Not every call a dispatcher takes involves a life or death
experience. Sometimes they’re just darn funny.
Here are a few that local departments have collected over the
last few months:
• A man called in and stated that he was a reporter working on a
story about prostitutes. He was hoping the dispatchers could direct
him to an area where some
”
sources
”
would be hanging out.
Not every call a dispatcher takes involves a life or death experience. Sometimes they’re just darn funny.
Here are a few that local departments have collected over the last few months:
• A man called in and stated that he was a reporter working on a story about prostitutes. He was hoping the dispatchers could direct him to an area where some “sources” would be hanging out.
• A recent transplant from San Francisco called to report that a wild animal was tearing her yard to shreds, ripping up whole chunks of the home’s brand new sod. I turned out to be a stray cow.
• An amorous deer attacked a man on a motorcycle in hopes of finding a mate.
• A local sergeant called in to report that there was a sheep in his bedroom. The critter had run in the door as the officer was on his way out of the house.
• When a man called in and claimed that aliens were reading his brainwaves, a creative dispatcher told him to block their powers with a hat made of tin foil. The man said it worked.
Not every call that seems bogus turns out to be untrue, though. Two cases in Hollister illustrate that, sometimes, stranger things do happen.
• A man called to report bodies falling from the sky. It may have sounded crazy at the time, but it turned out to be true in a manner of speaking. The FBI had cracked a kidnapping case and, rather than informing the local departments, had simply swooped in to rescue the victim … by dropping down on zip lines from a helicopter.
• A little boy constantly reported to his father that a monster came out of his closet at night. Thinking it was a normal childhood fear, the father reassured his son that no such monsters existed, but the boy continued to insist. Upon arriving home late one evening, the man saw someone fleeing from his house. The perpetrator had cut a hole into the home through the little boy’s closet floor.
