Been there. I was on a light rescue, blocking a street with a PD car in the other lane, and an engine was blocking the other side of the flooded area. Someone decided that the three emergency vehicles, with lights activated, were decorations, I guess. She drove around the cop car, in the grass, listing about 20 degrees, and went straight into the swollen creek.Call yesterday,. At least 2 engines & a chief's car on the scene of cars trapped in high water:
Command to dispatch, make that three cars stuck, somebody just drove past us and is stuck.
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Been there. I was on a light rescue, blocking a street with a PD car in the other lane, and an engine was blocking the other side of the flooded area. Someone decided that the three emergency vehicles, with lights activated, were decorations, I guess. She drove around the cop car, in the grass, listing about 20 degrees, and went straight into the swollen creek.
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"And HE shall baptize thee with fire!"One of my favorites was about 20 years ago on my way to work. Phoenix fire dispatched several trucks to a church fire. Yep, you guessed it, some smart @$$ firefighter responded over the radio with "holy smoke!"
So, an MHL would be an Emotionally Disturbed Person, or EDP.
In California, they'd be termed a 5150, from the California penal code. It's also a popular street slang term, at least on the West Coast, thanks to a song or two.
In Arizona, the common radio brevity code is 918.
John
Peoria, AZ
Just about every weekday through the school year I listen to the local school bus "mistress" (calling her a Dispatcher would be over the line) trying to get drivers to take various extracurricular runs. Several of them almost never accept one of these...and one guy always replies by saying, "el pass-o."One I heard on a school bus channel years ago. A driver had to make an extra run to some school at the last minute and didn't want to do it.
Driver: I can't do that run because I have activities.
Dispatcher: You're not on the activities board. Where do you have activities?
Driver: At my house.
Dispatcher: Oh common it will only take 15 to 20 minutes at the most.
I was sitting outside town with my SDS200 plugged into my cigarette lighter and there was a lot going on. About a half hour after I started listening, the dispatcher for the dept for where I was sitting comes on and says, "There's an old guy sitting in a red Challenger at the tracks, with a police radio in his car!". Hmm, I wonder who that could have been, and why someone called on me? The police all know me and my car, and the ones who have been around for a while knew my dogs too. A patrol car passes me and says, "What is he doing? Watching trains?". The dispatcher came back with, "The caller said she sees him there every so often and he seems suspicious!". "Tell her to get a life!" was the officer's response. How an old crippled up guy is "suspicious" I don't know. I guess that's better than years ago when some wannabe cop who lived across the street from where I park used to call about my headlights coming through his windows (Apparently, he couldn't afford or never heard of those newfangled "drape" things), or one of my dogs barking. He couldn't complain about the 50 or so trains blaring their horn, so he had to complain about poor Molly, who admittedly was a mess, and sometimes King yapped too. He was, sad to say, the cause of most if not all of her stress:
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Here they are as young adults with King messing with her. She's licking her lips because she's nervous. It's hard growing up with a brother who is an "Evil Genius" and you're just "average".