Police Scanner Day

We had one this morning where the fire department was paged out to help load an extremely large dead individual into the mortuary's removal vehicle.

 

And you thought being a fireman was all dramatic rescues and picnics with mobsters from Jersey.

 

One time we had an APB called over the scanner for a "Delicious Peters."

Somebody actually responded "Excuse me?" and the cop said again, Delicious Peters -- I believe it was on suspicion of assault or something like that.

 

A couple of years ago we had one where the dispatcher informed the cops that there were a couple of skunks fornicating (yes, he said "fornicating") at a major intersection in this small town. Cops did not respond.

(Major intersection and small town just doesn't sound right.)

 

A couple weeks ago I went back home for a few days, (home is a quite little town in Northern California). Its about 11:00 at night, and I'm pulling up to a stop sign at an intersection a few blocks from my house. Parked right there at the corner is a cop, his engine is and all his lights are off. As I pull up, I look over and see that he doesn't have his radar gun out or anything like that, instead, he's playing solitaire on the computer he has on his dash board. The guy was so oblivious to everything around him that it took him a good 10 seconds to realized that I was next to him, staring right at him. When he finally noticed me, with both had a good laugh, and I went on my way.

 

Wasn't today, but last week some time: "Caller says her boyfriend is hitting himself in the head with a hammer."

Musta been reading Ann Coulter's book.

 

Bringing up this zombie of a thread:

Dispatch sending an ambulance:

Dispatch: "Man seeking medical attention. Bleeding from, umm lower half, of body"
Ambulance driver: "Sorry, can you repeat."
Dispatch: "Man seeking medical attention. Bleeding from, the umm, lower half, of body...well, he's bleeding from his penis."

Every guy in the newsroom howled in pain.

It still makes me twitch just remembering that story.

 

You searched for this to post that? :cringes:

 

He musta been reading Ann Coulter's book.

 

I enjoy sharing pain...and again...this is something that women don't get about guys, even the thought of pain "down there" sucks (/crossthread)

 

Either that or watching a tape replay of any of Jimmy Carter's State of the Union addresses...

 

A little slice of how good SportsJournalists.com was five years ago.