Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner - Page 174

Sportster77 · #**3461** (**permalink**) 12-22-2012, 6:01 PM

Yesterday, the Frequency I have tagged as "LEERN Prime" on my Pro-2096 was rocking out with Olivia Newton-John's 'Physical'

awattam · #**3462** (**permalink**) 12-22-2012, 6:08 PM

I should share this with you guys. One day my daughter and I were driving through our town center with the scanner on. The scanner then stopped on our local Wendy's drive thru and we heard one of the staff singing Tomorrow from the movie Annie. Then this same girl started describing her boyfriends `personal' grooming habits in intimate detail. My daughter then 12 years old was crying with laughter. I guess the drive thru staff don't know that whenever they switch the headsets to talk internally, that they still transmit outside the restaurant. Also this particular drive thru seems to have a range of over a mile.

neoengel · #**3463** (**permalink**) 12-23-2012, 12:20 PM

My favourite bit of traffic so far was heard February of this year, it's in my signature :P

WRPS, Cambridge-South Division Feb.15 2012, 0847hrs, responding to a garbage bag that was 'moving'
"Romeo 51Charlie to Constable Gibson, just be aware of a possible zombie apocalypse."

K6ARL · #**3464** (**permalink**) 12-25-2012, 8:33 AM

Disp: "Stand by for the Anoka County Tuesday morning fire test."
*Beep Beep Beep* *Pager tones*
*Song: Shout! The Isley Brothers*
Disp: "Merry Christmas! This concludes the Tuesday morning fire test, time is 8:00"

Merry Christmas de K6ARL

BusRider · #**3465** (**permalink**) 12-30-2012, 12:01 AM

22: "22 to 201."
201: "Go ahead 22."
22: "We have a call from (I forget the name, it's not important) reporting that she has found what she thinks is bear poop, or maybe dog poop in her back yard and she'd like someone to check it out... Priority 3."
201: "Are you serious?"
22: "Unfortunately."
201: *assorted mumbling about how they don't pay him enough*
101 and 102 (and whoever else): *laughter*

That's probably the funniest that I've heard. Not the only funny thing though.

krokus · #**3466** (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 1:38 AM

Just a few minutes ago:
Dispatcher sending a LE unit to a welfare check, "Caller says he sees Jesus, and says this is the last day on Earth."

That makes you wonder what some people see as reality.

quarterwave · #**3467** (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 7:50 AM

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Originally Posted by awattam

I should share this with you guys. One day my daughter and I were driving through our town center with the scanner on. The scanner then stopped on our local Wendy's drive thru and we heard one of the staff singing Tomorrow from the movie Annie. Then this same girl started describing her boyfriends `personal' grooming habits in intimate detail. My daughter then 12 years old was crying with laughter. I guess the drive thru staff don't know that whenever they switch the headsets to talk internally, that they still transmit outside the restaurant. Also this particular drive thru seems to have a range of over a mile.

When we moved our M shop way back when, we had always had the contract to fix the drive through headsets for McD's...about 10 stores. They were on 154.600 and 154.570 then. Our portable tech loved to sing with the radio as he worked. After we moved, we were literally 1000 feet from a McD's.

After he realized they could hear him singing all the time, he tried not to while he was testing them....but would occasionally wait until the drive through was not busy (he could see them out the tech room window) and call the cashier in the drive through, by name (as he had heard them on the intercom channel), and totally freak her out. Now and then he would actually order. They caught on, and eventually would say "Ok Mack, are you walking up to the window or should I take it to counter for you?" and both would laugh. They weren't so amused when he would order a Whopper!

quarterwave · #**3468** (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 7:57 AM

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Originally Posted by K6ARL

Disp: "Stand by for the Anoka County Tuesday morning fire test."
*Beep Beep Beep* *Pager tones*
*Song: Shout! The Isley Brothers*
Disp: "Merry Christmas! This concludes the Tuesday morning fire test, time is 8:00"

Merry Christmas de K6ARL

Our City Fire Dept does a radio test each morning for all trucks / portables...just a check in, the dispatcher calls each on by unit #. The test begins with a tone and announcement of the test.

One day the firemen played a joke on a newer dispatcher. No one answered. The dispatcher kept keying up...."hello, can anyone hear me". "Is this radio working" "Chief 1 can you hear dispatch?" "Oh boy....somethings wrong".

A few minutes into it, the neighboring city...who had been listening...said "We copy your repeater fine over in xxx-city", the local dispatcher said...."ok thanks...I was getting ready to call the radio shop"....the neighbor then said, "you might want to look outside your door".

It seems it was a known local prank....the on duty firemen were outside his door listening he whole time.

QDP2012 · #**3469** (**permalink**) 12-31-2012, 9:56 AM

Conversation heard between officer arriving at the regional jail and his sergeant:

Officer: Sgt, I need some assistance at the jail.
Sgt: You need assistance at the jail?
Officer: Yeah, the keys to my car somehow came off my belt. I need someone to go by the sergeant's office and get another set of keys.
Sgt: Ok.

...time passes...

Officer: Sgt, I found the keys, but still need assistance.
Sgt: You found the keys, but still need me to bring another set?
Officer: Yes sir, I still need assistance. I will be waiting outside in the carport. The prisoner is still inside my vehicle.
Sgt: Ok.

I don't know for sure, but it sounds like the door key got locked inside the car. I wonder if the prisoner could keep a straight-face.

topcop1833 · #**3470** (**permalink**) 01-02-2013, 9:34 AM

local rescue squad was dispatched to a cardiac arrest

dispatch - "units responding to 123 main street for the cardiac arrest, additional notes on the call state the patient is refusing CPR".

medic - "radio, is the patient refusing CPR, or is the caller refusing to provide CPR to the patient?"

dispatcher- "notes state patient is refusing CPR"

medic "lets think this one through radio"

jonesyxvii · #**3471** (**permalink**) 01-02-2013, 9:39 AM

Dispatch: Unit XXXX and YYYY proceed to the intersection of Some Street and Another Road for reports of an indecent act. A male is running around in the middle of the street completely naked.

Unit XXXX: Sorry, dispatch, did you say a naked male?

Dispatch: Well that's what it says here in the notes but it could just be a clever disguise.

quarterwave · #**3472** (**permalink**) 01-02-2013, 6:52 PM

Fresh one...I listen to unicom at the local county airport and the one North of me.

Plane: Nxxxx...Blue County traffic...I'll be passing 1 mile West of the field coming from the North...Blue County Traffic.

Plane: Nxxxx to Blue County unicom...anyone on duty?

Airport: Go ahead for Blue County unicom....

Plane: Nxxxx...is Jenny working today?

Airport: Uh....yeah.

Plane: In that case I need clearance on runway 23....tell her I'm coming in!

bravo14 · #**3473** (**permalink**) 01-04-2013, 10:46 PM

Heard hours ago on ems tac 1 dispatch told the medics 2 people shot 1 was cleaning and servicing the gun and went off hit himself and his buddy medic comes back that's what friends are for.

gr8rcall · #**3474** (**permalink**) 01-05-2013, 8:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bravo14

Heard hours ago on ems tac 1 dispatch told the medics 2 people shot 1 was cleaning and servicing the gun and went off hit himself and his buddy medic comes back that's what friends are for.

How is people getting shot funny? That could be serious!

dosboot · #**3475** (**permalink**) 01-17-2013, 11:09 PM

Just heard this on my local county Dispatch
Dispatch have the office the address
And said the last would like to talk to you about her neighbors vent and tell him to oil it so she can get some sleep.
I mean really why can't we just get along

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quarterwave · #**3476** (**permalink**) 01-18-2013, 3:58 PM

This wasn't funny for the patient, but the EMT was obviously full of himself:

During a report to the hospital on the MED channel, this EMT, in his best sounding 80's radio DJ voice proceeds to give all vitals, then tell the ER they are bringing in a female patient whose internal defibrillator has become external....there is minimal bleeding and maximum pain.

Glad he got a kick out of it, but she didn't, there...Wink Martindale.

Jimru · #**3477** (**permalink**) 01-18-2013, 4:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by quarterwave

This wasn't funny for the patient, but the EMT was obviously full of himself:

During a report to the hospital on the MED channel, this EMT, in his best sounding 80's radio DJ voice proceeds to give all vitals, then tell the ER they are bringing in a female patient whose internal defibrillator has become external....there is minimal bleeding and maximum pain.

Glad he got a kick out of it, but she didn't, there...Wink Martindale.

Some folks should never be allowed near ANY kind of microphone!!

markbart · #**3478** (**permalink**) 02-01-2013, 7:25 PM

8:10 PM today FD dispatched to an address about four blocks away from my house a lady calls the FD and reports that her cat is frozen to her grill.

Mark

quarterwave · #**3479** (**permalink**) 02-02-2013, 8:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markbart

8:10 PM today FD dispatched to an address about four blocks away from my house a lady calls the FD and reports that her cat is frozen to her grill.

Mark

Light the grill...problem solves itself!

quarterwave · #**3480** (**permalink**) 02-02-2013, 8:48 AM

We have some lame dispatchers where I live. They don't understand the radio system. I think this is very important for a dispatcher, but obviously the Sheriff of the county is not concerned. (My point is this leads to very ineffective communication and someone is going to get hurt or not be helped due to this).

The other night (not sure how these 2nd shift deputies keep from just strangling this dispatcher) the lady dispatcher, who likes to claim she cannot hear you on the radio, or you are "broken", can't copy your 49...etc, when she is really busy (too lazy and slow is more like it) so that you have to repeat yourself when SHE is ready, well she kind of got called out.

(Keep in mind this is a large simulcast system. If I can hear a car on the scanner, she can hear them better than me - wireline to the console and a control base for backup in the radio room)

Deputy: County, I have a signal 7.
Disp: Go ahead ( you can hear phones ringing in the background, so it is a little busy)
Deputy: xyz-1234, should be on a Green 92 Chevy, just confirm and tell me if it is valid.
Dispatcher: Stand by
Silence......about 10 minutes
Deputy: County, can I get that 7?
Dispatcher: What 7?
Deputy: The one you gave me to go ahead on 10 minutes ago.
Dispatcher: I didn't copy.
Deputy: Just now or the 7?
Dispatcher: Both
Deputy: Uh...you gave me a go-ahead, a standby and just now answered a question you say you didn't copy....do we need to start over?
Dispatcher: I can't copy your 49...it's broken.
Deputy: Unit XX to Unit XY (Supervisor)...are you getting this?
Suprv: Affirmative, heard all of it, both sides loud and clear.
Deputy: I would like to see you and Unit 2 at the end of shift.
Suprv: Ok, on 2-5 end of shift.
Deputy: Get the Memorex ready.
Suprv: (Chuckles) yep.
Dispatcher: I can't copy either of your 49's, do you have traffic?
Suprv: Don't leave at the end of your shift, need to 17 with you.
Dispatcher: You're clear.
Deputy: Copied that didn't you!
Silence.

I could hear this totally clear...and so did other cars, they were on a simplex channel the console doesn't hear laughing about it.

I didn't hear that dispatcher on air for a week. Now, if they would have only sent her to training for a week, it might have been a good deal, but of course not, we wouldn't want to improve ourselves!