Boy, what a night last night.
College classes start this Monday, so we've had a multitude of new students roaming the city for the last week looking for parties and mischief.
I was working last night, responding to the many loud and insane parties littering the neighborhoods of our normally peaceful burg. At around 0200, as our shift is winding down, my partner and I take it back into the station and take our paperwork down to dispatch. As we walk in, we hear a 911 call coming in.
The dispatcher gets on the phone and her expression changes to one of distgust.
"Ma'am, are you calling to report a crime? How do you know a crime has been committed."
A pause...
"So ma'am let me get this straight, you heard somebody yelling 'Yoohoo' and you think they just committed a crime of some sort?"
A pause...
"OK we'll send someone out." At this point, everyone in the office has their eyes on this dispatcher as she is logging the call. Then she dispatches it over the air...
"Unit X, respond to a possible vandalism call in area of x. RP states that she heard subjects yelling 'YOOHOO'....etc"
Then a certain member of the brass gets on the radio and says "[Callsign] can you 10-9 [repeat] what the RP was saying?"
Dispatch: "[callsign] Check your MDC."
Right now, everyone in dispatch is cracking up and the dispatcher on the call is blushing.
Then another certain member of the brass radios in.
"[Callsign] to [Callsign] that would be... 'Yooooooooo-Hoooooooo.'"
Then about 5 minutes later the responding officer radios in.
"[Callsign] 10-97 [On scene] unable to locate vandalism or YooHoo."
I damn near fell out of my chair.
Edit: Oh and then there was the lady who called 911 to report a loud party.
College classes start this Monday, so we've had a multitude of new students roaming the city for the last week looking for parties and mischief.
I was working last night, responding to the many loud and insane parties littering the neighborhoods of our normally peaceful burg. At around 0200, as our shift is winding down, my partner and I take it back into the station and take our paperwork down to dispatch. As we walk in, we hear a 911 call coming in.
The dispatcher gets on the phone and her expression changes to one of distgust.
"Ma'am, are you calling to report a crime? How do you know a crime has been committed."
A pause...
"So ma'am let me get this straight, you heard somebody yelling 'Yoohoo' and you think they just committed a crime of some sort?"
A pause...
"OK we'll send someone out." At this point, everyone in the office has their eyes on this dispatcher as she is logging the call. Then she dispatches it over the air...
"Unit X, respond to a possible vandalism call in area of x. RP states that she heard subjects yelling 'YOOHOO'....etc"
Then a certain member of the brass gets on the radio and says "[Callsign] can you 10-9 [repeat] what the RP was saying?"
Dispatch: "[callsign] Check your MDC."
Right now, everyone in dispatch is cracking up and the dispatcher on the call is blushing.
Then another certain member of the brass radios in.
"[Callsign] to [Callsign] that would be... 'Yooooooooo-Hoooooooo.'"
Then about 5 minutes later the responding officer radios in.
"[Callsign] 10-97 [On scene] unable to locate vandalism or YooHoo."
I damn near fell out of my chair.
Edit: Oh and then there was the lady who called 911 to report a loud party.

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