Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

[IC-R20]

Dispatch after a chase of stolen vehicle:
{owner} is requesting information and how to retrieve the vehicle. I told him to get in touch with you.
Officer: (laughing) Oh you can be the bearer (of bad news) and pretty much let them know its totalled.
D: I figured as much but wanted to confirm with you first.

still gotta recover it for insurance, just the tow truck will being doing it now.

 

[zapman987]

still gotta recover it for insurance, just the tow truck will being doing it now.

Actually not 100%. Depending on your insurance policy, some rule out coverage for damage during theft. Saying the thief is responsible and will have to pay (have fun with that...).

 

[IC-R20]

Actually not 100%. Depending on your insurance policy, some rule out coverage for damage during theft. Saying the thief is responsible and will have to pay (have fun with that...).

Nah still gotta get a tow. It just becomes your headache to dispose of at that point.

 

[KC2CQD]

Just heard this one...
Dog control officer reporting back to dispatch.
"This was a disagreement between 2 dogs, both parties advised to stay away from each other...I'm clear."

 

[GB46]

When I was about 11-13 or so, I would make calls to random numbers and sometimes repeating the same numbers. Never usually said anything just hanging up or made a cartoon voice. One time I called one of the "regulars" and said nothing. The man at the other end said..."Let me talk to your mother." I hung up and never called that one again.

Back in the 1960s, when I was in junior high, I used to hang out with a schoolmate who was a recent immigrant from Italy. He would phone people at random, singling out women, tell them he was Mario Lanza, and would sing for them. Some of the women actually believed him due to his heavy Italian accent and strong singing voice. What they seemed to have forgotten was that Lanza had already died in 1959.

My friend was also fond of calling for a cab and not showing up when it arrived. He'd hide somewhere and watch the cab driver's reaction.

Nowadays kids probably play their pranks on the internet, instead.

 

[Randyk4661]

Many years ago a friend I worked with has his own programmable radio and he would mess with security companies.
He had heard that one company had lost a radio. He messed with the owner over the radio telling him he had found it and they should come get it. The owner said he would but he was over an hour away. My friend said he couldn't wait that long and he was going to leave it at a donut shop.
When the owner got there he found the donut shop out of business and of course no radio.
My friend said he heard some choice words over the radio that night.

 

[IC-R20]

Many years ago a friend I worked with has his own programmable radio and he would mess with security companies.
He had heard that one company had lost a radio. He messed with the owner over the radio telling him he had found it and they should come get it. The owner said he would but he was over an hour away. My friend said he couldn't wait that long and he was going to leave it at a donut shop.
When the owner got there he found the donut shop out of business and of course no radio.
My friend said he heard some choice words over the radio that night.

I used to do that too in high school when I lived in Orange County. I'm not too far from vegas now and casino hotels would be even more hilarious but I'm too lazy and preoccupied with other hobbies these days.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

Back in the 1960s, when I was in junior high, I used to hang out with a schoolmate who was a recent immigrant from Italy. He would phone people at random, singling out women, tell them he was Mario Lanza, and would sing for them. Some of the women actually believed him due to his heavy Italian accent and strong singing voice. What they seemed to have forgotten was that Lanza had already died in 1959.

My friend was also fond of calling for a cab and not showing up when it arrived. He'd hide somewhere and watch the cab driver's reaction.

Nowadays kids probably play their pranks on the internet, instead.

Thanks to caller ID, silly pranks like that are pretty much a thing of the past. I never answer my phone since I keep it on silent at all but a few special circumstance so I just get the missed calls and if it's some idiot that leaves a message, I just delete it.

 

[GB46]

Thanks to caller ID, silly pranks like that are pretty much a thing of the past. I never answer my phone since I keep it on silent at all but a few special circumstance so I just get the missed calls and if it's some idiot that leaves a message, I just delete it.

Caller ID is great. I never answer any unexpected calls unless the number is in my contact list. The unwanted calls are usually from toll-free numbers. I once saw a number that I thought was local, due to the area code and exchange, until I noticed that it started with a country code from India. My phone is always silent (including the beep tones on key presses), unless I'm expecting an important call from someone I know.

I'm on our national do-not-call list, too, but that's almost useless. Those scammers and telemarkers must be using it as their "go-ahead-and-call" list

 

[IC-R20]

Caller ID is great. I never answer any unexpected calls unless the number is in my contact list. The unwanted calls are usually from toll-free numbers. I once saw a number that I thought was local, due to the area code and exchange, until I noticed that it started with a country code from India. My phone is always silent (including the beep tones on key presses), unless I'm expecting an important call from someone I know.

I'm on our national do-not-call list, too, but that's almost useless. Those scammers and telemarkers must be using it as their "go-ahead-and-call" list

I don't either but you'd be surprised how many younger people do, specially with caller ID spoofing to change the number to something official looking.

Thing with the Do Not Call is it's for the USA only, most call centers are outsourced to Indian computer sweatshops. I noticed it makes some difference. I don't really use cellular anymore, I have a SIP service for my Cisco phones at home and a softphone app on the phonesmart that lets me dial in from it and you can control almost everything in the service provider settings panel so I had it set to only pass calls from numbers conforming to the North American Numbering Plan which cuts out almost all spam since those are almost always from spoofed and/or VoIP numbers.

Another thing is don't give you main number to businesses since they all sell it to datamining companies for extra money. I have a google voice number set up specifically for that, free and with decent spam filtering though I never monitor it and just occasionally go through the voicemail since there are some legitimate messages for things at times.

 

[GB46]

Thing with the Do Not Call is it's for the USA only, most call centers are outsourced to Indian computer sweatshops.

Canada has its own do-not-call list. Yes, I've encountered lots of East Indian voices in call centres, especially when I was dealing with Bell about our satellite dish contract, and when I contacted Dell about an order I had placed for one of their PDAs. In early 2005 I phoned BC's highways dept. to find out about road conditions in the mountain passes, and whether chains or snow tires were required (I had no internet access at the time). A fellow with a heavy East Indian accent answered, and said he knew those highways, which he claimed to be using frequently. Kind of ironic, actually, but he may have been an Indian immigrant in Canada.

Another thing is don't give you main number to businesses since they all sell it to datamining companies for extra money.

I know, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Unfortunately I once had to contact my ISP just as the pandemic restrictions had started and the offices were off limits. I used my only phone, a cell. Their lines were all busy, but it was on an urgent matter, so I summoned up what patience I had, and waited on hold for -- get this -- 4 hours! It was a toll-free number at a local office, but the air time cost me dearly!

Sometimes there's a long waiting list even in chat mode on a company's website.

 

[IC-R20]

Canada has its own do-not-call list. Yes, I've encountered lots of East Indian voices in call centres, especially when I was dealing with Bell about our satellite dish contract, and when I contacted Dell about an order I had placed for one of their PDAs. In early 2005 I phoned BC's highways dept. to find out about road conditions in the mountain passes, and whether chains or snow tires were required (I had no internet access at the time). A fellow with a heavy East Indian accent answered, and said he knew those highways, which he claimed to be using frequently. Kind of ironic, actually, but he may have been an Indian immigrant in Canada.

I know, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Unfortunately I once had to contact my ISP just as the pandemic restrictions had started and the offices were off limits. I used my only phone, a cell. Their lines were all busy, but it was on an urgent matter, so I summoned up what patience I had, and waited on hold for -- get this -- 4 hours! It was a toll-free number at a local office, but the air time cost me dearly!

Sometimes there's a long waiting list even in chat mode on a company's website.

no it's completely avoidable. your phone can easily run google voice's voip app and it's free.

 

[GB46]

no it's completely avoidable. your phone can easily run google voice's voip app and it's free.

Mine is not a smartphone. It's a simple clam-shell type of cell phone (a so-called "feature phone") with no way of running external apps. My private contacts with which I have an account (doctor's office, pharmacy, etc.) use my phone number for accessing my file.

I've noticed that the number is not to be found in any published phone directory, which is great, even though I never requested that it be unlisted. There used to be an extra charge for unlisting a number, but not in this case.

Of course, I've had to trust Google with my number, as they wouldn't activate my Gmail account without sending me the verification code.

 

[IC-R20]

Mine is not a smartphone. It's a simple clam-shell type of cell phone (a so-called "feature phone") with no way of running external apps. My private contacts with which I have an account (doctor's office, pharmacy, etc.) use my phone number for accessing my file.

I've noticed that the number is not to be found in any published phone directory, which is great, even though I never requested that it be unlisted. There used to be an extra charge for unlisting a number, but not in this case.

Of course, I've had to trust Google with my number, as they wouldn't activate my Gmail account without sending me the verification code.

You can still use it without the app so that's on you for relying on lazy excuses.

 

[GB46]

You can still use it without the app so that's on you for relying on lazy excuses.

They are not excuses, nor am I a lazy person. My original statement was that sometimes sharing my phone number is "unavoidable". I should have written "necessary," because that's what I meant. Even that long wait on hold to speak to my ISP was necessary, because they don't publish their email address. They were using that number as my customer ID and for looking up my account details. Aside from that, the phone number issue is not all that critical, and I'm sorry for bringing it up in the first place and drifting way off topic.

 

[batt14firebuff]

Heard this while listening to LAFD (incident was a rubbish fire):

Engine 64: Rescue 64 from Engine 64 are you able to handle?
Rescue 64: Engine 64 from Rescue 64 we're should be good here, we uh, have a transient attempting to assist us by urinating on the fire.
Engine 64: Roger (with an obvious chuckle)

 

[JeremyG760]

Dispatch: 3 Adam be en route to ### ### the RP is calling reference a large... pig... thats in his front yard.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

I remember coming across a business frequency perhaps a small warehouse type operation. No matter, the owner or manager had a high pitched whiney voice. A couple a guys were chatting over the radio when the boss came on..."I didn't buy those radios for you guys to shoot the sh-t"
Then he comes on again..."Why are you transferring all of those calls up here?! Can't you guys answer the phone an take care of things? Who is calling that you have to transfer calls to me?" One of the guys says..."It's your wife." Silence after that. Perhaps one of the guys called his wife asking her to call him to calm him down and stop crying.

 

[Radio-Man]

Back in the day when the National Weather Service recorded their segments live, the announcer messed up and was obviously very frustrated! He let out a string of curse words which were at the end of his report FOR THE NEXT 6 HOURS!!

 

[Reconrider]

Back in the day when the National Weather Service recorded their segments live, the announcer messed up and was obviously very frustrated! He let out a string of curse words which were at the end of his report FOR THE NEXT 6 HOURS!!

Please tell me you have audio recording of these lmao