Yup, she called again last night. Twice, actually. Then she must have fallen asleep or the beatings finally stopped. Somebody needs to beat her. I wonder what's with her and the tunnel anyway? WHAT DAMN TUNNEL?!?!?!?!
I just conveniently ignored her - I was too busy to deal with her. There were real emergency calls going on at the time. Well, not necessarily emergencies, but there were calls that actually had some sort of a purpose.
It was definitely the calm before the storm - last night was NUTS. Two accidents - one of which had somebody complaining of back pain so they went to the hospital.
OH - how could I forget the crazy call I got maybe 20 minutes into the shift?! Another PD from NOT NEARBY called us saying they got a call from someone in their department about a man armed with two knives threatening to harm himself and possibly others in the residence. Just what I wanted to hear 20 minutes in on the last day of my rotation. Turns out he didn't want to harm others, only himself... because he got pissed off about something stupid. The guys on scene had me call out the squad for a mental health transport. About an hour later the hospital called bitching that we brought a homicidal person to them.
SAY WHAT?! Um, no. He wasn't threatening the life of anybody but himself. Stop your baby whining and evaluate the moron. Better yet, just throw him in the happy hut with padded walls, he'll be fine after a few hours (or years).
Other than that, the same old noise complaints, abandoned 911 calls, beatings in the tunnel... you know, the normal.
That's about all I really have right now... more to come soon.
Clear and Unavailable,
Dispatcher 6
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Calm before the storm
With an almost full moon and the weather being so nice, it really wasn't that crazy.
The usual few traffic stops, bars weren't busy, a noise complaint or two...oh, and the crazy bitch called again.
She called about something at the start of the shift, but I conveniently forgot about it. Then she called again at around 3 AM complaining that there's somebody teaching somebody how to kill an animal near her house. Of course, when the cops got there, it was dead silent and nobody was outside.
Maybe that's just the calm before the storm. It's still pretty nice out now. Also being a Saturday night, I can only imagine what's in store. Hopefully it's not too nuts, I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow.
Until next time,
I'll be out teaching somebody how to kill animals
Dispatcher 6
The usual few traffic stops, bars weren't busy, a noise complaint or two...oh, and the crazy bitch called again.
She called about something at the start of the shift, but I conveniently forgot about it. Then she called again at around 3 AM complaining that there's somebody teaching somebody how to kill an animal near her house. Of course, when the cops got there, it was dead silent and nobody was outside.
Maybe that's just the calm before the storm. It's still pretty nice out now. Also being a Saturday night, I can only imagine what's in store. Hopefully it's not too nuts, I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow.
Until next time,
I'll be out teaching somebody how to kill animals
Dispatcher 6
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Freeholder is out of jail...
Yes, the crazy old woman is at it again.
She called last night to tell me the Freeholder (that she apparently doesn't like) must have gotten out of jail... and she's asking me why we let him out.
Same caller as the post called There's a fire in the tunnel. It was the freeholder trying to sell her house in that one, too.
Anyway, she said he's out there with a group of people and she heard him say there's going to be a killing tonight. Then she advises me that if there's a murder, we should really look at him as a suspect. As I try to get more information (or keep her going solely for amusement) she just hangs up on me. Damn. That could have been a good one.
I told the Sgt. who happened to be right there entering his tickets. He kinda laughed, got a bit pissed off that she called twice already, and pretty much forgot all about it.
Thankfully we got through the night with no murders. The old bitch finally went back to sleep. Bars were quiet. Roads were empty. Other than a first aid call and a few parking problems, maybe a traffic stop or two, I just sat back, put my feet up on the desk, watched TV for a few hours, and dealt with the chest pain until I could go home and sleep.
Now I just get to look forward to tonight. I think it's great that it's Friday night and it looks like a pretty full moon. Tonight should go SO well. (With extra sarcasm!)
Speaking of, I need to go get uniformed and get my ass out the door.
Until next time,
Clear and unavailable
Dispatcher 6
She called last night to tell me the Freeholder (that she apparently doesn't like) must have gotten out of jail... and she's asking me why we let him out.
Same caller as the post called There's a fire in the tunnel. It was the freeholder trying to sell her house in that one, too.
Anyway, she said he's out there with a group of people and she heard him say there's going to be a killing tonight. Then she advises me that if there's a murder, we should really look at him as a suspect. As I try to get more information (or keep her going solely for amusement) she just hangs up on me. Damn. That could have been a good one.
I told the Sgt. who happened to be right there entering his tickets. He kinda laughed, got a bit pissed off that she called twice already, and pretty much forgot all about it.
Thankfully we got through the night with no murders. The old bitch finally went back to sleep. Bars were quiet. Roads were empty. Other than a first aid call and a few parking problems, maybe a traffic stop or two, I just sat back, put my feet up on the desk, watched TV for a few hours, and dealt with the chest pain until I could go home and sleep.
Now I just get to look forward to tonight. I think it's great that it's Friday night and it looks like a pretty full moon. Tonight should go SO well. (With extra sarcasm!)
Speaking of, I need to go get uniformed and get my ass out the door.
Until next time,
Clear and unavailable
Dispatcher 6
Monday, March 24, 2008
Not Much Happenin'
Ok, sorry, I know I haven't been around in a month, but I'm still here. Hasn't been much to blog about.
The same nutty old woman calling, though she usually doesn't say anything, just hangs up. It annoys me, but I get over it. She goes to sleep eventually.
We had a nice wind storm a few weeks ago. Swept through a bunch of the towns here. There's an old abandoned building that's been there an abandoned for as long as I can remember. The wind storm knocked the front of it clean off. They had the road closed for damn near the whole day and the rest of the building was torn down.
Had a 9-1-1... actually, about 30 9-1-1 calls the other day that pissed me off. Kid playing with an old deactivated cell phone. They come up with 911 area codes and we can't call them back. I swear this kid, who was VERY young, called at LEAST 30 times. It pissed me off to no end and I couldn't even call another town to get a GPS location on it because 9-1-1 kept ringing!
Other than that, I've been with a volunteer organization I belong to. I've been a bit busy with that these past few weeks and then this past Saturday was my nieces first birthday party so I was out most of the day for that. This weekend I'm going to Connecticut with my girlfriend. Supposed to be for the other organization I belong to, but it's going to turn out just being a vacation for the two of us.
Oh... part of the reason I haven't been around is because I broke my computer about a week after my last post. I finally rebuilt another one I had sitting in my basement but it's on its way out, too. I'm about to be without a computer for a little while, but I'll be back.
On the subject of computers, my girlfriend got a new one. Nice MacBook. I WANT ONE!!!!!!! The thing is freakin' awesome so that's what I'm going to look into. Can't do anything soon, though, need to pay for the vacation. It'll be a while, I'm a dispatcher, they don't pay me much.
Until next time,
Clear and Unavailable
Dispatcher 6
The same nutty old woman calling, though she usually doesn't say anything, just hangs up. It annoys me, but I get over it. She goes to sleep eventually.
We had a nice wind storm a few weeks ago. Swept through a bunch of the towns here. There's an old abandoned building that's been there an abandoned for as long as I can remember. The wind storm knocked the front of it clean off. They had the road closed for damn near the whole day and the rest of the building was torn down.
Had a 9-1-1... actually, about 30 9-1-1 calls the other day that pissed me off. Kid playing with an old deactivated cell phone. They come up with 911 area codes and we can't call them back. I swear this kid, who was VERY young, called at LEAST 30 times. It pissed me off to no end and I couldn't even call another town to get a GPS location on it because 9-1-1 kept ringing!
Other than that, I've been with a volunteer organization I belong to. I've been a bit busy with that these past few weeks and then this past Saturday was my nieces first birthday party so I was out most of the day for that. This weekend I'm going to Connecticut with my girlfriend. Supposed to be for the other organization I belong to, but it's going to turn out just being a vacation for the two of us.
Oh... part of the reason I haven't been around is because I broke my computer about a week after my last post. I finally rebuilt another one I had sitting in my basement but it's on its way out, too. I'm about to be without a computer for a little while, but I'll be back.
On the subject of computers, my girlfriend got a new one. Nice MacBook. I WANT ONE!!!!!!! The thing is freakin' awesome so that's what I'm going to look into. Can't do anything soon, though, need to pay for the vacation. It'll be a while, I'm a dispatcher, they don't pay me much.
Until next time,
Clear and Unavailable
Dispatcher 6
Monday, February 25, 2008
"911 Where's your static?"
This one is rather strange.
The other night I got an abandoned 911 from a residence not too far from Police Headquarters. I answered the phone and all I heard was static. Couldn't tell if anybody was there talking or not. I hung up 911 and picked up the 7-digit line and dialed the number back. It rang once then I started hearing the static again so I just hung up. I dispatched a cop to that residence as an abandoned 911, busy on the callback. While he was en-route, I tried calling it again and got a normal busy signal. Three cops arrive, and after a few minutes, they asked me to try calling the number again. All that was running through my mind was that they had multiple phone lines and they weren't sure which one they might have mistakenly dialed 911 from. Well, when I called it back, I got a fast busy signal and stated that over the radio. A few minutes of silence go by and one of them says they've spoken to a neighbor and the owner of that house died just over a year ago, there's nobody in the house, and the family has been trying to sell it. They were also not aware of any phones that were connected... as far as they knew, the house was completely empty.
Isn't that just STRANGE? Kinda freaked me out a bit.
To top all of that off... the whole night it's sounded like somebody was walking up and down the hallway, up and down stairs, or walking around the front lobby at random times throughout the shift. I've checked the cameras and physically looked in those areas I could get to without walking out of Dispatch and there was absolutely NOTHING there and all of the cops were out on the road. I thought maybe one of them might have sneaked in and is messing around... but what explains it when everybody I had on the road is out on a call?
Hiding in the corner,
Dispatcher 6
The other night I got an abandoned 911 from a residence not too far from Police Headquarters. I answered the phone and all I heard was static. Couldn't tell if anybody was there talking or not. I hung up 911 and picked up the 7-digit line and dialed the number back. It rang once then I started hearing the static again so I just hung up. I dispatched a cop to that residence as an abandoned 911, busy on the callback. While he was en-route, I tried calling it again and got a normal busy signal. Three cops arrive, and after a few minutes, they asked me to try calling the number again. All that was running through my mind was that they had multiple phone lines and they weren't sure which one they might have mistakenly dialed 911 from. Well, when I called it back, I got a fast busy signal and stated that over the radio. A few minutes of silence go by and one of them says they've spoken to a neighbor and the owner of that house died just over a year ago, there's nobody in the house, and the family has been trying to sell it. They were also not aware of any phones that were connected... as far as they knew, the house was completely empty.
Isn't that just STRANGE? Kinda freaked me out a bit.
To top all of that off... the whole night it's sounded like somebody was walking up and down the hallway, up and down stairs, or walking around the front lobby at random times throughout the shift. I've checked the cameras and physically looked in those areas I could get to without walking out of Dispatch and there was absolutely NOTHING there and all of the cops were out on the road. I thought maybe one of them might have sneaked in and is messing around... but what explains it when everybody I had on the road is out on a call?
Hiding in the corner,
Dispatcher 6
Sunday, February 24, 2008
"There's a fire in the tunnel"
I love these calls.
We have this elderly resident who calls multiple times daily at alllllllll different times of the day to report stuff that really doesn't exist - to normal people.
First call - phone rings, her name comes up on Caller ID so I'm ready for a good bullshit call. There's nobody there. I can here her walking around, though. She does this quite often. I hang up and ignore it.
Second call - later in the night. All 4 guys on the road out at a disturbance call. Around midnight, maybe. Somebody told her to call the police because there's a fire in the tunnel at (insert address here). Then she hangs up. I told the Sgt and he got one of the guys from the disturbance call to break free. I didn't dispatch fire - I figured it's a small town. If there really was a fire, I'd have more calls on it... and besides, the cop would be there in a minute anyway. There was no fire. The resident at the address the caller gave has no idea of any tunnels. Fine. Clear - unfounded.
Third and final call - about 1:45 AM. Caller states there's a group of people on the street near her house trying to sell her house. She's got this whole story about how her house is listed for sale (which it's not) and continues to ramble the whole thing. She also stated, at some point in this mess of complete BS, that they should just lock him up, he's crazy. I'm just thinking to myself "haha, you say HE'S crazy?!" So I send one of the guys out on that one to talk to the caller and her family members that she lives with. Two of the other ones call out on the radio as if they were responding to a structure fire... "RECEIVED, SELLING HOUSE, ENROUTE!" They were just joking, of course, but I almost fell on the floor from laughing so hard... and I was still laughing at the fact that she said this person who's in the middle of the street is crazy.
So the one cop arrives with the Sgt (who's not happy about a THIRD call in one shift) and they said there's nobody in the streets. They go to talk to the caller (and her family) to figure out the situation. Her family members probably yelled at her a bit and must have unplugged her phone or something. Maybe they handed her one of those Barbie phones that talks to the person playing with it. Either way, she didn't call back the rest of the shift.
It's just rather entertaining sometimes. I guess it's better than the guy who calls to complain about STUPID shit like the ashes falling on his property.
Until next time,
I'll be putting out the fire in the tunnel...
Dispatcher 6
We have this elderly resident who calls multiple times daily at alllllllll different times of the day to report stuff that really doesn't exist - to normal people.
First call - phone rings, her name comes up on Caller ID so I'm ready for a good bullshit call. There's nobody there. I can here her walking around, though. She does this quite often. I hang up and ignore it.
Second call - later in the night. All 4 guys on the road out at a disturbance call. Around midnight, maybe. Somebody told her to call the police because there's a fire in the tunnel at (insert address here). Then she hangs up. I told the Sgt and he got one of the guys from the disturbance call to break free. I didn't dispatch fire - I figured it's a small town. If there really was a fire, I'd have more calls on it... and besides, the cop would be there in a minute anyway. There was no fire. The resident at the address the caller gave has no idea of any tunnels. Fine. Clear - unfounded.
Third and final call - about 1:45 AM. Caller states there's a group of people on the street near her house trying to sell her house. She's got this whole story about how her house is listed for sale (which it's not) and continues to ramble the whole thing. She also stated, at some point in this mess of complete BS, that they should just lock him up, he's crazy. I'm just thinking to myself "haha, you say HE'S crazy?!" So I send one of the guys out on that one to talk to the caller and her family members that she lives with. Two of the other ones call out on the radio as if they were responding to a structure fire... "RECEIVED, SELLING HOUSE, ENROUTE!" They were just joking, of course, but I almost fell on the floor from laughing so hard... and I was still laughing at the fact that she said this person who's in the middle of the street is crazy.
So the one cop arrives with the Sgt (who's not happy about a THIRD call in one shift) and they said there's nobody in the streets. They go to talk to the caller (and her family) to figure out the situation. Her family members probably yelled at her a bit and must have unplugged her phone or something. Maybe they handed her one of those Barbie phones that talks to the person playing with it. Either way, she didn't call back the rest of the shift.
It's just rather entertaining sometimes. I guess it's better than the guy who calls to complain about STUPID shit like the ashes falling on his property.
Until next time,
I'll be putting out the fire in the tunnel...
Dispatcher 6
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
"Headquarters, I'll have a 39..."
"... Scratch that, in foot pursuit! Get a rig and medics!"
So this unlicensed Mexican, who I'm betting is illegal, was speeding down a road in town, one of the cops turns his lights on and apparently freaks this guy out or something. He hits a nice new Lexus, a telephone pole, and the front of a restaurant. Then jumps out and starts running. Turns out he was drunk, too.
This was at about 1:30 in the morning. As of the time I left at 6 in the morning, they were STILL working on the pole that was hanging by the wires. It finally got cleaned up around 2 in the afternoon.
Apparently the hospital also wanted to keep him for x-rays and stuff, too. Not sure when we're getting him back and I highly doubt he'll show up for court. The driver and the owner of the vehicle were written a NICE number of tickets though! I hope he does come in for court, he's in for a world of shit.
Apparently this restaurant has a nice recessed brick front end now. Haven't seen it yet... last time I went by, the road was still closed. Sucked for morning traffic, I assume. That's a busy area.
I'm also surprised it didn't knock the power out in town. That would have been kind of funny to have a borough-wide power outage for a third day in a row.
Clear and Unavailable
Dispatcher 6
So this unlicensed Mexican, who I'm betting is illegal, was speeding down a road in town, one of the cops turns his lights on and apparently freaks this guy out or something. He hits a nice new Lexus, a telephone pole, and the front of a restaurant. Then jumps out and starts running. Turns out he was drunk, too.
This was at about 1:30 in the morning. As of the time I left at 6 in the morning, they were STILL working on the pole that was hanging by the wires. It finally got cleaned up around 2 in the afternoon.
Apparently the hospital also wanted to keep him for x-rays and stuff, too. Not sure when we're getting him back and I highly doubt he'll show up for court. The driver and the owner of the vehicle were written a NICE number of tickets though! I hope he does come in for court, he's in for a world of shit.
Apparently this restaurant has a nice recessed brick front end now. Haven't seen it yet... last time I went by, the road was still closed. Sucked for morning traffic, I assume. That's a busy area.
I'm also surprised it didn't knock the power out in town. That would have been kind of funny to have a borough-wide power outage for a third day in a row.
Clear and Unavailable
Dispatcher 6
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