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Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« on: January 12, 2011, 11:09:24 PM »
"12 y.o. female, possibly pregnant, hit the steering wheel with her belly"...uh... why is a 12 y.o. pregnant and why is she driving?

Our local sports arena evacuated because a child pulled the alarm.

This was probably 10 years ago, but I heard on my Radio Shack scanner of a woman who had a cockroach lodge in her ear as she slept...
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 11:16:40 PM »
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This was probably 10 years ago, but I heard on my Radio Shack scanner of a woman who had a cockroach lodge in her ear as she slept...

I didn't know cockroaches did lodges. I thought it was just motels. ;)
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 11:43:10 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on January 12, 2011, 11:16:40 PM
I didn't know cockroaches did lodges. I thought it was just motels. ;)
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2011, 11:45:01 PM »
Let the anti's listen to a PD scanner for a couple of nights and I'll bet they become pro 2nd shortly afterwards.

Re: Cockroach - I don't even want to imagine what that house looked like...
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2011, 11:51:51 PM »
Friend of mine did I.T. for a local ambulance company and set up a digital recording system for all the dispatch calls for service. Certain demographic segments of society knew they could get medical attention and transport quicker if they called the company instead of 911, and that Title 19 insurance/Medicaid etc. would cover ambulance services.

The woman douching with XYZ home cleaning product and writhing and screaming in pain is not an urban legend.  :-X

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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2011, 12:38:14 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on January 12, 2011, 11:51:51 PM
"My gammaws leg espoded and theres worms coming out." Was a great one.  :P
I could have finished my plate of Orzo pasta and lived a life of happiness and contentment without ever reading that.  [barf]
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2011, 12:53:07 AM »
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The woman douching with XYZ home cleaning product and writhing and screaming in pain is not an urban legend.
True. Ditto for the stories of wimmens who have vacuum-locked (?) glass bottles to their nether regions.
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2011, 01:02:29 AM »
"This was probably 10 years ago, but I heard on my Radio Shack scanner of a woman who had a cockroach lodge /itself/ in her ear as she slept...

That a little better, Monkeyleg?  :facepalm: Lol.
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2011, 01:49:26 AM »
Quote from: grislyatoms on January 12, 2011, 11:45:01 PM
Re: Cockroach - I don't even want to imagine what that house looked like...

Assuming she had a house to sleep in.

Quote from: grislyatoms on January 12, 2011, 11:09:24 PM
"why is a 12 y.o. pregnant and why is she driving?

When a man and a woman love each other very, very much...   :P
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2011, 06:44:00 AM »
Quote from: grislyatoms on January 12, 2011, 11:09:24 PM
"12 y.o. female, possibly pregnant, hit the steering wheel with her belly"...uh... why is a 12 y.o. pregnant and why is she driving?


Because she has to get her baby-daddy to his probation interview so he can get his driver's license reinstated, and have the new sex offender GPS stuff put on the car.

Don't you read the Crime section of the fishwrapper any more?

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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2011, 09:31:13 AM »
Back in the late 80's, when I worked at Radio Shack, they carried a scanner that could be mod'd to receive the upper 800 MHz band (cellular).  You want interesting?  Yowza.

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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2011, 09:56:25 AM »
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Let the anti's listen to a PD scanner for a couple of nights and I'll bet they become pro 2nd shortly afterwards.

It won't even be a speed bump in their logic.
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2011, 12:00:34 PM »
I've the seen the cockroach in the ear story on TV before.  Lady had one crawl in her ear and was up against her ear drum.  If it moved, it hurt her a lot and her ear was threatening to swell up.  I think they ended up pouring alcohol or something down her ear to kill the roach then got it out with tweezers and cleaned her ear up.  I thought I heard somewhere that roaches can't back up once they crawl in.
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2011, 12:16:14 PM »
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I thought I heard somewhere that roaches can't back up once they crawl in.

That explains a lot about politics  =(
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2011, 12:23:55 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on January 13, 2011, 12:16:14 PM
That explains a lot about politics  =(
:laugh:

I had a scanner some years ago that could follow the trunked police radios. I sold it a few years ago. More and more agencies are going secure digital, making it hard to follow along unless they purposely make an online stream available to listen to.
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2011, 01:21:47 PM »
You can get some of that stuff online these days....
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Re: Listening to police scanner - interesting calls
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2011, 09:45:52 PM »
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