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I almost turned it into a "The funniest things you've heard on your scanner thread" but I thought....nah...but look what it's turned into! This is great! Those are some of the funniest things I've heard in a while. And no, that was the Fine, Upstanding, Professional, Numero Uno, Best-in-the-State, City of Yakima Fire Department...ahem...sarcasm.
Someone on my department would probably say something like "Ummm...Control?.....Um, we're responding to the fire?" Here in the Upper Valley, with two main repeaters for fire, we're always making fun of each others department for what we say on the radio....it's like an unspoken battle....cold war-ish, although I hate to relate it to that.....
I've never heard anything like "the fucking white wagon that goes woo woo woo," but I've heard some pretty funny things. There's a fire deartment up Chinook Pass that's full of old-tymer fire fighters that have all been around for a while. I remember hearing one of them say a while ago, "Engine XX is in service, back in the barn." We also have neighboring fire districts that buy all their firefighters a radio and when a conflict arises as to who's fire district the call falls into, everyone and their dog gets on the air to put their two cents in on who should be responding to the call. This literally went on for a half an hour. Thank god nobody was dying....
We also have petty theft calls like, "RP advised that a male subject came up and stole a vacuum cleaner off her front porch." We have officers that get on the air after having an argument with a suspect and say, "Dispatch, after lengthy discussion, she was advised to leave the downtown area and never come back, ever.....I'll be clear, code adam."
What I find even more funnier is listening to the City of Yakima Streets Department guys who think nobody is listening to them on their 800mhz trunked system. Just the other day one guy was calling another guy "Mother Hen, or Mother Goose or whatever the hell you name is, open up the gate!" I've also heard them laugh about splashing people when they're out plowing. I don't think their bosses listen to them....
Not to many funny things around here, but when it does happen, it just goes to show everyone that cops and fire fighters are just like everyone else, they make mistakes; except for when you're plowing and splashing people, that's actually being an ass hole.....
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