Jest Out of Jurisdiction
Law Enforcement / First Responder stories and experiences with a focus on comedic blunders, events, and the lighter side of stressful jobs. Stories are firsthand accounts told by the hosts Flash and T-Dot with accompanying guest interviews.
Jest Out of Jurisdiction
Furry Tails, Coyote Wails, and Fishy Smells.
Our episode captures the dynamic environment of a dispatch center, where every call presents a new challenge, from life-threatening emergencies to quirky mishaps. Through memorable tales, like the amusing misunderstanding involving Timmy's fishy microwave mishap or the bizarre rescue of a coyote at a McDonald's, we highlight the importance of communication and teamwork. Discover how humor and camaraderie serve as vital coping mechanisms for dispatchers as they navigate their high-stress responsibilities, balancing urgent calls with moments of levity that keep spirits high.
Blue lights from the dead of the night, lying on a run of dim street light, laughing through the written reports. Truth stranger than the wildest courts. Tales from the force gone astray Caught up in the games they play High speed chases gone awry. Serious turns into pie in the sky, just out of jurisdiction, left during the conviction Out there, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:For us it's like being in the 30s and just listening to the radio. We don't get any moving pictures with what's going on. So, you know, listening to the podcast has just been. For me it's been reminiscent of you know, hey how'd that call shake out?
Speaker 4:I know Well, I mean we'd come up there and you got to hear the end.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah. But you're lucky because we liked you. I like to leave people hanging that I didn't.
Speaker 4:I don't know, we had a pretty good night shift dispatch crew. For a while it was, everybody was pretty good.
Speaker 3:So I think let me get this straight we knew each other from CrossFit. Yes, I remember I was telling him. I said I remember I knew you'd applied and I was sitting in the detective's office and I saw you walk by for the interview because they did it over in our side and I pulled lay or whoever's interviewing Mike, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So carry that dude man.
Speaker 3:So that dude is a good day, so you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Or I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:Whichever's most appropriate. I honestly hated to see you go because you had that level of sarcasm. It was perfect.
Speaker 2:I mean not to get too excitable, but just bring enough levity to what's going on.
Speaker 3:The good news is he came to day shift for us. So it was me and Rob Jackson for a while, me and Roby and gosh who all was it Ben Was he on there. And Dylan a lot of times, dylan, blair and whoever else was you know, yeah, whoever else came around to day shift, like when Rod went to the detective's office. I think Roby became the sergeant and gosh, who was it? Ben, dylan, maybe?
Speaker 4:Was Ben off PTO then yeah, yeah, this was.
Speaker 3:I was lieutenant, so it was like right before the.
Speaker 4:I was there in the web 28 days or web 47 or whatever it was logged in dispatch gosh, I was trying to remember that shift.
Speaker 3:I can't. I mean it was a good shift. My last act before I went up to the chief office was I had I was getting it. I just had got assigned blake evans to train Randy's like here. It was like the check rides or we all had like a couple weeks left. I think I rode around with him for that day. I was like I didn't have any judgment. Then the next day I was like gee. I was like what do I do with this idiot?
Speaker 2:Now he's my problem, it's funny.
Speaker 4:You ready.
Speaker 3:Always All right. So we got a lot to do in at least an hour hour and a half, so you got to leave it. Well, we've all got stories, but this will be a different one for me, because I'm like because I've never dispatched a different world, so I'm ready.
Speaker 2:It is. It's a little bit different, but it's always hand in hand with what you guys are doing.
Speaker 1:So mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:It starts with you.
Speaker 3:All right, let's do it.
Speaker 4:All right guys, Back with another episode.
Speaker 3:Oh heck, you were recording anyway.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I've been recording no.
Speaker 3:I didn't test that stuff.
Speaker 2:Do you never listen to these episodes?
Speaker 1:back no, but.
Speaker 3:I've never seen them. It starts at least two minutes before the welcome. That's what people love. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:But anyways, tonight we've got a little different episode with you. We're always talking about first responders and there's a big debate out that dispatchers aren't first responders, but I would argue that they are the first responder for most things. Um, I've got a lot of respect for him. Work, got to work with a lot of them and, uh, who we have with us, I've got a lot of respect for him, probably one of the best dispatchers that I ever was on the other side of the radio of and uh, without further ado, mr shannon kane yay thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3:It's exciting because we've we've worked a lot of shifts together, um, knew each other before a little bit and, you know, just worked out together. Then you went, you were hired, then went to night shift and forgot you. I was like, oh, because this is when I was on day shift.
Speaker 2:But how many years did you like? How long have you been serving in that capacity? I've been between. I did full-time for almost six years and then I've been PRN. I started back about mid-year this past year.
Speaker 4:He knew that I wasn't going to be there anymore.
Speaker 3:He came back he's like well, this is shenanigans. Actually, I knew you were going, so I just found out I was going to leave it's not going to be fun anymore.
Speaker 2:That's different.
Speaker 4:Shannon's, the only one that appreciated my one more gins.
Speaker 3:If you walk into our dispatch center I don't know how much you know every little elementary school seems like tourism, you know. Oh yeah, they walk in, but it's got like this vibe about it. It's like a dungeon but yet surrounded with computers, like everybody's got their workstation. There's like 72 monitors up. It feels like which they've got the cool things where they go up and down. You know the monitors do and you can stand, because those days and nights get long. We had some good times in there. I remember one time I don't know if he was working days or not, but I shut down basically everything. I walked in there. We had a big situation going on in Corbin, a murder or they found somebody. Sheriff's office was down there and I'd sent guys down there to assist. Sheriff's office was down there and I'd sent guys down there to assist and little did I know.
Speaker 4:I was positive for the COVIDs. Yeah, you did spread COVID throughout the entire PD.
Speaker 3:I was patient zero, yes absolutely At dispatch and the London PD and whoever else came in contact. We appreciate that You're welcome, but that was me. We appreciate that You're welcome, but that was me. But you know it's a different world Police and fire and everybody that goes to cause totally relies on everything that you're giving out. And what a huge responsibility it is.
Speaker 2:It is, it is, it is. I mean you know it's one that if you do this for a minute and you halfway at all care about what you're doing, you don't take that lightly. You know you don't sit and stew over it, obviously, because you don't have time to. You know you'll take a devastator and be trying to get everybody where they need to go and then you know, five minutes later you've got somebody calling and won't know what time the chicken fryer is starting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know. So I mean, the next call is coming, no matter how you feel about the last call. Yeah, and it's always. You know, it's always one of those things where you want to. You just don't get to sit in it long. You give it the attention that it needs and then you have to move on to the next thing.
Speaker 3:One thing I try to always do is thank you guys after a call, after a situation. I tried my best. It didn't always work out that way, but all the dispatchers thank you for every time. You guided us in, you kept us out of some, probably some bad situations and let us know hey, this got a weapon, whatever. Yeah, it was just a. But you all don't always see the outcome of what we saw and um, the, or the solution, or the, whatever happened resolution the resolution that'd be the better.
Speaker 3:And, and I and it's tough when you're like man, I sent these guys and I know, and a lot of times I think about you're like, did you guys have the D you know as hot washes, or the, the after action report? You know where you can sit and talk about it and get it off your chest. But you all were on to the next call and it may be an emergency call for the county or something that didn't involve us where we could take a minute and be like, ok, let's decompress here, let's talk about this, talk about your feelings, type stuff. You know you forget about that sometimes and I know some of the worst incidents ever. You all were the ones making that phone call to me. Yeah, and I, geez, that's tough, that's tough stuff and I apologize personally. I apologize for maybe not getting some of the mental health things that I got for the police that probably should have called it over there to you all and be like, hey, by the way, these guys were the ones that took those calls.
Speaker 2:There never was a whole lot of that, you know, available to us overtly. You know there might be a flyer sitting around somewhere saying you know if you need somebody to talk to or whatever. So you know, basically the dark humor kind of kicks in and people can feel how they want to feel about that and I understand that. But until you sit in that seat and you hear the things that you hear and you deal with things that you deal with, you know you can't really appreciate the level of the strength of that coping mechanism to be able to laugh that off. You know, and and is it always appropriate? Probably not, but it's.
Speaker 4:It's a whole lot better than a lot of the alternatives and I would argue that if you don't adapt to that coping myth mechanism that you don't make it very long. No, in that, in that field of any type, whether it be fire, rescue, police dispatch, I mean, it would eat away at you and you'd never survive.
Speaker 2:And it becomes our own love language with one another.
Speaker 3:And that's the same way with us, the cutting up. There's a time for it, definitely, and most of the time it was for it because we were just trying to work through our own, whatever was going on in our head and even with that, I mean, there's been many times that my wife would hear me talking to some of the guys that I worked with and she'd be like if that's how you talk to your friends.
Speaker 1:I'd hate to hear you talk to your family, you know.
Speaker 4:but you know, that's what I said. It would be nothing to call somebody up and be like what are you doing, douchebag? And then it's all insults, but none of it's meant, and if I wasn't insulting you, it meant that I either didn't respect you or didn't like you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I wasn't cutting on you, then I probably didn't like you very much. You didn't cut on me much.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, I did.
Speaker 3:You just couldn't hear me.
Speaker 4:You had too many bars for me to cut on you too much by the time I got there. You've got to be careful if you cut on somebody with straps when Shannon came to day shift.
Speaker 3:I was on day shift at this time. My favorite was working Saturday Sunday. It was usually a little slower. Saturday Sunday, it was usually a little slower. I had a good crew, great crew at the police department, and then I had a great crew in dispatch. Well, we shared the building, so we'd go up there and I don't know I mean, y'all had the cool ice machine at the time, yeah, so I was always up there getting ice I do remember that and they would make popcorn, so I was always up there getting ice.
Speaker 3:I do remember that one, yeah, and they would make popcorn yes, that popcorn up there and it was just a time for us to all be together and it was good. I think that partnership, when you can sit and cut up and cut on each other, is so good for our souls, is so good for our souls. And to see who you are, see how your staff were with the police department. Okay, the call come in, we go and we try to get back there when we can.
Speaker 4:But we watched plenty of Sunday movies and that's good for another aspect also, because you end up learning each other, and that's good for another aspect also, because you end up learning each other. So when you do hear me say something over the radio, or you know what I'm trying to say, what I mean, and you're not going to take something that I say to offense or that I'm you know. Or if I say something and I'm in the middle of grandma cussing me and it comes over a little crass over the radio, yeah you know that's not a character.
Speaker 3:But the cool thing is we had a relationship where I'd come back in and be like hey, my bad.
Speaker 4:This is what was going on. I tried to do that.
Speaker 3:So that was so, I mean. But that was some of my favorite times. You know, when I went to that, you know we was working those 12-hour shifts, so every other weekend we'd work together. So it was a blast. We had a good time, A lot of fun.
Speaker 2:We never had to call you over because the popcorn scent just kind of wafted over that.
Speaker 4:Well, I mean so dispatch was kind of the hangout. Anyways, we didn't want to hang out in the PD, we wanted to hang out in dispatch.
Speaker 3:Well, especially on the weekends, and I know there was people that frowned on that somewhat, because we didn't want to distract you guys.
Speaker 4:People frowning on stuff.
Speaker 3:But they had an oven and they were there.
Speaker 4:And some of the greatest food ever made Crockpots.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean breakfast up there was like Some awesome breakfast, but I do want to. Last episode Chief made the comment that he never really yelled who Derek, derek.
Speaker 3:And he's trying to come across nice.
Speaker 1:I know he's trying to come across as a nice guy.
Speaker 2:But I had to insert one correction there and it had to do with food and it had to do with Timmy. Yeah, timmy's a good cook, great cook, loved to cook up there. You know, that was his thing. And he had brought in some fish and stuck it in the microwave and was warming it up, oh no, and just as that popcorn, that luscious popcorn scent, would waft over your all's way, oh, yeah, so did the stinky fish.
Speaker 2:Apparently so did the stinky fish. Well, derek comes busting into the dispatch center, which is right in the middle of the kitchen yeah, the access. And he starts cussing about this fish cooking. Well, timmy thought that he was joking, so he kind of cracks back at him. Now we all know how well Derek likes to be talked back to, yes. And so that escalated quickly and Timmy realized quickly that this wasn't going to go how he thought it was going to go. So, yeah, that came with a lot of air freshener and a big apology.
Speaker 3:I can't ever say I've been. I have been frustrated and I apologize, jamie, he caught the brunt of something. I think we got told that there was some stuff going on major stuff. But I had guys out on domestic and I needed I was trying to hear what they were, if they were okay. Some stuff going on major stuff, but I had guys out on domestic and I was trying to hear if they were okay. It was maybe a weapons involved. So we got told to hush our radio traffic by a dispatcher and I didn't think it was time or appropriate, with us being out on a major, it was time or appropriate with us being out on a major, you know.
Speaker 3:I called it could be volatile and I went in and Jamie caught my absolutely. He had nothing to do with it, but he caught.
Speaker 3:I was like who's supervising you know, one of them deals. Apparently that was the supervisor, but he just kind of took it. He's like what is that? I said step out's supervising one of them deals. Apparently that was the supervisor, but he just kind of took it. He's like what is that? I said step out in the hall and I just lost it. He's still mad at me to this day, I think. But he's like he's standing there like what did I do? I was like okay. And then I'm like man, I'm sorry, I was just real frustrated.
Speaker 3:I was worried about the guys, and I think it wasn't even him. He had nothing to do with it. He had just walked in for his shift, but he was a senior guy there and I unloaded. So emotions run high on hot calls too, they do. And since then, of course we're okay, we golf together. I think I even hired him over at the PD. Course we're okay, we golf together. I think I even hired him over at the PD. So you're welcome. I made it up to you or I screwed everybody else up over there.
Speaker 4:With that being said, that kind of brings upon a point that dispatch kind of gets to hear some of our firsts too over the radio when our anxiety and stuff's hitting high. I can't remember who was working my first pursuit, but I'm sure it was comical on the other side, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, people don't realize how much tone a voice sets the tone for those exchanges. There's one guy and I won't mention his name because he's he's still working down at the so and he could key up and call 10-8 and make you think that the house was on fire oh yeah, you know, just by the way, the urgency.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and, and that's. That's one of those things that you know. We always tried to make sure and regulate. Richie used to tease me that I could give out an alarm or a shots fired call and he'd have to stop and listen to see which one it was.
Speaker 3:Is this hot and that's good to stay chill. That way you're articulating what's going on. But there is something about when a dispatcher that's usually chill gets amped up.
Speaker 2:You're like uh-oh yeah, You're like and the thing that we always have to be and there were a lot of really good dispatchers before me that taught me this was that we set the tone in the way in which we give out the call. So if I'm all excited and carried away and I give you guys a call, you guys are already on nine. Then all of a sudden you go to 11 when you hear me right and you know if I'm not, if I'm not regulating that, so I don't want to send you out already over-reving before you ever get there.
Speaker 3:Well, I swear, when I first started, there was people that liked to just make you that way. I'm like I go into a column, what's going on, but that's a dangerous game that we play, you know, that's there. I mean you're listening to people call in, like I called in the other day on an emergency. I had something going on and I called in. I'm like, is this what I got? You know, after I took the breath I was like, okay, I got to remember how to you know, I was panicking. I was like, hey, here's what I got, here's my address. And they were like, okay, I was like, you know, 40 minutes later, you know that ambulance hadn't got there, you know. And of course the dispatcher was going to catch all my frustrations. I was like why, where is this ambulance at? So I called back when are we at? Oh, they had to come from Corbin and I mean I'm like what? And you know I'm like, don't you know who I am? You know that kind of bull crap. Like I'm somebody, yeah, but it was just like you can't control what you can't control. You're doing your job of saying here's, here's where the call's at.
Speaker 3:And okay, you're at the mercy of that responding officer, yeah, and the people calling or officer or first responder, and you're at the mercy and you're at the of whatever's going on with that, that situation. But you're also hearing the brunt of some, somebody that's upset, because usually if they're calling it's their worst day. Oh yeah, and that's hard for all of us. Who's? You know, all three of us sitting here and every first responder, I think it's.
Speaker 3:We have answered so many calls for service. I don't know how many parking lot wrecks I've worked or how many fender benders on the highway. It becomes routine and yet the person we're dealing with that's their very first accident they've ever had. So that empathy and we lose that sometimes. And being able to regulate that to like, hey, it's okay, honey, we're here for you oh, that's a tough job, especially and I know how many calls you got every day and you could go from the worst thing in the world to like you said like, can you have an officer come over and help me turn on my pilot light on my hot water heater?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, and those can be back-to-back calls. That's crazy to me. And you can around here, especially with the interstate, you can kind of gauge the seriousness of the call, the legitimate seriousness of the call, by how many calls you're receiving Right. Seriousness of the call by how many calls you're receiving right, because if you know we'll get a call that somebody's going to gotten on the wrong way. Uh, on the interstate they went down the wrong ramp, the wrong way, and if you get one call on that, those ramps are long enough that they figured it out. If you've only gotten that one call, they figured it out and they got it turned around and we're still going to send somebody out there just to make sure. Yeah, but now if we start getting call after call, after call after call and it's just lighting it up like a Christmas tree, then they made it to the interstate and they're still going the wrong way.
Speaker 4:And on the other side of that the same works, because we, you know, you all know that and we've learned that as well If we go 97 on something but you know we're unable to find it, we'll, you know, a lot of times you'd holler back and say, hey, how many calls have you had on this? And if you reply, you know one all right, 98, you tell you know, and there's been so many times.
Speaker 3:We know they're not getting a lot of calls, but we still. You have to respond.
Speaker 4:That's the duty of every time You're going to do your due diligence to try and find it.
Speaker 3:And I would get frustrated. I ain't going to lie. I would get frustrated Like why did they give that call to us? And I get it? I get it now, especially when I went into more administration. It's not, it's all probably in your policies and procedures give the call out. Yeah, you can't hold them.
Speaker 4:But also what if?
Speaker 1:And then there's that what if?
Speaker 3:Because you hold one, you're like, eh, that's silly. That could be a disaster.
Speaker 4:Exactly, and the dispatch didn't give it out, because there's been many times that we've been sent to stuff that we were like, eh, this is nothing, this is going to be a book and, ah, this is nothing this is going to be a bull crap, and it turned out to be.
Speaker 3:The worst thing that's ever happened, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and sometimes it doesn't. There's a few exceptions to that high call volume rule, one of which, of course, with the interstate. Like I said, if you start getting a bunch of calls, something's up. And we started getting this call, a series of calls, something's, something's up, yeah, and we started getting this um call, a series of calls, probably starting around down around the way station heading north, about this couple in this car and the way everybody's describing it and multiple people are describing it much the same way it's a rolling domestic. You know, this guy's riding down the road, he's beating on this woman. She's, you know, flailing around and beating back and trying to defend herself and the the. The difficult part for us is and we all know this because we've we've been there and worked it that getting somebody to the interstate to be able to intercept at the interstate speed and everything like that.
Speaker 4:Something to move in. Yeah, it's difficult to do.
Speaker 2:You've got to figure out who to call, right. So we get this call, I give it out and, like I said, they're coming north, heading toward the 38. And just so happens I mean, everything lines up perfect City unit gets on the ramp there. They see the car go by about halfway down the ramp. They get up right behind it, light it up, it pulls over and I'm like I'm feeling like the king of the world.
Speaker 2:yeah, you know, because that never happened nailed this totally intercepted this one, and that's such a rarity, and so I'm sitting there and finally, I can't remember who it was that answered the call. And they get back on the radio and they say London, this isn't going to be a domestic at all. Really, what's you know?
Speaker 3:what's happened? Yeah, it was one of them 10-4 call dispatch. Yeah, what's happened? Yeah, it was one of them 10-4 call dispatch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so it turns out that this couple was both of them were hearing impaired, oh, and they were having a spirited conversation. That's what they were doing down the road, but everybody that saw it was convinced that they were just beating the brakes off one another and that's how you know and when you deal with the public.
Speaker 4:and they're not wrong to call but perception is a lot.
Speaker 3:Working up at the deaf school, you see. I mean they could be loud or they could be very quiet. The difference is they could sign across who knows? I mean is they could sign across who knows? I mean they can sign across a long way where we couldn't even talk, but it was funny when they were trying to hide stuff, though it was funny and sadly, some of the worst, and this probably isn't right. I have worked domestics with deaf or hard of hearing and they would be at it and sadly I'd just turn them around and try to hear right, I mean just so they wouldn't.
Speaker 1:I mean, if they were looking at each other, they weren't engaging.
Speaker 3:I was like just turn around. I don't know if that's the right way.
Speaker 4:I mean you're supposed to separate the parties, so you did.
Speaker 3:It was at Walmart and it was causing a big fuss. I was like you face me and you face that way. You had to turn them. It was different, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Walmart is just one of those places where so many goofy calls start at Walmart.
Speaker 3:I remember going there one time getting a call on a shoplifter, walking in there talking to somebody and finding like a half ounce of meth on the shelf, and they're like. I was like is this yours? You can get anything at Walmart.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Half ounce of methamphetamines in the toy aisle. I was like weird stuff man.
Speaker 2:One of my favorite Walmart calls still involves Flash and the lady that tased herself on the way out to the car.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, huh, you and Roby were in on that one that was the pursuit. That was the pursuit that went all the way up to EB. Yeah, and so this you finally got in a pursuit. That was my first pursuit. Yeah, all right, yeah, and I got to work it. I got the privilege of working this.
Speaker 3:I didn't hear it for sure.
Speaker 4:So we got over there. It's just a normal shoplifter call. We get talking to loss prevention, which are usually I mean, they're usually pretty good at their jobs there. They know, you know, we've got a rapport. What they say is usually pretty accurate. So they come out and they're like she tried to tase us and she's running that way. So I take off towards the car, I get to her car and she's just getting in the car. Well, I'm like well, I'm going to have to rip her out of this car. I don't get a chance. She just pulls out. So I was like well, she sparked a taser at them. And that was at the time that we had just changed to that policy where you had to have felonies and robbery. So you know it constitutes.
Speaker 1:I holler at.
Speaker 4:Roby and Roby's like. You want me to pursue, you want me to back off, but she's not stopping and he's like yeah, hammer on so we get after it.
Speaker 4:I mean it turns out to a mess. I mean this poor woman and I feel sorry the most for her son because when we got we pursue her all the way out to her house in EB and I mean we come to an abrupt stop and then she's met with me and Roby, weapons drawn, yelling, screaming. You know how it goes. I'm sure there was things said that probably shouldn't have been said in front of her.
Speaker 4:That your mother would not appreciate. No, yeah, she'd be coming at me with barso. And then we look over and there's an eight-year-old out on the porch. And that's not a good representation of seeing butt. That wasn't her first rodeo either, yeah. But, from the other side of it. I'm sure I sounded, I'm sure. I got all happy as I've been pursued.
Speaker 2:But now the great thing, and the thing that he's failing to tell you is, is that what she was there to shoplift that day were the makings of a birthday party for her kid, oh my gosh. So when Flash finds this out and sees what's going on, he offers to pay for the stuff that she took that was going to be for this kid's birthday party. You remember their response?
Speaker 4:I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2:They basically told you to get bent, really yeah.
Speaker 4:Man. Yeah man, yeah, well, you know you know, yeah, yeah, I can't remember.
Speaker 3:I do remember the birthday cake though, because it was, it was part of when we had searched the vehicle I wonder if that was you know, I know there's been many times we'd have somebody, some stranded here in london like legit stranded trying to get home, just could not afford that bus ticket or whatever. That's untelling how much money we've and it's not a brag or anything. We just try to know honestly. People knew how you guys up there we've come over there about man anybody. Oh, we'll help you out on this. You know it was always. We all is a team.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we were well, and anybody that's in it for the right reasons, doing this type of profession, is gonna have that kind of mentality. You are, you it's. People always take it the wrong way when you know it gets bent to where you work. For me you're. You know you're a public servant, but but you are, I mean, and that's the whole. You're not a slave, but you are a servant in the fact that you're there to serve the community and try and better the community.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you just want to try to be, you want to make a difference. Yeah, that's all. I didn't get into this line of work to take everybody to jail. I swear I didn't. And get into this line of work to take everybody to jail, I swear I didn't. I didn't take that many, maybe a couple thousand.
Speaker 4:I enjoy taking people to jail that deserve going to jail.
Speaker 3:I think back in 20 years. If I averaged 20 months, especially my first part, I'm like I took a lot of people to jail. I really did.
Speaker 2:Some of that was my fault, because if somebody was being particularly annoying or I really did, yeah Well, some of that was my fault because you know I would, you know if somebody was being particularly annoying or belligerent or something like that, I would scour the earth to find a warrant that had their name on it.
Speaker 3:We appreciate it. How many people call and just harass? I remember y'all getting you know we'd be in there. Somebody just call and call and call and just giving you all down the road. I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 2:I was like how do?
Speaker 3:y'all have the patience that y'all have.
Speaker 2:Christmas in dispatch looks like this the caller has a warrant. That's Christmas in dispatch. Yeah, you know, when somebody's calling and they're running their mouth and they're being belligerent, they're not asking for help, they're demanding that you do what they want you to do. And there's a big difference. You know, if somebody needs assistance and they're needing help, you want to get them help, absolutely. But if somebody's you know, if somebody's mad at their boyfriend and they're just wanting him out of the house and they're wanting you to come clean it, you know, take the trash out for them and they're being belligerent about it, then that's a whole different matter. So, like I said, I became very adept at finding, you know, finding those eight-year-old traffic warrants for FDA you know, year old traffic warrants for FDA.
Speaker 4:You know there was. There was two times in my career that I got to step in and uh and and change the outcome of situations like that. There was one, it was me, I was, I was on night shift. Then, thank you, it was me and Jake and somebody else, I can't remember, but this woman kept calling in and I don't know if you were working dispatch that night or not, but she kept calling and kept calling and kept calling and we finally We'd go out there to the call. She wouldn't come to the door. So we finally talked to her on the phone and told her if she called back that she'd be going to jail for harassing communications. Well, she called back. So we load up and we go, can't get her to come to the door so we have to call the landlord. The landlord calls her and tells her that he needs to get in. So he tricked her. He's not even there. She opens the door and Jake just snatches her up, just says the door and was just straight to jail.
Speaker 3:Fun times. Yeah, I think I know you've had some of the tough calls, but I want to get in some of the funniest, craziest fun calls that. You've had some of the tough calls, but I want to get into some of the funniest, craziest fun calls that you've ever had. Well, because we try to keep it funny. Yeah, I know we're a little serious tonight, but it's the appreciation I have for dispatch.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:On those hard calls. I just wanted to thank you all and you're representing tonight. I know we plan on having some other dispatchers on, but definitely wanted to say thank you and all that.
Speaker 2:Well, I can say that, you know, for me some of the funnier ones came as a result of the fact that, you know, I was a lot older when I came to emergency services than most guys are. So most folks, you know, are coming right out of high school or something like that pretty early on and haven't had a lot of life experience. I think I was 45 when I came to work at Dispatch. So I've been around, had four kids at that time, had a couple of them halfway raised and, yeah, um, you know, had seen a few things and had had some life experience. So, you know you, you don't come like, what do I do with this, with, with everything? Um, we had, uh, one more, what some of the, some of the most and people don't believe me when I when I tell this but uh, people are calling all the time for us to send out the police to make their kids mind, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, it happens all the time. Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 2:My kid's talking back, my kid won't listen to me, my kid won't get up and go to school and you just get those calls all the time. I just want them to come out here and scare them and I'm like that's not what we do. I mean, do you want to go to breath county? We can, we can arrange that.
Speaker 4:but you can't even arrange that until they're a certain age. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:So I get this call one morning and it's it's just absolutely pouring the rain. And uh, this lady calls in and it's it's fairly early morning, probably about 6, 30 quarter to 7, so right beginning of our shift, and uh, she's wanting us to uh send, send an officer out or deputy out had been out in the county. And uh, I'm like, well, what's? You know what's going on. She's like her son is in middle school age and he doesn't want to take a shower to get ready to go to school and he's throwing a fit and he's throwing himself a little tantrum and he's ran outside. Well, she locked him out on the you know outside. Well, it's, I mean, by time it's coming to the gully washer and she's like, well, what do I do?
Speaker 2:He's beating on the door. Should I let him in? I said I'd throw him a bar of soap out and then I'd let him in, give him about 10 or 15 minutes and then let him in, you know problem solved, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, you know, and there's because it's those rare moments that you actually get to say what you want to say. I know, you know there's so many of those calls that we get, where you want to say certain things and you just can't. So you have to be as diplomatic as you can be about it and move on. But on one like that, I'm like just throw him a bar of soap and let him ladder it up out there.
Speaker 3:I would call Stuart, derek and Daryl or whoever assistant chief was or whoever. If I saw them I'd be like, hey, if you get a call and they say I said that I did, so I ain't going to lie, I was like if it was off the wall something crazy. But yep, I did say it.
Speaker 2:So just FYI, and that was kind of our. You know I ain't going to lie about it, I know for myself that was always kind of my philosophy on it too. You know, if somebody calls in and complains, this is what happened. If they don't call in, don't look any further into it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was right, exactly, and that was the thing I was like you know, just I'll take my punishment if they call, but here's what it was said and I promise you I said it.
Speaker 4:They didn't even ask. They didn't even ask me if I said it. They didn't even ask. They didn't even ask me if I said it. They just knew I did.
Speaker 1:They could have asked me, you probably wrote a memo about it.
Speaker 2:I had one that and this lady was being like really generous, she was just at her wits end because she had this probably two-year-old, maybe three-year-old, who was in a forward-facing car seat and he had figured out how to work the little tension release button at the bottom of the car seat oh yeah, so he could get himself out of the plane. Oh yeah, so she's afraid. One, that somebody's going to call in on her for having an unrestrained child because he's gotten himself out oh yeah. And two, that he's going to get hurt. But she's like I just don't know what to do, what you know. And I said here's what I want you to do. I said set that at tension where he can't get out, where it's as tight as it needs to be, and then that slack at the end of it, tie that in a knot. I said because when he pushes that button and tries to push out on his strap, it won't release she's like.
Speaker 3:I never thought of that Brilliant yeah.
Speaker 2:But, like I said, it's things like that, little things like that it's being able to give that outside.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're not stressed about it, so you're able to think outside the box, you can detach and be able to insert some wisdom into people that are like oh, some people are just dumb, Some people just can't think about it.
Speaker 2:Some of them are just so frustrated and they're so in. When you're in the middle of things that are going on like that, it's hard to think clearly. Yeah, so a lot of what we try to do is bring clarity to a situation that somebody else is struggling to do. You know, do that same thing on their own. Yeah, one of the better ones that I had, talking about trying to bring clarity in the middle of a, you know, crazy situation. There was a lady that had bought this car I believe it was a Toyotaota, but don't quote me on that but she had, uh, she had bought it and the accelerator was sticking on her. Well, the dealership, I think, was in richmond and she said, well, and the the dealership told her said, well, you know, if you, uh, if you get it up here, we'll take a look at it, kind of thing. You know, just kind of blowing her off, being jerks about it.
Speaker 2:So she gets up her and a couple of friends of hers. They're going up north on 75. They get up probably about the 45 accelerator sticks and it will not. You know it will not. You know it's not. And of course, in these newer model cars you don't have the old cable driven accelerator anymore. You've got sensors. So the sensor's bad and it's holding her wide open.
Speaker 2:You know, and she's calling and she's freaking out and panicking. She's like I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I'm gonna get run over, somebody's gonna get killed. And I said okay. I said here's what I want you to do. I said put on your hazard lights. And I said I want you to work over into the right lane, into the slow lane. And so she's with me so far. You know I'm. I'm talking to her about like I'm talking to you guys right now. I said I want you to work over into the to-hand lane and I said have you done that? She said yeah, I'm over here. And I said okay, I said here's what I want you to do. I said when I tell you I want you to shift your vehicle into neutral and then apply your brake and ease over onto the shoulder. And she's like no, no, no, that won't work. So I'm like listen, this will work.
Speaker 1:It'll shift out.
Speaker 2:It'll shift out, it'll get you in neutral and then you can kill it. You can turn the motor off and then coast to a stop. You can apply the brake, coast to a stop. So she's trying to work herself up to it. She's like I just don't know. I don't know, I don't know. I'm like you know we're gonna have to do this because you're gonna get out of my range here pretty quick yeah and I said, in order for me to talk you through this, we need to.
Speaker 2:We need to do this now because you know, once, once they cross that I don't know what the magic is, but once they cross that bridge there, about the 50 and a half going north, cell service just goes away.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah you know, and so, or at least the, the service, you know the repeater, the repeater that comes back to us. So she, finally, she's, she's worked herself up to it and I said, okay, are you ready? She said yes. I said okay, shifted into neutral, okay, got into neutral. I said okay, now turn the ignition off. Turns the ignition off and I hear, ah, I'm thinking, oh, this is going to be bad. She's gone off the bridge, this is going to be bad. And then, finally, she stops screaming and goes it worked.
Speaker 2:I've got what seemed like 60 to 120 seconds of this. I'm planning my own exit on how this is all going to go down. What I'm going to say on the stand yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4:if you've ever watched Bob's Burgers, you know what I'm talking about. Oh yeah, there's an episode where he's trying to teach his daughter how to drive and they're driving through an open parking lot With one car, with one car in it and they're like 100 yards away and she's going uh, and he's like, okay, you can turn, turn, and they're 50 yards at turn, you can do uh.
Speaker 3:And she just finally pow, so that situation right there I couldn't imagine, because you must have been close to the big. I mean, that bridge is high, yeah, so I my first thought was, like she's off, you're hearing her and again.
Speaker 1:That's that goes back to that old you know 1930s, sitting by the radio with no moving pictures.
Speaker 2:I have no idea what's going actually going on. I have no idea where she actually is. I can see in general, yeah, because I've still got her on the 911 line. So it's continuing to ping, but it only cycles every so often, you know. So, knowing exactly where I don't have a moving dot, oh, man, you know what's weird?
Speaker 3:we could be sitting in dispatch center, the three of us, or say you had three guys working, three guys girls, and the PD was up there and all of a sudden the call would come in the next thing. You know, somebody's getting out a book. Okay, here's how to deliver that baby.
Speaker 1:And while we're just sitting there, all calm and cool.
Speaker 3:we're like what is going on? Oh, this one's having a baby. They can't get to the hospital, they're in the baby.
Speaker 4:I'm like.
Speaker 1:Or having to tell somebody to do CPR. It's cool and it's calm, or yeah, or tell somebody how to do CPR.
Speaker 3:I don't know how many times that's happened while we were in there, just calm like y'all. Have done it a thousand times and probably had a lot of them had. I'm like man. You should have saw me the first time I did CPR. I'm like for real.
Speaker 4:I'm like this ain't the practice, dude. We quit letting Joey do CPR. He was like 0 for 4 there for a little while. Bless his heart, quit touching these people, I think he finally got back on.
Speaker 3:He did get one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's tough, man, just because you can't perform it, you're having to talk to somebody who's in a absolute panic, yeah, on how I'm doing life saving, trying to calm them down and and talk them through that and it's always difficult. You know some of the and I know this isn't the the lighter side of things, but you know some of the more difficult calls that we have to make in those instances are the ones where we know that the patient is not going to respond to CPR but the family member is so distraught that if we don't give them some hope until EMS can get there, that you know we're just going to lose them, right, we're going to lose the caller. You know that they're just going to have a. So if you can give somebody at least the sense that they did all that they could do, you know there's some closure there and people don't think about this, but there's some closure there that we can give to folks just by doing something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've never thought about that, because people won't. Yeah, there's some sadness there. There's some grief that people won't. There's some sadness there. There's some grief that's going on. There's some panic, even though you know.
Speaker 2:Blaming yourself. You were there and you tried to do something or you couldn't do something and if you know that you tried and you did all that you could do, somebody's walking you through it. Most folks can live with that and that's kind of the attitude that we take toward it is that we'll spend the time and we'll stay there with them and do that until emergency services can get there. To give them that that's a good point. To give them that that's a good point.
Speaker 4:I'll say we had an incident a while back with my daughter and I won't say which dispatcher it was, but she deserves kudos because she'd done excellent. But my daughter had seizures and she was eaten and had gotten choked. Had a seizure, got choked. We didn't catch it immediately, turned around and she was purple, not not breathing, lifeless, face down on her. I mean it's awful, worst thing I've ever experienced in my life. I've seen, you know, I've seen fatalities, gunshot. I mean just, you know, that was the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life.
Speaker 4:So I've got her doing what I was trying to do. You know, clear airways, clear pathways, getting ready, and I'm to the point where I'm getting ready to start doing cpr and I had tasked my wife with calling 9-1-1 and she's hysterical. So I know everything and I'm hearing her in the back and it's like everything's coming out of her mouth. I was like they can't understand. You I'm not saying that, but you know it's like they can't understand. But somehow whoever's on the other side of it and I mean I know who it was but pieced it together and then got out who I, you know, got enough information to who I was and then knew, you know, from there and then, took it upon herself to get, and they got an ambulance there quick I think the cool so it was that's, that's cool.
Speaker 3:That's awesome and she's good.
Speaker 4:She's good now Great yeah.
Speaker 3:One of the coolest, I think the dispatchers somehow can speak crazy. They can hear it, or they can speak panic. Yeah, it's like a language that they've developed, or they can understand. It's like learning elfish or something. Because you say, because I remember calling in on on on something in my neighborhood and absolutely could not and everybody knows where I could not get out my address or the road behind me and you know the road well, yeah, I could not think of that road. I'm like just come to my house and keep going. You'll see somebody out there waving and they were like who is this?
Speaker 1:I'm like oh my gosh, you know it's just one of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know the color you're talking about.
Speaker 3:And that was a devastator too I well, I got, I was sitting there on a day off and got thought I'd lock the door and somebody just walked in on me and I was like what? And he's like you know, and I'm like what. So I mean I went I was seriously sitting down to eat like a sandwich, so I was at a zero, you were at black. I was in condition. I was nothing Like I'm happy as a lark, just sitting here getting ready to eat lunch and getting ready to watch a baseball game or something was on to having to go sprinting down out of my row and like trying to call my wife. I mean, I'd done this at this point probably 19 years and couldn't get out for who I was or where I lived. And I mean people are like you know. Finally, as soon as I said my name, they was like oh yeah, ok yeah, what happened? You know, I'm like, oh, it's freaked out. I just went in a pure freak out.
Speaker 4:Well, it's different. It's different when it happens to you. So it's, you know it's. You can deal with somebody else's emergency all day long and as calm as you can be.
Speaker 2:And that's the thing that my wife said. You know, she's she's been a nurse for years and uh, back in July of 09, I'd had a incident at home, uh, before we ever moved to London, and uh, my airway had gotten gotten obstructed in my sleep and I was out. I was gone, wow, and you know she was doing what she could do, calling 911. We're there by ourselves. The kids had spent the night with the family member and stuff, and she told people on the backside of that. She said you know that all of her nursing when it was hers went out the window. You know it, just you know. And and I think that's the thing is that you know we can. We can be calm, cool and collected on anybody else's behalf sometimes but our own yeah, yeah, that's, I mean it's.
Speaker 4:yeah, in our incident I was I mean it took me a minute to be like okay, what do I do? Well, you know, what do I do, what do I do you know? And then it's, there's a moment of panic, and then you've got to overcome that, to get Scary when it's your own, and that's where training comes in. But still, yeah, there's still that moment of panic and time, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's like I couldn't imagine dispatching during the tornadoes that happened in East Bernstead. Yeah, and I was in them. I was up in East Bernstead at my mom and dad's and heard it. I mean my dad was like you know, lights flicker. I mean it sounded like exactly like a train, you know a freight train, coming. You're like whoa, and then we just got a flicker and we went outside. I was like huh, you know, went on up the road. I couldn't imagine, though, dispatching the chaos that was going on in that moment, because, you know, you set up your command center, I think was at East Burnstead Fire at the time, and they were all victims of this. I was like how does that work? Why can't we use somebody else? It's just weird. The thought pattern is like man, half the guys that are on this that are setting up command or involved are victims. I'm like man, that's a freaky feeling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean and I'll argue all day long with anybody on this that the folks that we've had over the last several years, moreover, at the dispatch center here, are some of the best anywhere. Oh yeah, you know, professional, I would agree with that. And you know and I'm not saying we're like every agency we never, yeah, professional, I would agree with that. I'm not saying we're like every agency. We're never. About a thousand. We've done pretty well. Yeah, probably above average, I would say, especially for our area. That's just who they are, they're professional. And that's just who they are. They're professional when it's time to hit the radios and hit the phones, man, there's nobody else that you'd want beside you.
Speaker 3:It is amazing to see the flip from chilling out Because there is a special night shift, there was a weird boredom and day shift on the weekend. Sunday mornings were fun for us because we was up there cutting up and somebody was cooking Timmy or Shannon, somebody was cooking.
Speaker 4:Playing cards, doing something, something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know how many. I remember there for a while it was around Halloween, somebody in there?
Speaker 3:we'd watch the entire Halloween series, or Friday the 13th or whatever, yeah, over a month or two, whatever it was, but it was just like all of a sudden that call would come out and they switch, boom, and I'm sure we do it too. But you go from and it's training, yeah, and knowing what's going on. And then the teamwork because somebody and I don't know how, because I try to listen to how you all hear each other, I don't know if it's through the headphone, I don't know how but you could hear somebody with your headphones on doing something and you're like I got it. I got it and I'm like that amazed me. Yeah, because you were doing something, maybe on a different call, that could reach over and help that person by looking something up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the amount of multitasking ability is impressive. Yeah, the amount of multitasking ability is impressive. Yeah, we do it on the other side of the radio on a different way. But it's not that way. We're not.
Speaker 3:I know my limitations Right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I could never do dispatch.
Speaker 3:I could never do it For one.
Speaker 4:I don't have the patience.
Speaker 3:I felt like I was a decent cop, but there's no way I could do it. I am not Subpar cop. Okay, I could not. There's no way that I could do it on that side of the radio.
Speaker 1:A.
Speaker 3:I would want to go see the results themselves, especially coming, and I knew guys I mean several guys Gary Goob, some of these other guys that would come in there and deal I don't know, patrick, patrick still would do a shift every now. And then I'm like man, don't you want to just go out the door and go take care of that?
Speaker 2:he's like absolutely I do you know, but when that, and that's why they left that seat to go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, get behind the wheel, but every now and then you know they pull a shift up there and hang out. So so, yeah, what else you got? I know you got some other funny ones. We can't be so serious on this.
Speaker 4:That's not our no that's not our MO, no.
Speaker 2:Speaking of one of those ones that you know. You had to wait for the story, the visuals afterwards, the visuals afterwards. So we're working nights and there was a single vehicle 46 in front of Cumberland Valley Bank, right next to Circle K. Now that is about the straightest piece of road that you could possibly be on?
Speaker 4:Is this involving?
Speaker 2:a minivan. I can't remember what type of vehicle it was, but it does involve no pants and a sex toy. I worked that one. I thought you did.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I worked that one.
Speaker 3:How come you always end up with sex toys. I have no idea.
Speaker 4:They followed me through my whole career.
Speaker 3:And. I'm the type of person that like I was always like a fist fight. He gets sex toys. That's weird if I got into a fight.
Speaker 4:It was somebody chasing me with a fist fight. No, but I'm, and it's I don't know. I'm the type of person like I would never go into the Purple Palace to purchase anything, so why they followed me? I mean, and I it didn't.
Speaker 2:It's like a magnet, but you know we're sitting there and we start getting calls and several calls. You know, about this, uh, about this wreck. And of course, when somebody tells you, well, somebody's wrecked into the, uh, the parking lot of the bank, okay, and like I said, it's just, it's as straight and flat as a football field right through there, I mean you would have to be trying to roll over a vehicle, to roll one over there, but everybody, you know. So my immediate thought is okay, somebody's ran off the road, you know whatever, maybe hit the sign, what. And then it's like no, we're getting, you know, reports that this vehicle's on its top, yeah, and I'm like, okay, you know, so we get everybody headed down that way. And of course, you know PD's not far away, so guys get there pretty quick and probably before fire and EMS ever even had a chance to get on the scene, yeah, and so there's a lot of radio silence, which is really weird for a call like this. Yes, you know usually.
Speaker 3:Yeah, usually, somebody on top they're calling for like hey, where's?
Speaker 2:I can fill in the rest of that.
Speaker 4:So we get there and there's two telephone poles. I mean this is an impressive wreck. There's two telephone poles and, like he said, it's a straight shot. But there's two telephone poles. I mean this is an impressive wreck. There's two telephone poles and, like he said, it's a straight shot. But there's two telephone poles there and somehow this woman has not only wrecked but she has flipped her van completely over on its top goal, posted right between the two telephone poles.
Speaker 4:So we're like, you know, we're rolling up and we've got the same thoughts as how in the world does somebody wreck like this? I mean, how does this even happen? And we get there and we can't find the driver. So we're getting out and we're walking around and one of the other officers, we get to the other side and he goes what is that? And I'm looking and we're just kind of standing beside each other.
Speaker 4:I mean there's a female there and she's bent over, she has no pants on and she's picking up stuff that had fallen out, you know cups and mugs and things that had fallen out of the van. She's okay. I mean you know she's physically visibly okay but she's not hurt. But she doesn't have any pants on, doesn't have any undergarments on, and at first we thought, okay, maybe she just hadn't caught up to the grooming standards of the ages. But no, this woman had a tail that was protruding from a marital aid. Oh my gosh, that was inserted. Oh, oh, my gosh, that was inserted. Oh, oh, my gosh. Yeah, so we just kind of and probably longer than we should have, we kind of just like a train wreck, I mean, it was just like, hmm, all right, I guess we'll go gather information now. You know, so Craziest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 4:Well, we know what, why she's great well, we can assume you got there well the conversations afterwards you know how that goes. Our first thoughts was, and it was about the time that OnlyFans was getting popular. So we was like, yeah, that's probably probably watch that later. Not as good as you'd think it was getting popular.
Speaker 3:So we was like, yeah, that's probably Probably watch that later.
Speaker 1:Not as good as you'd think.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:That's crazy stuff. I'd almost forgot about that one.
Speaker 3:You tried, you tried to forget. Thank you for bringing that back in.
Speaker 4:There's not enough bleach in the world to completely erase that one yeah that's hilarious, hilarious.
Speaker 3:I know you got something else there's gotta be something else we can't eat.
Speaker 2:On that one well, I mean, there was, there was, there was the, the keystone cops foot pursuit that again, I think, started at walmart and this one was involved in one man. Danny, no, this one was uh was Dylan and Joey and Matt.
Speaker 4:Matt may have ended up over there boo, I think might have been there on that one too, really.
Speaker 2:I think. I think, was he there was he could have been there with Joe, I think it may have been.
Speaker 4:I think was he there. He couldn't have been there with Joey. No, I think it may have been.
Speaker 2:I think Spanky was there Maybe.
Speaker 3:Or no, joey might have been at the sheriff's office, maybe I don't know. Let's hear this but anyway.
Speaker 2:So we get. You know, typical shoplifter call there at Walmart. Well, apparently, as soon as they get 97 and get up there in the parking lot, this guy decides that he's going to take off over the hill and run up behind Tractor Supply and of course it's just an old, you know, it's a parking lot for a while and then once you start up the hill it's just a rough goat path kind of field back there and there's a fence up there. Well, dylan's kind of leading the charge on this foot pursuit and he's running after this guy and trying to catch up with him and I guess at one point he 46s out, takes a header and the guy just starts giggling at him.
Speaker 2:He stops running so he can laugh at Dylan. Well, it makes Dylan mad. So he gets up. He's starting to run at him that much harder and the guy gets. I think at this point he's at a straddle of that woven wire fence and Dylan takes a header again and the guy stops on top of the fence. Oh my gosh. And they, they finally end up. Somebody came from the whitley street side, you know, down that little cul-de-sac where they've got those lots for sale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was running up that way and they ended up heading him off over there, but uh that's classic and we had somebody and I can't remember now who it was that was I mean, it was total Keystone cops because you know they were following around and trying to get. And somebody came around the corner there by the tobacco store where you go in behind the building and went to get out of his cruiser and 46'd out on his cruiser and 46 down on his own door.
Speaker 4:Oh my god, I remember hearing that story, yeah that's hilarious, that's good stuff I'm telling you if we had recordings of just all all the stupid things that ended up happening, because you're trying your hardest to get to your buddies fast, to get this, and then nothing ever. I mean it's just comical.
Speaker 3:I'd like to write. You know, you were just talking about your.
Speaker 1:My poop book.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I could write probably an entire book on stuff that happened at walmart. Oh yeah, I mean just craziness that walmart brings. It's like this town is awesome, great little city. And then there's walmart.
Speaker 3:It's like its own little I don't know it's weird one time me, a female officer that's still employed and lover to death. We were at Walmart looking for a shoplift. That ran outside and you could see the storm coming back towards the west. We're walking in the parking lot looking, looking, and I look back over at her and her hair is standing straight up like static. I said we got to go. Yeah, we're going to get hit by lightning Pow.
Speaker 3:That lightning struck right in there. I was like holy cow. I was like she's like what I was like. Your hair was standing up like one of those Tesla machines.
Speaker 4:I was like holy cow.
Speaker 3:I was like thank goodness you were here. You kept us from getting struck. It was wild. I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 2:It was crazy stuff One of the funnier ones that actually didn't involve the police department one time. You guys know, and we've all got this strange relationship with fire and rescue and those guys, they're just wired different. You know, those are the guys.
Speaker 2:if, if, uh, if you guys listening, run across them and you don't know that they're with fire and rescue, they'll tell you within the first three seconds yeah but they, they've usually they're the ones with the radios on, you know way too loud, going through the store and you know stuff like that and they do, they love to listen to their radio traffic, you know, on their RDOs or whatever. And we had a call out at Bush Elementary and one of the staff called and said hey, we need some help. We've got three kittens that have gotten down the storm drain and we don't have the equipment to be able to unbolt it, to be able to take the grade off to get them out. We could reach them but we just don't have the equipment to do it.
Speaker 2:And I said well, let me give a call to, you know, the chief out there at Bushfire and see if they can get somebody to come over and help you. So I called him up because usually stuff like that you know the cat and tree stuff we'll make phone calls. We won't give that out as radio traffic, you know, right away. We don't want to set the world on fire just because something that's really not an emergency but somebody needs assistance. So I called the chief or I forget who it was that responded and they said yeah, we can get the equipment, we'll go out there. He said go ahead and drop tones and give that out over the radio. Okay, you know, there's, there's, there's my eye roll for all of you for all you listeners out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they felt it they saw it and so, uh, so I did you know, and so I give it out. And I give it out and I said you know, there's, uh, there's three kittens that are are, uh, stuck in the storm drain. They need equipment to to be able to get the grade off. Uh, it's bush elementary there in the, in the pickup lane. So literally 30 seconds after I give that call out, I get a call from chief of the rescue squad. Don't you think that the rescue ever been paid you after that? First, what are you talking about? I mean, I understand it's technically confined space, but he's like no, you've got three kids in a storm drain, we need to be going out. And I was like no, three kittens, yeah.
Speaker 4:Meow Baby cats Meow, meow, meow.
Speaker 2:And you could just hear the air go out of him when I tell him he was like, oh yeah, and I got the he was amped up to rip you. Yeah, he was, you know, because they love that. But I got the benefit of hearing later through his daughter that his wife looked at him and said we just let Shannon do his job. Nah, that's awesome, good.
Speaker 4:That reminded me, though, of a story where a dispatcher got to actually come to my rescue. It was at McDonald's he's not working there anymore but Austin and not really to my rescue, but I didn't have anything else to do. A car had hit a coyote on the interstate and got off at that exit at the McDonald's, and it's like shift change. I was like, yeah, I gotta see this, because it was stuck in the grill of the car. Yeah, yes, oh, so I get there. I was like, ah, well, I'll go, you know, pull it out and throw it off in the woods or whatever. No, I get there and it's still alive. Oh no, not only is it still alive, but it is very pissed off, I'd say.
Speaker 3:It doesn't work when pissed off hits the couch yeah.
Speaker 2:Stuck in a grill. By that point I was supervising that shift and Austin was like you want me to go get it. I said you know, it's not that busy, go get it.
Speaker 4:I'm glad Because we had called animal control and they were like they asked what the situation was and I was like, nope, good luck, godspeed yeah wow.
Speaker 4:And so I was like, all right, so I don't have anything. So I ended up, austin got there and he's like, well, we could throw it in the back of my truck. He had one of those tonneau covers. I was like that's a good idea, we'll do that. But how do we get it out? Cause I ain't touching this thing. And uh, so I ended up taking the string off of my stop sticks, making a noose out of it, running it through they, it through.
Speaker 4:They were doing construction work on the mcdonald's. So I stole a piece of pvc pipe, ran the news through as a pole, hooked it around the the coyote, jerked him out and then we checked him into the back of austin's truck. So we're looking at it and I was like, well, it kind of acts like it's not doing so well, so maybe it'll just die. So we're, you know we're we close it up, close up, tailgate it's. You know it hunched up in the back of the in one of the corners and I was like, well, I'll go get his information and you just hang out and we'll figure out. It was too close to put it out of. You know, I couldn't dispatch it there in the parking lot of mcdonald's couldn't shoot up that guy's grill either.
Speaker 3:No, and you all would have missed, because we already know about groundhogs. Yeah, point blank. I might have been right.
Speaker 4:Maybe, maybe. So I go get the rest of the information and all that. And everybody's sitting there amazed at what they just saw, because it was your genius of my MacGyver skills, yes, absolutely. And uh, I was like, well, I got all, got all his information and got him back on the road and he's out. So I said, well, now what do we do? And austin's like I don't know. I was like that's in your trucks your problem.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I gotta go. I don't see so shift summer.
Speaker 1:I gotta go. So I was like well, maybe we. That's in your truck, it's your problem. Yeah, I got to go. I got to sleep my shift's over, I got to go.
Speaker 4:So I was like well, maybe we can get it out and just throw it over in the woods. Maybe it's dead by now. So we open it up. Oh no, it's not dead, it's just pacing in circles in the back of his truck. Oh Okay, he said we can release it over here on the hill going up to the church and maybe it'll just go on. So we open the tailgate and we run away. It won't come out. It won't come out at all. So Austin ends up in his genius.
Speaker 1:Throws it in reverse, hits about 30-mile there and slams on the brakes.
Speaker 3:Shoots that coyote straight out of there, it just hits its feet running, though, really. Yeah, I wonder if you would have got bit, if you would have turned into like a what would that be called? Like a were-coyote, I don't know, that'd be funny, maybe it did.
Speaker 3:Man I've seen it is impossible to be in your all's mind on some of the crazy calls that go that you give us and then not hear, like the radio silence for a minute. You're like I gotta know what these idiots are out there doing with this, I could imagine, because you're come back and tell us what happened.
Speaker 4:Well, I mean, you can't get out on a call and it be something simple, You've got to try and solve it. I mean that's.
Speaker 3:Or even more, like you've not heard anything from the PD, you've not given out, you've not dispatched anything, and then you hear well, that's you know. Roby was notorious for just saying oh, that's stupid looking, or you know something on the radio, something that we saw.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because we'd be following each other.
Speaker 3:Well, did you see that?
Speaker 4:Yeah, what did y'all? Say I know it, and so night shift we've talked about this quite a bit was a lot more lax on the radio traffic than day shift was because all the brass went out to smack your pee-pee for saying something you shouldn't have done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the professionalism usually dropped. Well, it was more slang language. Yeah, it's like, you know, like I was saying earlier.
Speaker 4:You know, if I want something repeated instead of you know, instead of saying the 10 code, I'd say can I get that one more again? You know I'd pop off and be like, or you'd say, well, I didn't enjoy that. You'd say something like, yeah, I was against it from the beginning.
Speaker 2:I was against it and there was for it.
Speaker 4:Oh, man, or you'd get, I think, my favorite phrase and it's like Morse code, but I think my favorite phrase that ever came out of dispatch is ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am ma'am ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 3:Or somebody like Paul. Paul would get fired up on somebody. What did he say? Oh, he just, I just they'd get fired up. You're like there's no reason to get that torqued up over that. Was there Torqued up over that, wasn't it? They're all right, they'll be all right.
Speaker 4:It's funny.
Speaker 3:We had some good time, man. I've been in there one time and there was a storm coming through I guess it might have been a little tornado or something. That kind of hit out at Levi Jackson when me and Hump was working. Me and Doug were working I can't remember who.
Speaker 3:I was out, I was in dispatch and that dang, that siren going off when you're in the back lot there, is deafening. For some reason they were trying to get the siren on. We had Tornado 1 in the head. You trying to get the siren on, turn it on. Like we had a tornado warning to hit. You need to get it out there. For some reason it just would not hit. So they were over there panicking on that and Doug was out at Levi Jackson. I guess he had an uncle. Somebody was out there camping and he was in the middle of it. He was like spinning around, went off the Oz or something. I don't know where he was. I was like he said why did you?
Speaker 3:They were over there trying to get the thing off to warn everybody Like, hey, tornado, why did that? Hey, I'm in a tornado. I was just freaked out. I'm like guys, I don't know what to do right now, but it was just weird to see, like when stuff didn't work. Oh man, because the job and that's another job that nobody really knows is their dispatch has got to warn. They're giving out a storm, like, hey, severe storms coming, and that's freaky too, too, because they're stuck in there, which I I don't know if it's tornado proof in there or not, but I know they have to sit off the, the siren and all that stuff in there. It's freaky in there when it happens. I've been in there it's it's wild stuff.
Speaker 4:Goespatch is also the first person you should call when your electric goes out.
Speaker 2:Apparently that's it.
Speaker 2:That's a thing Everybody you know. When your electric goes out, if you fail, one of the craziest things they ever did utilities lending utilities after hours they rolled their phones to dispatch. So if somebody calls in and they've, and the intended purpose is is that if they have a water leak or something like that, they can call, we can set off a pager for whoever's. You know the on-call and then go take care of it. What happens is I get to argue with somebody who swears up and down that they paid their water bill on time, right, yes, and now their water's off.
Speaker 1:And I, you know, I love it.
Speaker 4:Ain't nothing I can do for you, sir, yeah.
Speaker 2:I would love to be able to help you, but I am unable. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know how many times we get called dispatched seriously over to turning somebody's electric on starting pilot lights for people.
Speaker 4:But you know, I don't mind.
Speaker 3:I didn't mind it.
Speaker 4:No, I don't mind that.
Speaker 3:Getting possums out of people's houses. I did mind that because I was or snakes Gosh, they get a kick out. I think dispatch got a kick out of it If a snake was. I don't know if they just knew I was scared or something, but it'd be like I've got.
Speaker 4:I've got a good story that I'll let Jake tell it.
Speaker 3:But Jake's terrified of snakes One time these people come from Manchester or somewhere and this snake had ridden across. I mean a big old, long black, you know some kind of anaconda, I don't know king cobra, they're all the same to me. But dispatch gives out. They're like hey, this people called. They've got a snake in there. They've seen it pop its little head out in the hood. It's like where the windshield wiper it's like. Looked at them, I'm like, oh, I remember thinking, but I was like at Kroger and I was like I can't not answer this. And sure enough, we get there and I'm thinking, maybe like a little garter snake that's maybe six inches long or something. No, well, this thing, when we finally get it out of there, it's as long as that car. Jeez, I've never been more. I've lived in the car and and being chasing around I can dispatch that. I was like I don't know if you're supposed to have that. His exact words were that that's just a agricultural tool. I was like, hey, good, that's a good call. Who was?
Speaker 2:that Ben oh man.
Speaker 3:We had some fun. I can't wait One day Hopefully, I don't know. I've not asked the new guys or any active guys to come on yet.
Speaker 4:I don't know I don't right now. No doubt I don't know that the administration would let them come on.
Speaker 3:But we don't know, I don't right now, no doubt I don't know that the administration would let them come on. But we've had some fun.
Speaker 4:There's so many stories and I know he would love to tell there's a lot of stories that I would like to tell with him here, so that I can make fun of him. But I hate to make fun of him behind his back? I will, but I hate to Well you know.
Speaker 2:Behind his back I will, but I hate to Well you know it's hard and these are kind of some minor infractions so I don't think it'll do anything major. But working the radio, the night that he called in it had been snowing and stuff and TC was his sergeant. Are you sure? Is this the?
Speaker 3:night it snowed. Yeah, is it when he wrecked an AR dike?
Speaker 1:No, this wasn't the.
Speaker 2:AR dike. This was on the quarter right at the end of Slate Lake oh, this one right now when the little pawn shop is right there, yeah, and they were up there looking for somebody or looking for a vehicle or something, and of course it didn't pan out. There wasn't anybody around by the time they got over there. And he's, you know, he's been over here for like five minutes at the time, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he. I don't know if he was trying to turn around or whatever, but he just keys up and goes.
Speaker 3:I wrecked.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's funny, and so we're trying to figure out. You know, what do we need to do? We need to send a wrecker out or whatever. And I guess TC helped him out of the driver's seat and got in himself and drove it out of the ditch.
Speaker 3:That's funny. That's because we're all a drive. My favorite them guys listen snow.
Speaker 1:They try. You know snow at shift change.
Speaker 3:Guys were trying to get to work. It was tough but we were good with getting the overtime being like you guys, stay put because the salt trucks will get out there and take care of that. In about 20 minutes to an hour you can get, you know, unless it's a monster snow, most of the major you know until these cold snaps like this.
Speaker 4:If you had ground clearance, though, aside from the rear-wheel drive Crown Vicks we had.
Speaker 3:Those things would still go because we had so much stuff in the trunks of them. Well, that's true, they were unbelievable.
Speaker 4:But if you had it with all-wheel drives. As long as you had ground clearance and weren't pushing snow, they would go Chargers just didn't have it that good. They didn't have the ground clearance they needed.
Speaker 3:But they were all-wheel drive, but they liked to get high-centered easy. But you know, they're coming over, we're like, we're good, and then you hear, well, we've wrecked over here, or I'm stuck. I'm like, oh my gosh, if they would have just waited a hot second, you know, they would have been fine. But it was. Who was it?
Speaker 4:Was it Jim Tom that stepped out of his cruiser one time and then down into the ditch? Yeah, it was piled full of snow and he just stepped out.
Speaker 3:He thought, yeah, I think he might have got hurt on that one for a hot second, I think he did A little bit One of them he got hurt on. That's funny.
Speaker 4:I wish he would come on, but yeah, we got. He's antisocial these days. Yeah, I've tried, I've been.
Speaker 3:Maybe if we put enough guilt on him, he'll come out.
Speaker 4:If I buy him a pop, he might come.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he might do that. I think you guys in dispatch are just heroes, you know, just heroes.
Speaker 4:You don't get enough respect. They really don't. And and we on the police side, I know we there's a lot of times that we bad math, you and being like, well, why do they? You know you get too much information.
Speaker 1:I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaker 4:But that's the thing with police officers If we're not complaining about something, we're not working, we're not breathing. But dispatchers don't get enough respect and they deserve to be in the line of first responders. There's definitely a special place in my heart for dispatchers A good dispatcher anyway Some of them.
Speaker 2:There's a special place for them somewhere, yeah, somewhere else yeah.
Speaker 2:Now you know, it's one of those things that there are. There are a lot of people who you know. Every year they're championing that cause, trying to get dispatchers recognized as first responders and stuff like that. But if you talk, talk to the ones who who just they do the job because they love it, they love their community, they want to serve. They could care less. We know who we are, right. It's one of those things where you're You're not doing it for that, anyways, you're confident in who you are and what your contribution is.
Speaker 4:You don't need the pat on the back yeah.
Speaker 3:But it's nice, when you can. I mean for me to be able to tell you guys how much I appreciated y'all through my career. And still I'm still involved a little bit in a different capacity, but I don't rely on dispatch as much, but I have called and needed. I try not to call.
Speaker 4:When I got out, it was like my goal. I was like I'm not calling dispatch, I'm not going to be that person, I wouldn't call. When I got out, it was like my goal. I was like I'm not calling dispatch. I wouldn't call dispatch when I worked at dispatch.
Speaker 1:I'd see something happening on the side of the road and I'm like that looks god-awful Somebody?
Speaker 4:ought to call about that.
Speaker 3:There's a suspicious man walking down the street. I wonder how many calls they've taken today, on a snow day and on a Friday.
Speaker 1:I'm going to leave them alone.
Speaker 3:I'm going to drive around this wreck right quick and just keep going.
Speaker 2:They're good, you've got some that do and then some that don't. They'll be listening to the radio and they'll still call hey, what's my boys got going on out there? You're listening to the radio obviously because you're calling me about what's going on you know you'd be in the middle of some hot call or something and you've got to stop and explain to somebody, it's more frustrating or whatever.
Speaker 3:I'm sure than hey a call up there. Hey, what's going on down here? I saw three fire trucks and city police. What was I got? A whole lot of none yet. Chief, just turn on your dang radio, you'd find out yeah exactly my bad, I just my bad.
Speaker 2:I can watch and see. Okay, who's going by. Yeah, 46. Yeah 46.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, especially if a squad's going out, If rescue squads are going out by themselves, it's probably drowning out at the lake, something like that. If it's just them Fire and rescue's going out, it's a wreck. It's a wreck, yeah. So it's just different. You can kind of tell anymore. But all them years everybody thought I knew everyone. Like hey, your name was drove by my house. Well, you're on the way to the hospital. Do you know what's going on? I'm like well, the hospital moved from on Snyde Street to just past your house now.
Speaker 3:I'd say they're going to the hospital I don't know.
Speaker 4:Quite often Well, we're about out of time. Have you got it? Got another good one that you want to close us out with?
Speaker 2:um, this one. It's probably not quite as as hilarious as it is. It was just a. It was funny in in the way that you know it's like this stuff never happens, Right Kind of call, and it was. I think the funniest thing about it was, you know, if it hadn't have been for somebody trying to go the wrong way on the interstate that they ended up bailing out of their car, then the one-legged unit that was in pursuit that wasn't even supposed to be out of the car, then the one-legged unit that was in pursuit that wasn't even supposed to be out of the office ends up with the 1015.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we had and we used to have. They don't have it there anymore. I'm jealous, but we used to have an alarm monitoring system in there.
Speaker 2:I remember they don't have that, they don't have it anymore and so they had most of the banks around were tied into it, some private residences, things like that and you'd have the thing. Go off periodically, call them up, yeah, everything's fine. Okay, and of course we always had the little song and dance in the city with the banks you know about. You know, go out and I have the placard up at the drive-thru and stuff like that. Yeah, so we get a call from, or we get the alarm first, and then the call from, fort Bank over 1006 and 192. And they've actually been robbed. There's a woman comes to the drive-thru with a gun in a minivan, a blue minivan, and she has robbed them. Yep, okay, through the drive-thru, through the drive-thru.
Speaker 2:It's amazing, now she had uh, she's not done. She's not done, hmm, so we're working that and we're doing everything we can do to get everybody there, get all the information we can get, because you know we're trying to get units in the area, all that. So in the middle of doing that, the alarm panel goes off again and I'm like you know, somebody's bumped the thing and I look over at it and it's Cumberland Valley Bank over in the shopping center.
Speaker 4:On the same end of town, half mile down On the same end of town, you know half a mile down.
Speaker 2:So we're getting ready to call them and they actually call us. You know, before we can even call them, they've actually been robbed by a woman in a blue minivan through the drive-thru.
Speaker 4:See, that amazes me. Right there, I would be hard-pressed to be robbed through a drive-thru. See, that amazes me. Right there, I would be hard-pressed to be robbed through a drive-thru. They'd be like I'm going to shoot you. I'd step to the right. No, you're not. No, you're not no.
Speaker 2:It was what it was. Yeah, so while just about the time units are starting to get in the area of Fort Bank, now we're giving out Cumberland Valley.
Speaker 3:I had came from, maybe right here at Station 2. I feel like I was here for whatever reason and I was coming on 192. I was decently close when the second comes out. So I'm like they're coming towards me, I'm like the way it's going, I'm like, I'm going to meet them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're working that way.
Speaker 3:And then I didn't meet the vehicle so I turned up Wheatley Street, I think some other units were like ah, it's got to be, you know, because there's another bank right there. We're like they're gonna hit.
Speaker 2:I think it was uh, what's that? Uh?
Speaker 3:fifth, and third whatever first trust. Yeah, truest now, whatever it was back then, truest was the next one in in line right there I'm like they're coming right here. I've got them.
Speaker 2:It wasn't me it wasn't me though. So then you know we're, and of course we got every available unit. Is, you know, out there just buzzing around all over the place, and poor burt was on light duty, he, that was when he missed his knee up, yeah, and he was confined to the pd and with this one he couldn't, he couldn't help it. So he jumps in the car, he's gonna go help. Look and uh, he gets over that way and he calls out that he's over around Parker, you know, coming from that way.
Speaker 2:And so about that time we start getting calls that a blue minivan has tried to get on the southbound exit ramp going north, and so we give that out and she wheels around and ends up turning down St Joe Lane. And when she does, bert's coming the other way, because by the time we gave that part of it out, he started heading over that way. Because by the time we gave that part of it out, he started heading over that way, and instead of trying to blow by him or going out by the hospital, where you got a little running room, she decides she's going to dump it behind the church there over the hill. Well, once you do that, there's nothing but a circle. Yeah, you know, and when she gets down below the church she bails out and runs off and, of course, the only person to get in foot pursuit is the one guy that's not even supposed to be out of the office.
Speaker 4:Yes, and I remember Derek saying. He said I think you might be the first unit Talking to him. He said you might be the first unit that ever gets written up and an award at the same time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he sure did. And what was even more remarkable, well, the other unit involved that helped him out, maybe helped get her back up or whatever. Was Holiday and it was his last day ever, that's right. Yeah, he was retiring like that next day or two. I mean, I was like you got a guy that's going out the door and again.
Speaker 4:Retiring.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and somebody with a one-legged officer running, and the two that catch him were like Because I swear I was still stuck down there. I was like what's the chances? You know, by the time I get down there they're already 10, 15, they've already rested and I'm like wow and if that call couldn't have gotten any crazier.
Speaker 2:In the middle of all that going on, I get a call from this lady. She's in a panic and she's out at the out in the county right around Reed Valley and Maple Grove, yeah, and she's saying that somebody's stolen her car and they've kicked her out of her vehicle. She was basically carjacked, yeah, and I said, well, what happened? She said, well, I was at St Joseph Hospital and this lady said that she needed a ride. So I gave her a ride and we got out here at the end of Reed Valley and she pulls a gun on me and forces me out of the vehicle. I'm like, okay, what's the description on the vehicle? Well, it's a blue minivan.
Speaker 4:Same blue minivan Same blue minivan.
Speaker 2:So the lady that was doing the armed robberies at the two banks had carjacked somebody and was using somebody else's vehicle to do it.
Speaker 4:Listen you never get to solve two crimes at once.
Speaker 3:like that, ever it never falls into place. Like that. That was a wild call yeah.
Speaker 2:And a good catch.
Speaker 4:I mean that was a quality action on those units I've seen yeah.
Speaker 3:That's a rarity, and good dispatching.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Get them in their area at the same time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that's you know and, like I said, people don't understand how difficult that is to do quickly it's a lot of juggling.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a lot of quick. Yeah. It was always hard for me, like when we would have something on the interstate, because you've got to sit there, you've got to stop and think, okay, what's my best route? They're going, you know which way do I need to go to head them off? Because you can't just jump on the interstate and try and catch them at Mach 30 or whatever.
Speaker 3:Oh, it was funny You'd be like why is dispatch giving us this call, coming southbound at the 55 mile marker?
Speaker 4:Because it's going to make it to us.
Speaker 3:By the time we could get somebody out there we were the next in line, or it would be like you know, I'm sure, the juggling act. Okay, they're at the 44. Let's just go ahead and call Corbin in post.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because there's no way to sit.
Speaker 4:Unless they get off the ramp. You know, get on the exit ramp.
Speaker 3:They might give it to us. That would be like we got a unit right at the 38 mile mark or something and you just get lucky, but you had to do some calculations and figure out where. Alright, I know this group. Meh, they're all in the back lot right now. Or you look out and you're looking the entire police department's right here in dispatch eating popcorn. I want to give it up Laughter.
Speaker 2:Laughter, this is the room right here in dispatch eating popcorn. I want to give it up. This is the room clear.
Speaker 4:That did happen quite frequently. They'd get the call. They'd look over their shoulder and say can we give this out? Yeah, Somebody start walking out the Go ahead.
Speaker 3:You're trying to cover the. The fastest way to clear is like um Rock Castle or SO or Corbin's In Pursuit boom, you're gone.
Speaker 1:That's a fast way to clear out the anywhere.
Speaker 3:So yeah, oh, this has been fun we gotta do this more.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm glad, definitely glad to have you, glad to glad to catch up it's been way too long Hopefully.
Speaker 3:I'm glad you didn't ask me to go to a football game this year, because I probably would have not wanted to, and you endured.
Speaker 2:I gave my tickets up, I knew what was coming.
Speaker 3:We'll definitely go again when they're good, but we've had some fun. It's a joy to have you on you're always welcome. I want to do a lot. We've talked about this several times people are going to quit.
Speaker 4:Get tired of listening to us talk about it.
Speaker 3:Just do it already and I'd love to have you there from that perspective too, because that would be a fun way to be like no you idiot. That's not that's way to be like no you idiot.
Speaker 1:That's not how it went. Let me tell you how it went.
Speaker 3:So it'd be fun, but thanks for being on.
Speaker 4:It's been a pleasure, absolutely All right, guys, catch us on the next episode. I did some pre-sign. I did some pre-sign.