Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

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"(Chief's UID) to (Department) fire monitors...all Department officers are directed to report to Station 2 for detail at 20:00 hours."

IYKYK...the Department only had one station, and "Station 2" was a bar in town.
 

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OSHP 1765: "1765 - 709, 1526, do either of you need anything before I go 1-25 (out of service, going home)?"

1526: "If you could change the weather, that would be nice."

1765: "Negative. 1765 - Cambridge, I'm 1-25."

Cambridge: "1765. And 709 doesn't need anything."

1765: "Okay."
 

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Thinking back a little bit to something not so much "funny or odd" as a comspec who really loved his work and put some real thought into it, but it made for some pretty entertaining listening...first example, he would respond to incoming calls with exactly the same delivery as they came in so you definitely knew which call he was answering, even if for example the incoming sounded like a unit trying to remember his number:

Trooper: "3Geeeeeeeee4-2 Schoharie."
Comspec: "Schoharie's on, 3Geeeeeeeee4-2."

Second example, he realized two communities (Cobleskill and Conesville) could sound very similar over the air, so he drew out the name for one:

"Schoharie County 911 to all Cobleskill fire monitors..."
versus
"Schoharie County 911 to all COANZZZZZ-villllle fire monitors..."

The county got more than its fair share of SHTF moments, and this guy was always in control, but still in a quite entertaining way.
 

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Yesterday afternoon on the county sheriff's channel. Heard the county coroner and the local PA DCNR ranger talking back and forth about something. Turns out the ranger was apparently following some kind of animal "walking stubbornly down the road" as he put it, and the coroner was bringing grain, hay, and a lead rope, I'm guessing in an attempt to catch it.
 
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