Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

[IC-R20]

I found a new frequency for a restaurant and for 30 minutes of so everytime this girl that worked there said they had to do something someone would key up and make a ground sound for 3 seconds. She started getting annoyed and accusing other people there of doing it and telling them to stop. Given the signal strength change it seemed like someone else might've been monitoring too and decided to mess around lmao

That or someone took home a radio and decided to mess around on their off.

 

[IC-R20]

Was listening to a neighboring county's sheriffs department doing surveillance on local drug activity. Lots of casual plain talk between officers. No 10 or signal codes. One officer said " There goes NAME REMOVED. I'm pretty sure she has a warrant ; but I just don't feel like messing with that right now"

There used to be a couple guys where I lived that would always do that. Everytime they got dispatched "lets go to channel 5". Luckily I had a rooftop antenna at the time so could always hear them since I lived on a hill. One time a 90 year old dementia man got loose outside and was naked and they were saying be careful not to hurt him because he's like 100 years old.

 

[Trucker700]

Just heard an American Airlines pilot getting ready to approach DFW airport and something caught my interest.
He was giving the usual aircraft info then when he responded with the ATIS info he said, " we have information something".
My guess is he forgot the last ATIS tag that he heard.
Anyway, that is the first time I have heard that one.
james
AKA: Trucker

 

[IC-R20]

Just heard an American Airlines pilot getting ready to approach DFW airport and something caught my interest.
He was giving the usual aircraft info then when he responded with the ATIS info he said, " we have information something".
My guess is he forgot the last ATIS tag that he heard.
Anyway, that is the first time I have heard that one.
james
AKA: Trucker

Nice. Just wait until you catch someone accidentally giving the preflight announcement over the radio.

 

[IC-R20]

Heard on somebody else’s scanner. I miss when the local industrial gas company used the local trucked system. Lots of funny stuff like this.

 

[mmckenna]

Heard on somebody else’s scanner. I miss when the local industrial gas company used the local trucked system. Lots of funny stuff like this.

Someone needs a nap.

 

[Randyk4661]

Heard on somebody else’s scanner. I miss when the local industrial gas company used the local trucked system. Lots of funny stuff like this.

I was waiting for a third voice to say "You're Fired!"

 

[CrabbyMilton]

The mom and pop businesses can be the funniest too. I remember a tow truck company where the owner was driving one of the trucks and it broke down. So he radios his wife to have someone to come to the intersection of such and such. A little while later he asked what the status was and she asked him how soon did he want the other truck to come. He screams..."Nancy, I'm stuck in the middle of the intersection. Didn't you listen before? "Well do you have his number?" I'm stuck in the middle of the intersection I don't have a phone so I can't call anyone. Gee wiz now I'm really gonna be behind now. Cripes!!!"

 

[IC-R20]

The mom and pop businesses can be the funniest too. I remember a tow truck company where the owner was driving one of the trucks and it broke down. So he radios his wife to have someone to come to the intersection of such and such. A little while later he asked what the status was and she asked him how soon did he want the other truck to come. He screams..."Nancy, I'm stuck in the middle of the intersection. Didn't you listen before? "Well do you have his number?" I'm stuck in the middle of the intersection I don't have a phone so I can't call anyone. Gee wiz now I'm really gonna be behind now. Cripes!!!"

Those and the Taxi companies that have the repeater duplexed so the drivers can talk to each other make for some of the most entertaining listening. I can see why some companies opt not to do that lmao.

 

[Sparky_ND]

My father was a VA. State Trooper after he came back from Korea. I was with him one night when a call came thru for a man chaseing his wife around the house with a brick in his hand. The dispatcher then said that is B-R-I-C-K I repeat B-R-I-C-K.

Those and the Taxi companies that have the repeater duplexed so the drivers can talk to each other make for some of the most entertaining listening. I can see why some companies opt not to do that lmao.

Around here we don't have taxis, we have farmers, and some of them now use frs radios.....

 

[IC-R20]

Around here we don't have taxis, we have farmers, and some of them now use frs radios.....

Yeah it's the new CB after Midland started selling those MicroMobile GMRS rigs at walmart. You can even get 50 watt ones. Marine radios are also super popular for farming ops since every Bass Pro/Cabela has them, I used to hear them all the time around channels 68 to 71 when visiting my grandma in the ole Ozarks. Uniden scanners have marine preprogrammed as a service search and it's quick to sweep all the channels so give it a spin sometime you might find more as well as hunters during the various "in" seasons since the HTs are waterproof and have better range.

 

[K2KOH]

My IC-705 is about 24 hours old. I tried to key up for the first time tonight and no Tx. The other buttons on the mic work, and the speaker on the mic works.

If I press firmly on the 2.5mm plug to push it into the radio, I can Tx, but without pressure on the plug, I cannot.

I purchased it from the wonderful folks at HRO Anaheim yesterday (unfortunately about 45 min away). I’ll need to get up there this weekend. Hopefully it’s the plug and not the jack.

Someone needs a nap.

Nore like he needs a Snickers

 

[Azgunguy]

Az DPS dispatch put out a call for a rabbit on the 202 (i think).

Trooper responds over the radio "ill get that wascally wittle wabbit"

Edit: on christmas eve an ATL was put out for a man doing reverse burglaries. It was quite funny.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

One from our county transit bus system decades ago. A transit supervisor was complaining that his work car was dirty even though he claimed he had it washed before he parked it(indoors) the last shift and nobody else was using it. To paraphrase: The city must come down here with their street sweepers and shake the dust off on our cars because I can't figure out how this car got so dirty just after I washed it.

 

[kb4mdz]

The mom and pop businesses can be the funniest too. I remember a tow truck company where the owner was driving one of the trucks and it broke down. So he radios his wife to have someone to come to the intersection of such and such. A little while later he asked what the status was and she asked him how soon did he want the other truck to come. He screams..."Nancy, I'm stuck in the middle of the intersection. Didn't you listen before? "Well do you have his number?" I'm stuck in the middle of the intersection I don't have a phone so I can't call anyone. Gee wiz now I'm really gonna be behind now. Cripes!!!"

A couple of ages ago I worked at a small Mom & Pop two-way shop in Raleigh; their main shop was in Durham. The founding owner Pop had long since stopped doing tech work and just drove a van between the 2 shops delivering stuff. One fine sunny day he left the Raleigh shop to go back to Durham, and about 25 minutes later he called out on the radio that he'd had an accident on Hillsboro Str. in Raleigh.

Now, there is no way that Hillsboro St. is a 'normal' route between those 2 shops; it's at least a 20 or 30 minute detour, to go into downtown Raleigh, down Hillsboro past NC State U, and then back out and over to Durham.

See, Pops really liked looking at the college girls walking on Hillsboro St, and musta got distracted by them & rear-ended someone's car on the street. All the techs knew how much Pop loved looking at the girls!! :-D

Yeah, accident on Hillsboro st, Busted!

 

[kb4mdz]

Those and the Taxi companies that have the repeater duplexed so the drivers can talk to each other make for some of the most entertaining listening. I can see why some companies opt not to do that lmao.

From a cab company local to Raleigh, years & years ago:

Dispatcher (after too much aggro):

"Cab #XX - I want you to ______ my _________"

Fill in your own words.

 

[KK4JUG]

A couple of ages ago I worked at a small Mom & Pop two-way shop in Raleigh; their main shop was in Durham. The founding owner Pop had long since stopped doing tech work and just drove a van between the 2 shops delivering stuff. One fine sunny day he left the Raleigh shop to go back to Durham, and about 25 minutes later he called out on the radio that he'd had an accident on Hillsboro Str. in Raleigh.

Now, there is no way that Hillsboro St. is a 'normal' route between those 2 shops; it's at least a 20 or 30 minute detour, to go into downtown Raleigh, down Hillsboro past NC State U, and then back out and over to Durham.

See, Pops really liked looking at the college girls walking on Hillsboro St, and musta got distracted by them & rear-ended someone's car on the street. All the techs knew how much Pop loved looking at the girls!! :-D

Yeah, accident on Hillsboro st, Busted!

Okay, so what's the problem?

 

[drclaws]

On Fire and EMS Dispatch...

"All units recall, smoke detector was hit by a bean bag."

 

[KC3ECJ]

Dispatcher: Caller from the store says the guy is hiding in the parking lot. Say he stole 3 Milwaukee power tools.
Police: 10-4! We'll play hide and seek!

 

[IC-R20]

Dispatcher: Caller from the store says the guy is hiding in the parking lot. Say he stole 3 Milwaukee power tools.
Police: 10-4! We'll play hide and seek!

Loser gets a billy club party!