Unbelievable things you've heard

[mishscanner]

Ok, i had to start this thread because of what I just heard on the scanner.

A complainant in South Bend, IN just called in to the local South Bend Police department claiming she wanted an officer to come out to her residence. Her complaint was she was just ripped off by someone while she was trying to purchase crack. LOL, if they catch this guy maybe they will both meet up in jail.

Now your turn, what's the craziest thing you've heard.

[davidbond21]

I heard a couple of months ago, a dispatcher talking to an officer trying to get him up to speed for a "theft call", the dispatcher said that the caller was complaining that someone had broken into his house and stolen his stash of weed, with the caller going on to describe how he used to keep the weed in his van outside, but it kept being broken into(and his drugs stolen repeatedly), and so he made a new hiding spot to store everything in a closet in his bedroom, and now that was broken into and he suspects he may know who the perpetrator is and he wants an officer to make his location to file a report.

The cherry on top of all this? The dispatcher after saying all that to the officer, followed up with "Be advised, the caller sounds high."

[kb5udf]

The most outrageous things I've heard on the air:

1. A sheriff deputy was afraid to arrest a suspect for beating his gf because the suspect's father was a major contributor to the Sheriff. When the deputy called his supervisor and described the problem, the supervisor stammered quite a bit, and told the deputy he felt sorry for him. The deputy asked if he was supposed to arrest the suspect and the supervisor told him, I don't know.

2. Two police detectives were talking and one was bragging about how good of a quick change artist he was. In particular the detective bragged about ripping off a cashier at a fast-food hamburger chain.

3. After listening to a chase involving about 4 different agencies/jurisdictions for about 2 hours, I called my sister who was a local TV anchorwoman, to try to give her a scoop. All agencies denied the chase ever happened to my sister the TV person.

[Tommahawk]

Hmmm... I didn't hear this one, I actually received this call and dispatched it.

A local influential doctor in one of the local "Snob Hill" Communities called in and requested the police department respond to his residence because he had a woodpecker in his tree doing what a woodpecker does... Pecking on a tree....

Since our local PSAP dispatches for over 40 police departments, 80+ fire departments, and 30+ EMS agencies, the decision not to respond is not a option for us. Policy dictates we must give the call to the appropriate agency.

So I gave the officer the information, including phone number and told him that the caller insisted that the police department come out and take care of the woodpecker.

Well apparently two or more individuals heard the information being given out on the scanner and called this Doctor up started harassing him. (This was before Caller ID). Anyway long story short the Doctor wanted to file a complaint because I gave his information out over the air and also did not understand why the police officer did not get rid of the woodpecker...........

Oh yeah... In these parts of the Country we also rescue sheep from mud-pits and ducks from drains..........

[jjudson]

I heard two in the past week:

One call was for a woman who complained that someone had stolen her toilet brush.

The second call was for a woman sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of an intersection in her underwear, screaming at a man on the sidewalk who was wearing "half a mullet." There was a long pause after the dispatcher relayed this, followed by the officer responding: "Ohhhh-kayyyyy."

[zz0468]

Weirdest thing...

A kidnapping victim, taken to sea in his own boat called mayday on marine Ch 16, then for the next several hours pleaded with the coast guard to find him as he had a shootout with his kidnappers. The last transmission heard, he said he had been hit.

We thought sure the whole thing was a hoax, but he was found dead, adrift in his boat the next day.

[Citywide173]

I dispatched for a very affluent town's police department from 1987-1990. I remember a night that we were on generator power for the whole night due to a microburst that went through the center of town. About 3AM I got a call from a local bank president complaining that he had no power. I explained to him that pretty much the whole town was without power, and that the power company was working on it. He then told me that his neighbor had power, and I responded that I wasn't sure how that was, but maybe his neighbor was on a different power trunk, as they both lived close to the town line. He then stated that his neighbor had a generator. I responded "then that would be why he has power". This was followed by him demanding that I send a car to his neighbor's house to order the generator shut off, because "If I can't have any power, then nobody should be allowed to have power!" I told the gentleman to have a good night and hung up on him. I then called the Sergeant and told him what happened, and he agreed that I handled the guy appropriately.

One of my current partners on the ambulance has responded to two calls thath fall into this thread.

1. Ambulance response for an itchy cast

2. Ambulance response for dandruff

I have more, but they definitely aren't appropriate for a G rated board. I can't count the number of times the statement that "you can't make this stuff up" has come out of my mouth in 25 years in some form of public safety.

[kayn1n32008]

Back in about 1994/5, after seeing a RCMP crusier going code-3 at about mach 1, and not chasing anyone, i turned on my radio and listened to the first officer involed shooting to happen in the town i grew up in. its too bad the officer was all pumped on adrenalin when he shot the suspect(total loser) as the round hit the suspect in the thigh and he survived. (society would have benifited by this loser not surviving) this happened during the intermission between shows at a drive in, and i just happened to have a radio with me, and the friends i was with that night were shocked as we all knew who the suspect was. good times with a radio.

[kc2rgw]

Dispatch "units respond for a domestic disturbance...still getting information caller is hysterical"

units, the disturbance is a woman's son is tearing up the house and breaking furniture

10-4...

units, be advised her son is 10yrs old

10?

affirmative 10yrs old, I could hear him growling in the background during the call.

[milf]

This fits in the OOOOKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY category

About 1992ish
Rural Southwest MS
A local VFD tones out: "X EOC to Y Volunteers, I need you to respond to unknown trouble at XYZ such and such road, stage for SO."
The units call 10-17 (en route for them then.)
A second later the SO call...
X SO, X21, X 32, need you to J1 to XYZ such and such off of so and so. Unknown trouble call. Use extreme caution as background sounds of a struggle. X21, J1 from XYZ... X32, J1 from Highway XX...
About ten minutes later VFD staged about quarter mile away, and the SO deputies arrived and did entry...
To find-
I kid you not... An 8 point buck had B&E'd and was trashing the place, and had kicked the phone over and stomped the -911 speed dial....

Shortly after wards heard one of the deputies talking to the supervisor about handling it,... Was told to 10-07 the "perp"... Heard 10-04.. then BANG.... F&W was called and then they removed the deer, and the rest is history...

[jrholm]

It always seems to be the more affluent areas that call in with B.S.

Had one in a very nice neighborhood. A lady called in at 0500 hrs and demmanded the city street sweeper be arrested for disturbing her sleep

[kc2rgw]

Originally Posted by jrholm

It always seems to be the more affluent areas that call in with B.S.

Had one in a very nice neighborhood. A lady called in at 0500 hrs and demmanded the city street sweeper be arrested for disturbing her sleep

Having got back into active monitoring recently after probably a ten year break...it is incredible what the police have to put up with around here compared to back then.

They are a nanny service in this town now. People getting into arguments with store clerks, call the police. Boyfriend/girlfriend arguments in the middle of stores....call the police. People act like animals and the police are tied up all day doing cleanup for a bunch of misbehaving children.

Things have really changed in my area....not 'real' crime luckily but the residents are just lousy human beings. I would not want to be a cop here.

[DDan]

I can think of a few strange calls. Once I heard a call for the FD where a woman who had been pleasuring herself lost her self stimulating device in her body and needed help in removing it. I can't imagine how they helped her. I paraphrased that so that it is sort of acceptable for general viewing.

The other one that I distinctly remember is the guy who tried to commit suicide with a spear gun. He failed in the attempt but managed to somehow tack his face to the wall. The FD had to call for another truck with a special saw on board. I assume they wanted to cut the section of wall out so that the hospital could remove the spear from his face.

[milf]

LOL, Dan,` as a Volee FF/EMT, we had some.. ummm... Interesting "objects in cavity" calls.... I won't detail any on the forums....Just lets say... You would laugh till you peed your pants at some of the things that happen.

[hfxChris]

Command: Dispatch, we're on scene, we have a fully involved vehicle, and two security officers

Dispatch: Did you say the security guards are fully involved?

...you can put whatever meaning on that you want

[Hooligan]

1. Birmingham, Michigan, early 1980s: Little old lady calls police to report a man with Detroit Edison ID, wearing a Detroit Edison uniform, and driving a Detroit Edison truck knocking on her door. Dispatcher asked her what the problem was, and she said she thought it could be the perfect disguise for a robber.

2. Hearing a police officer dispatched to my home address, to contact me & ask me to contact another PD "reference his brother's death" (I called the local PD & told them they could cancel -- I had a scanner).

3. San Mateo California, October 31 a few years ago: Chinese woman calls police to complain about people dressed up in costumes harassing her by knocking on her door.

4. On a fairly frequent basis, I hear FD & EMS units dispatched to an assault victim, drunk/passed-out person, etc. just outside of the Emergency Room of a local hospital.

5. 1982 or so: Hearing a phone patch via UHF military SATCOM between a husband at McMurdo Station, Antarctica & his wife in Southern California during which she asked him to sit down, then told him she was pregnant. I was too young/naieve at the time to think that the husband might have been there in Antarctica for at least the past 9 months.

6. Of course, plenty of totally insane & depraved things on cordless & cellular phones.

[Skypilot007]

One of the strangest things I've heard was one late night about 2 years ago an officer in my town got out of his car for some reason at an intersection. Something laying in the road perhaps. The next thing you know the officer is getting run over by his own car and screaming for help over the radio. He ended up with a broken ankle. I have it recorded also.

Another time about 20 years ago an officer here chases a women that was driving the wrong way down a street. The chase is completly crazy from start to finish. She runs the officer for about 40 miles, ends up going onto the NJ Turnpike in the wrong direction, getting into a head on crash and dies. The other motorist survived. They don't chase cars like that around here any more if at all.

[qlajlu]

This doesn't measure up to the other stories already told here, but at the time it struck a funny bone and even got a write up in the paper. It was during particularly heavy snow storm that happened during the evening commute one brutal winter and a harried local PD officer called dispatch on the radio asking her if she would see if the streets department could do something about the snow. Her nonchalant reply was, "I don't think they can do anything about the snow, but they are working as hard as they can to get it off the streets."

[PoliceChaser]

Skypilot007 can you send me the audio file

[ampulman]

Two quickies:

EMS were called to the offices of a local cardiology group for a medical emergency (Chest pains). Local township public works -- dispatch: What's Joe doing? Answer: He's playing with himself. Dispatch: What else is he doing?

Amp