back out on the highway and kept traveling- (who knows what kind of wanna-be cop kooks have sirens under the hood!)

So, the rest of the deputies show up (3 more cars) anyway and they run this guy thru the wringer trying to find something bad about him to haul him off or find a reason to give him a ticket for something other than defective tail lights. But, in the end he is let go with a warning to fix the tail lights and the deputy looks like a fool.

Ahhhh, justice prevails.

[kd7ckq]

Awhile back, a dispatcher got her words mixed up talking about a rollover MVA and said the following.
Dispatcher: 'units xxx, xxx, xxx, Recue XX, Engine XX. Please respond to a rollover MVA Hwy xx, Mile post xxx. Victim is trapped and needs to be excommunicated'. Extricated, Excommunicated....I got a good laugh off of that one.
Another time two TAC Team officers where responding to a hostage situation in another district.
Officer 1: XX6...where are you at?
Officer 2: Right behind you.
Officer 1: I thought you left ahead of me?
Officer 2: I did. My GrandMa borrowed my rifle and I had to pick it up.
That was hilarious, I wish I had recorded that one.

[Avery93]

This just happened earlier today: A local PD got dispatched to a MVA with one of the cars trying to leave the scene. A trooper got behind the car and started trying to stop it, but the driver took off. 30 seconds later he advised all the other units "she's going about 10 miles per hour and the car is starting to smoke heavily". 30 seconds after that, "she's driving on the wrong side of the road and the front end is catching on fire". A minute later, "the whole front is engulfed, were passing by the [trooper] post at this time".

At this point, the fire department and an ambulance, not entirely sure of what to do, is standing by in downtown 3 miles up the road. The PD units are just now approaching ahead of the pursuit, and are blocking off the road.

About a minute later the trooper advises the other units "the car is now fully engulfed, still headed down the hill towards Hamilton at 10 mph". Finally, at least 4 minutes after the car caught on fire, the trooper radios that the driver is now bailing out at the bottom of the hill. After the fire department and ambulance arrive, one of the PD units advises he has an "extremely disoriented female", and is enroute to the county jail.

How can somebody stay in a burning car for 5 minutes and not have any injury's??

[j86u]

Thats pretty good, Avery93. A couple of days ago I heard an EMS call for a child with blue rings around his eyes.

[dracer777]

Originally Posted by j86u

Thats pretty good, Avery93. A couple of days ago I heard an EMS call for a child with blue rings around his eyes.

Did they mistake theyre kid for a racoon?

[bob-the-scanner-man]

For about a week the JeffCO sheriff's department kept getting a call at around 3:00am about people wandering around behind a house with flashlights, finally one night the helicopter was out and headed to the area.
HC:"I've got them over here in this field"
Dep:"I'm over here but I don't see them"
HC:"You should be right on top of them."
Dep:"Where?"
HC:"Um.., sorry 44x, those were just horses."

[rkwalker86]

Two years ago, an ambulance was called to the local mall for a person who had fallen. After arriving, the ambulance crew contacted the local hospital to notify them they were headed in with a woman who had slipped on a milkshake and had hurt her ankle. After giving all the patient's information, the EMT concluded with the typical, "Do you have any questions or concerns?". The nurse at the hospital responded, "What flavor was the shake?". You could hear the laughing (on both ends of the conversation) as the EMT responded, "Strawberry".

Last year while visiting Michigan, I heard a law enforcement officer notify his supervisor that he had accidentally discharged his firearm through a picture window.


Two weeks ago, an ambulance was called out to a local business for a woman who had glued her fingers together.

[bob-the-scanner-man]

Got another one, a local FD once got a call about a snake that was "Refusing to leave a residence".

[kb2vxa]

It happens on our waterways too. I just heard a captain radio one of the bridges requesting an opening, the bridge tender asked if he was the one who came through this morning. He replied he was, the tender then told him to lower the outriggers like he did before. Captain Dipstick replies "That was because this morning you couldn't open the bridge." You can see this coming... "If you did it then you can do it now."

That's when the argument started.

[W4KRR]

Heard just a few days ago: A man called the police because he just had a dream that someone came to his house to harm him, and he's now afraid that the dream will come true, and he wants the police to come out and protect him.