FerretCon
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So I get home from work Friday the 23'rd around 4:30 PM and I plop on the couch. Within 30 minutes the neighborhood is blowing up with sirens and I run for the scanner. For the next 4 hours I'm treated to some SOB who shot a gal in the shoulder. Then he pops off a couple more rounds and proceeds to barricade himself in his apartment. Here comes SWAT and the apartment evacuation. They finally send in the robot only to find the 27 year old kid shot himself in the head.
I was surprised at how intense the situation was just listening to it. We were about two blocks away from the incident so to hear the response and see the officers flying by added to the intensity. The amount of details was incredible as well. They said the kid even picked up his spent shell casings after discharging the weapon in the complex. It was just intense. Then we turn on the news and there it is!
So Saturday comes and now my wife is listening to the scanner. (I've turned her in to a radio junkie now as well.) From the other room I could tell the radio was blowing up and I asker her what was up. She replied, "I think they said it was on Sprite and University and a Hispanic man jumped in to someone's backyard with a gun." Sure enough she hit it on the head and we sat and listened to the drama unfold. Then on the 5 o'clock news there's the story. I was so proud of my wife to be able to stumble across the story and then follow it through to the end.
Then about an hour ago I'm sitting at work and there's another shooting up by AR Community College where the subject again has barricaded himself in his apartment. Now you would think I should be concerned about the crime but I'm like, "Hell Nah, this stuffs exciting!"
One thing that did catch my attention last Friday night was how much personal information the officers were giving out over the airwaves. The officers were sharing cell phone numbers, personal and county issue. As well as a few of their home address's. I thought to myself, "Maybe that's not such a good idea."
So just quick post to share my scanner weekend with you guys/gals. On the crime side of things I had plenty to listen to.
I was surprised at how intense the situation was just listening to it. We were about two blocks away from the incident so to hear the response and see the officers flying by added to the intensity. The amount of details was incredible as well. They said the kid even picked up his spent shell casings after discharging the weapon in the complex. It was just intense. Then we turn on the news and there it is!
So Saturday comes and now my wife is listening to the scanner. (I've turned her in to a radio junkie now as well.) From the other room I could tell the radio was blowing up and I asker her what was up. She replied, "I think they said it was on Sprite and University and a Hispanic man jumped in to someone's backyard with a gun." Sure enough she hit it on the head and we sat and listened to the drama unfold. Then on the 5 o'clock news there's the story. I was so proud of my wife to be able to stumble across the story and then follow it through to the end.
Then about an hour ago I'm sitting at work and there's another shooting up by AR Community College where the subject again has barricaded himself in his apartment. Now you would think I should be concerned about the crime but I'm like, "Hell Nah, this stuffs exciting!"
One thing that did catch my attention last Friday night was how much personal information the officers were giving out over the airwaves. The officers were sharing cell phone numbers, personal and county issue. As well as a few of their home address's. I thought to myself, "Maybe that's not such a good idea."
So just quick post to share my scanner weekend with you guys/gals. On the crime side of things I had plenty to listen to.