Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

mlevin

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Earlier this evening a neighborhood PD unit got dispatched for a suspicious package. A few minutes later the officer comes on the radio and says...

"Umm, the 'suspicious package' is just a bag of garbage. Apparently the caller didn't notice the dead banana peal and empty bag of chips."
 

jhooten

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A couple times a year the reserves would relieve the paid officers on all three shifts to let them have time with their families. The favorite was during the Christmas season. One night in particular the sun, moon, and stars were aligned just right for a one of the best quotes of the year to be heard.

It was payday for the local military base where they had just finished a major field training exercise, we were the only city in the area that had "open saloons", and the skip was allowing us to be heard in a city about 100 miles away as well as we could hear each other.

Just be for the midnight shift change a comment was heard from an officer in the other city that went something like this "No wonder they are called whiskey city, in the last four hours they have called for an intoxalizer operator over 20 times".

The four of us on duty that shift were still doing DWI reports three days later.
 

Al42

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The local precinct has been going on a few fireworks calls this evening, all of them for the same general area and all of them being returned as unfounded.

Until one officer called the dispatcher to tell her to put them all, from then on, in his box and mark them unfounded - the FD in that area started its fair this evening, with a fireworks display. (This is an annual event, and there are signs up at just about every intersection for miles around, so it's got to be a total surprise to all the residents who are calling it in. :?: )
 

BaLa

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One officer to another

'After awhile when everything settles down, do you want to stop at the Awful Waffle'
(didn't hear the 'House')

maybe that's just a nickname they use, never heard it before.
 

soopercheeze

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Report of a commercial fire at the Luby's in the local mall.

Engine 7: "Engine 7 on scene. All units responding can return in service. Appears to just be a bird nest in the sign, we can take care of it"

FD Dispatch: "10-4 All units except Engine 7 and 7a, show you in service."

Officer 1: "Looks like Luby's is gonna be having a special on chicken today."

PD Dispatch: "That's just wrong."

Officer 2: "Or boiled eggs!"
 
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Addison FD sent and engine and battalion on a white powder call a few min ago. While that call was going on another call in station 1's district came in and they sent E-102 instead of T-101 for some reason. The following exchange was heard:

E-102: Enroute

Disp: Received

E-102: Is T-101 in service?

Disp: Ummmm......hold on......(5 seconds or so).....I dont know.

No wonder the truck never gets any calls in that city!
 

mlevin

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Heard on Baltimore County FD Main 1 channel.

Dispatcher: {Very loud and long burp} Must've had the headset on VOX

Unknown Unit: What was that?

{Silence.....}
 

jmp883

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Just came over one of the firebuff radio networks:

'rescue just dispatched for the technical rescue for the person with their private parts caught in laundry machine' :shock:

You can't make this stuff up!
 

jmp883

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Of course some of the best things said are said (somewhat) off the air.

Earlier this shift we had a call for the smell of rubber burning in an upstairs bedroom.

Well.....I dispatch the PD unit, my partner dispatches the FD units and while he's still on the air I come out with the following:

"Next time they should try a lubricated condom"

I was at my console, 4-5 feet away from the fire console and it did go over!
 

Jay911

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The other day we had a call from the local zoo to help them recover a very rare and exotic bird that had literally flown the coop. We do animal calls all the time, mainly cats in trees and birds stuck in chimneys and stuff like that. Occasionally it's an animal lover calling in a car with a dog locked inside - understandably, some people get quite concerned over that.

But when we first got the call for the zoo, while the calltaker was still on the line, and all he had sent up was the address (the zoo) and the type of call (animal service call), about three of us threw out our own ideas at what it was:

Rhinoceros stuck in a tree

Lion locked in a cage

Bird inside a building

We're still waiting to see if the zoo calls our boss over the calltaker cracking up on the phone.
 

ajftgov

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Heard over DelCo (PA) PD dispatch:

Call goes out for animal complaint. Officer asks for details. Dispatch replies with location and that there's a dead animal in the road. Officer asks what kind of animal. Dispatch says "a goose". Officer replies unhappily about why they need help moving a goose from the road. Dispatch says, and I quote "It must be the mother of all gooses".
 

bwillcox

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On Carrollton Texas PD just now.... female dispatcher (who is quite good)

"Suspect is driving a blonde BMW... correction a black BMW (giggles) LP xxx-xxx"

Hmmm... didn't know BMW was making blonde cars now????

:lol:

-b-
 

thrace_merin

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I heard this tonight on Shawnee, KS PD
(unit numbers changed)

220: 220 is 10-97 with Animal Control on the Rabid Raccoon
Dispatch: 10-4, do you need another unit
220: Not at this time, who is the 200 supervisor?
260: 260 to 220, what do you need?
220: I need permission to discharge my firearm into the woods, Animal Control wants this raccoon put down.
260: 10-4, permission granted.
220: 220 to dispatch, advise the county and Lenexa that shots will be fired.
Dispatch: 10-4 on shots fired
220: Shots Fired, we have 1 10-40(fatality) raccoon, it will be removed by animal control all units on scene are 10-4
Dispatch: 10-4
260: 260 copys direct, all units 10-4
 
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