Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

mkewman

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phil_smith said:
Just gave out on County Dispatch; I almost kept from laughing, but I finally lost it at then end!:

County: Henry 9; need you to COS 911 hangup at xxxx 321 RD; resident is a Woody Johnson...

H9: County did you advised the Woody Johnson residence

County: Affirmative

Little bit later...

H9: Show me 10-98 (complete) negitive contact with any Johnsons, no one was home, residence checks secure.

County: (laughing :lol: )9 OK, it's 3:09


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
 

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At a local hardware store a customer called 911 to report a shoplifter. When the pd was clearing.

We're 10-8, a kid put A nail in his pocket.
 
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In Texas that's grounds for the death penalty! :lol:

Really, how much did that nail cost? 10 cents? And how much did it cost tax payers to have PD come out? :roll:

Thank god it wasnt a tooth pick, they might have called out the swat team....
 

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Here's one after 16 years of dispatching I thought I'd never hear.....

Was sitting here this evening at the home listening post when a nearby town dispatched their ambulance to the local hospital (obviously in their town also) for a neck injury in the hospital lobby!

They just couldn't walk the patient into the ER from the lobby?? :confused:

I heard the rig sign in service and call out at the hospital but then I got distracted and missed whether the rig transported to another hospital or just went back out of service. There must be more to this call than what was put over the air.......

The agency I dispatch for has a hospital in it and in my 16 years I have never dispatched an ambulance there for any reason. At the request of the hospital staff we have dispatched pd units to take reports of certain walk-in victims, but never an ambulance!

Oh well.....it made for an interesting call to listen to!
 
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That happens quite a bit down here, someone goes to the hospital and the triage nurse determines that they dont need immediate attention and has them wait in the lobby while more important/life threatening illnesses or injuries are dealt with. This isnt good enough for these bastards (excuse me but I have no respect for them) who then call 911 to get an ambulance out there. The ambulance is required to respond and thus are not able to go to REAL calls. They come in and if patient wants to go to ER they have to take them, so patient gets a ride around the corner to the Ambulance entrance and the ER has to take them now because they cant keep an ambulance out of service to watch this loser. So now he has not only taken an ambulance away from real calls but he is also taking up an ER bed that could have gone to someone else.

If you work in an ER and this happens, please designate that person as the official paramedic student pin cushion and let students do all IVs and needle sticks on him/her.
 

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Today I heard the dispatcher telling on of the police officers directions & she menant to say gudie & said gofie. I said to myself, she needs a coup of coffee.
 

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TXFirefighter112 said:
That happens quite a bit down here, someone goes to the hospital and the triage nurse determines that they dont need immediate attention and has them wait in the lobby while more important/life threatening illnesses or injuries are dealt with. This isnt good enough for these bastards (excuse me but I have no respect for them) who then call 911 to get an ambulance out there. The ambulance is required to respond and thus are not able to go to REAL calls. They come in and if patient wants to go to ER they have to take them, so patient gets a ride around the corner to the Ambulance entrance and the ER has to take them now because they cant keep an ambulance out of service to watch this loser. So now he has not only taken an ambulance away from real calls but he is also taking up an ER bed that could have gone to someone else.

If you work in an ER and this happens, please designate that person as the official paramedic student pin cushion and let students do all IVs and needle sticks on him/her.

It does happen...but there's a problem: Sometimes it's the real thing. One of my own patients was an old alky and mostly homeless guy that apparently was given a good beating one night and walked into the ER. The triage nurse didn't think it was much so set him aside. (I saw him the next day and he was correct in that.) Old guy starts freaking apparently and complaining about CP (chest pains for ya others) and being the boozy and cranky old guy he is, the nurse ignores him. Someone else in the waiting room calls 9/11 and sure enough, the AMR van shows just about the time the ER staff is getting wind of what's happened and they grab him up before the EMT's come in the door. Sure enough, old boozer had an MI and got cathed early AM before the shift ended. Stuff happens. Old boozers or losers think they have rights...and they do...but the worst offenders are the ones without rights (in MY opinion) or those with insurance that think their doc is their best friend. I've long thought a great solution to this would be to have the triage nurse give a patient with a superficial wound (but bleeding like a stuck pig as they often do) an initial hit of lido c 100,000:1 epi to stop the pain and bleeding and therefore stop the anxiety that causes a lot of bad incidents. -Rod-
 

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Mound talk id, lol. They were discussing how Mound sucks becouse theres no restaurants open to eat at after 8pm and most of the restraunts in the area are "nothing but dirt bag and rich enviroment" followed by how they should go work for one of the departments where the boss feeds the the patrol officers. Then one officer comes on and sais I just left this place couse the employee went into the bathroom and came out to fast, "theres no way he washed his hands". Hahah. More insults about 2 employees that work at carbonies that look alot alike that live on manchester saying "they have rotted teeth dark scragly hair both complete dirtys". WAHAHAHA
 
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[/QUOTE]100,000:1 epi[/QUOTE]

Ummmmm.....it doesnt come in 100,000:1 atleast not that Ive ever heard. Its 1:1,000 or 1:10,000.

For those that dont know what the numbers mean, it is the ratio of drug to normal saline (salt water basically). The higher the ratio, the less potent the drug. 1:10,000 (I believe) is used for IV and 1:1,000 is for into the skin. Could have those backwards though....

And if that man had complained about chest pain to begin with, he may have gone straight back. The only true way to rule out MI is with lab tests because there are times when an MI wont show on a 12 lead (not often, but it happens).
 
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Shreveport LA, a few days ago, a unit was dispatched to a residence for a 911 call. The reason for the call? The caller stated Time Warner had disconnected their cable.

The dispatcher told the officer that she (the dispatcher) had informed the caller that this is not what 911 is for but the caller requested police anyway.

Never heard how this turned out it was late.

HAHAHA I remember that one, the officer sounded rather sarcastic at the time.
 

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Corrected URL for the "9-1-1 cheeseburger" mp3

And of course the many things you DON'T hear over the scanner that the dispatchers and call-takers have to take in stride. This one from Orange County, CA, Sheriff's Department from about a year ago. Everybody's probably heard it by now, though...

http://harrymarnell.com/media/911burger.mp3

Harry
 
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I have a lot of patience, more than most folks do. I could not have been as patient as that call taker was. She deserves an "attaboy" in my book.

Not to be sexist, I guess this could be interpreted as such, however, it was my observation during my career that women were the hardest to deal with in complaint situations. I'm not just saying this based on my experience but on the experiences of female co-workers. In law enforcement situations men definitely raised the old officer safety red flag more often, but when it came to verbal compliance the women presented more of problem than the men. The broken record technique was used more on the gals than the guys.
 

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hmarnell said:
And of course the many things you DON'T hear over the scanner that the dispatchers and call-takers have to take in stride.....Harry

That is for sure! We had a lady call in the other day and ask if our deputies where I work have a dress code. I told her "yes mam, they do." She replied, "Well how come that skin-head cracker that came to my house wasn't wearing his smokey the bear hat?" :roll:

I told her "Mam, I belive the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troopers are the only law enforcement officers in the area that wear those style hats." :lol: :lol:
 

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Heard this on the PD South talkgroup of the Somerset County, NJ Trunk System:

SierraXX: SierraXX to county, i need to run a Georga license, cross dress it with New Jersey errr Cross Reference New Jersey.

County: 10-4, go ahead with the number!
 

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Several years ago I was a sworn officer for Salt Lake City PD. During one of the snow storms that Utah is famous for, one harried officer radioed the dispatcher, "Is the Road Dept. doing anything about this weather?" The dispatcher (her name was Edna Kopp...really, it was) replied, "I don't think they can do anything about the weather, but they are plowing the roads as fast as they can."
 
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