Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

[SCPD]

Our local PD just got a call from a Pizza Hut here in Bartlesville- they report that a young man is streaking in their parking lot, and is knocking on the windows. Apparently he did this last night as well and when confronted he told them it was a prank. An officer is en route to Pizza Hut.

2 days ago there was a call that the Phoenix PD was working of FD requesting assistance for a Naked male that broke into the FD dispatch center & was running around.

 

[jwheatley]

I heard this on the Kokomo PD talkgroup on the Howard County, IN TRS last night.

(What is quoted here might not be exact but you will get the idea.)

Dispatch: [Unit #].

Unit #: [Unit #]

Dispatch: Could you be enroute to [address]. We got a call on the desk line from [person's name] and he advies that he is enroute to this location to commit a battery. He says that he's going to be there in about 15 minutes and thought we might want to know about it.

Unit #: Clear, I'm enroute.

 

[Joseph11]

Just heard this a few minutes ago on Ocean County Central Dispatch:

Dispatch: "[Unit Number], be advised, your radio is terrible."

Unit: "How bad?"

Dispatch: "Pathetic."

Unit: "(Unaudible)."

Dispatch: "Some day you'll have to stand on your left foot and hold a lightning rod for it to work."

Unit: "I'll try that next week."

 

[jimyleg]

Elderly lady calls in saying theres a man living in her addic.... Claims she has him on video in her addic. 'He's not there now but bring lots of back up' 'ur goona need lots of backup'

(Copers)> Whats thats suppose to mean. (Other guy) Uhhhhh..... (pause) Lets meet up (some place) and talk abuot this.


There was a guy living there in her addic. He got in through the siding. thought it was prety funny. Happend in minnetonka mn pretty nice subburb.

 

[KC2GVX]

Heard tonight...
DTPD Dispatch: Respond to a house with a woman locked in her room scared of a Bat
Officer: 10-4 I just watched "The Great Outdoors" last week, I think I remember how to catch a bat!

 

[USAPatriot]

Heard moments ago on an LAPD freq:

Dispatcher: "****"
Same voice moments later: "Frequency closed"

:lol:

 

[flyingwolf]

Heard about 20 minutes ago on Clermont county Simulcast (still no digital scanner for me)

Dispatcher states.

[Dispatcher] "Caller advises code 20 JO (domestic violence just occurred), he apparently threw a large book at her (obviously amused) caller advises it was a "communication awareness" book. Advises they are going through a divorce."

There ya go. If she wont listen to you make it sink in by ramming it through her head. Good thinking there buddy.

Ya see its time like this I really want to hear the officers responce.

 

[mikea7531]

Head this last night on the NJ State Police NorthSTAR medevac talkgroup:

REMCS: Northstar, request for standby, Raritan Twp, Hunterdon County, for the male who fell off the back of the truck, this is a standby only at this time.

NorthSTAR: Roger REMCS, Standby for the stolen male.

You just had to hear it :lol:

 

[flyingwolf]

Turnip truck?

 

[mkewman]

How about this from the other night when a Paramedic crew was in a combattive patient's house for 25 minutes:

Dispatch: "42XX Call dispatch"
EMS: "Go Ahead"
Dispatch: "Just checking your status"
EMS: "Well, I'm married, and my partner lives with his girlfriend, but other than that were fine."


Sheesh.

i heard something similiar the other day between a dispatcher and an EMS (who obviously had a thing for each other)

Dispatch: Medic-X - what's your status?
Medic-X: Well, I'm single at the moment, but hopefully when i get back to dispatch that'll change if you're not doing anything tonight.
Dispatch: (giggling) 10-4, 10-8

good times.

 

[countywacker]

One night one of our local fire depts was dispatched for a tractor trailer fliped over that was carying a load of pigs. Once the Fire chief was on scene. (Let me note that he does not like the state police) the dispatcher asked if there was any pigs on the road.

His reply

23-7 to county...... The only pigs I see out here are the ones with red and blue lights on the roof.



Now this chief has a very long list of things he said over the radio in the years.

 

[tspainiv]

I think I have one that tops all

Just heard on Memphis EMS Dispatch a 27 year old male has injured his penis during intercourse... Like I've said time and time again, take it ssslloooowwwww. lol

 

[clbarker]

A little while ago I heard a 2 VSP troopers say this:

1: 16** to 16**
2: Go ahead...
1: You done playin' with my car yet?
2: (Trooper keys up, hear siren and horn going off, that stops and he says) "What are you talking about?"
1: (Chuckling) Never mind.

 

[clbarker]

One day, a local police officer was out on a call and the following occured:

Radio keys up
Lyn-comm: Lyn-comm to 127.
- pause -
Lyn-comm: Lyn-comm to 127.
- still no response -
Lyn-comm: Lyn-comm to 127.
127 keys up again.
Beep Beep Beep
Lyn-comm: Unit possibly requesting immediate back-up. Any unit availble please respond to 127.
Lyn-comm: 127
127: 127 en route.
Lyn-comm: 127, weren't you out at (gives address)?
127: 10-4
322: 127, you just responded to yourself.
__________________________________________
Then the other day there was a Medic unit:

M4: Medic 4 Lyn-comm.
Lyn-comm: Medic 4
M4: Can you give me a phone number for an address?
Lyn-comm: I can try...
M4: Well, I have a name too...
__________________________________________
Unzip the attachment for an audio recording of the next funny event.

 

[jmp883]

Hey Al42,

Forgive me the delay.....I was out of town, in another part of the state, for about a week or so. Because of that I didn't have access to my computer for about the same amount of time. I've got a few questions for you in regard to your reply to my last post here.

1) What is a 555 plugboard?
2) What is a U44BBT?

I don't want to appear stupid or ignorant (although I appear that way just by showing my face outside of my house), but as a dispatcher and radio buff I've never heard of either of those, at least by those names.

You also state in that post that you have several teletype operators. Is that all they do? Just read teletypes and enter/clear NCIC and other messages? That's a nice luxury, but it must be a mind-numbing assignment. The 2 agencies I work for don't utilize dedicated teletype people. The dispatcher(s) on duty just periodically check the printer. If something is found the dispatcher who finds it is responsible to take whatever action is necessary. The majority of teletypes are entering/clearing stolen motor vehicles and entering/clearing missing juveniles.

 

[Al42]

Hey Al42,

Forgive me the delay.....I was out of town, in another part of the state, for about a week or so. Because of that I didn't have access to my computer for about the same amount of time. I've got a few questions for you in regard to your reply to my last post here.

1) What is a 555 plugboard?

Old manual telephone switchboard.

2) What is a U44BBT?

Motorola 450 MHz radio, about 30 watts - tubes, but a solid state power supply.

I don't want to appear stupid or ignorant (although I appear that way just by showing my face outside of my house), but as a dispatcher and radio buff I've never heard of either of those, at least by those names.

Not stupid or ignorant - young.

I'm just showing my age. The U44BBT was state of an old art in the early 60s. The 555 was "current" about 10 years before that - maybe even earlier.

You also state in that post that you have several teletype operators. Is that all they do? Just read teletypes and enter/clear NCIC and other messages?

No, not at all. Most teletype was outgoing, not incoming. Condition (repair) reports to contractors or other bureaus in the department, emergency contidion press releases to the press, etc.

That's a nice luxury, but it must be a mind-numbing assignment. The 2 agencies I work for don't utilize dedicated teletype people. The dispatcher(s) on duty just periodically check the printer. If something is found the dispatcher who finds it is responsible to take whatever action is necessary. The majority of teletypes are entering/clearing stolen motor vehicles and entering/clearing missing juveniles.

We, the dispatchers, were expected to know how to use a teletype machine, including autocall (some of the 28s were set to wake on code), cut and maintain tape and we were expected to get up to and maintain the machine speed which, in the case of press releases, was 100 wpm ...

... while handling the switchboard, 3 (later expanded to 8) radio channels, monitoring about 10 other services, maintaining all sorts of paperwork ... and some of us, who were hams, monitored, and took reports from, a few ham repeaters. (I monitored, and served as the station connected to a land line for, the repeater that was used for communications for the first NYC marathon.)

We were also invaded, every snow storm, by all 3 TV networks, including their complete remote video systems, which took quite a bit of space in pre-satellite days. (Don't anyone ever try to tell me that Pia Lindstom isn't one fine lady.) And slept in the building for days when it was possible that we wouldn't be able to get back for the next shift if we went home.

 

[musicman476]

This morning, two officers were trying to track down a subject who had apparently fled the scene of a nearby MVA. The subject was reported to be wearing only a white thong.
"Keep your eye out for him," one officer said.
"I don't think we'll miss him!" the other officer replied. Talk about an understatement!

 

[drew6553]

heard this on columbus county ADR fire rescue channel for some medical call

1xx to central: ambulance standing by for additional crew member
CC 10-4

1xy to 1xx: i'm in route two out
1xx: rodger dodger we'll be here

 

[jmp883]

Al42,

Thanks for the answers! I've been dispatching for 15 years and it's great talking to someone who's been in it even longer than I have. I'm on the console until 6am EDT tomorrow morning but I'll post a pic of my comm center when I get home.

Thanks again!

 

[Al42]

Al42,

Thanks for the answers! I've been dispatching for 15 years and it's great talking to someone who's been in it even longer than I have.

Well ...

I haven't "been in it" for a while - I left that job at the end of 1978. There have been a lot of changes since then. (The department I worked for doesn't even exist any longer. They're part of NYPD now.)