May 21, 2025 • 31 mins
After diving into the world of creative criminal sentencing, Gina and Amber are back—this time turning their attention to the unsung heroes of chaos control: 911 dispatchers. From mistaking a goat for a kidnapped child to a man mowing shag carpet in the living room, this episode dives into some of the weirdest, funniest, and flat-out absurd emergency calls ever recorded. Whether it’s a deer standoff, an accidental dog dial, or tomatoes classified as missiles—yes, really—these stories highlight just how weird the world can be when you’re on the other end of the emergency line. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Edited by - djaudio22@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Fire Eyes Media.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
After diving into the creative punishments handed down from judges
and our previous what the Fuck episode, I've really been
thinking about how police, first responders, lawyers, judges all have
had to have seen some shit in their career that
stick with them. And I'm not talking about the horrific ones,
because I mean that goes without saying.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm talking about the.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hilarious or weird ones, and who is usually at the
front of that line.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Nine Dispatchers. Yeah, we've talked about the history of nine
to one one and some funny dispatcher calls in an
earlier episode, but honestly, the calls and stories could have
just been an episode all on their own. Today we're
doing just that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My god, the cat one from that previous episode still
gets me. If you haven't heard that oft as yet
and don't know what I'm talking about, we highly recommend
checking it out. Okay, before we get started, let's hear
our riddle for the day, what belongs to you but
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your friends use it more.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Stay tuned to the end to find out the answer.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And be sure to leave us a five star rating
and review wherever you're listening to us from if at
least one of these nine to one one calls made
you smile today, or if you're having a good day,
or if you're a human type person, it don't mean
the world to us, interra, or if you're just a
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person with thumbs, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
First up, I was in the office when my partner
gets a nine to one to one from a local
burger joint next to the Interstate a pickup pulling an
enclosed cargo trailer in the drive through. As the vehicle
drove away, the employee heard a child's voice from the
trailer saying, help me, help me. We have every police department, County, Mountie,
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and trooper on the Interstate Highway, County and Surface Street
looking for this thing. Seasoned PD found it just down
the road at a CMV pullout. The trailer had a
goat inside. Seems like the bleeding of the goat sounds
like help me due to the acoustics. The best was
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the officer was reporting all of this standing next to
said goat, so as to make sure the entire county
and Dispatch center heard the animal across the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Maybe it did need help.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
He did. He was stuck in the back of a
trailer helthy.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, goats make some weird freaking noises too.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I love goats to creepy eyes. They are my favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I mean there's a reason they're like, you know, what's
the word I'm looking for, associated with like Satan and
Demona things, because of their eyes. I really want to
do goat yoga, though.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't think I could. I think i'd be.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Laughing my ass exactly like there would be no yoga.
It would just be cuddling goat antics.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh that would be so fun. Oh, next one, let
me begin with I have lived in rural areas I
currently don't. I went to take some trash to the
bed and early in the morning, only to startle a
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young buck. He was huffing and stomping. I know there's
a family in the neighborhood, Buck Dough and two funds.
I'm already getting told that I'm too close, so I
just put my head down a bit and freeze. He
maintained his position, then gradually started moving around to where
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he was within ten feet of me. I realized that
the doe has now joined him. Thankfully I had my
phone with me, as I need the flashlight because my
porch light is too far away. I called nine to
one one, feeling like the whimpiest person ever to say
I was trapped in my yard by some dear but
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I wasn't about to test what would happen if I
chose to leave. Deer are beautiful but can be dangerous.
I am cornered by a buck in my yard. I
don't want to get paled.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I guarantee you that, like some to some police departments,
that would be a hilarious like, oh my god, did
that really just happen? And then I guarantee there are
some of them that are like, ah, yeah, well Betty's
cornered again, all right, will send George, you know, like
it's just kind of another Tuesday or something.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
They probably even have a name for the book. He's
like known to dispath. Like police in the area they're like, oh, you.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Know, Roger's causing a ruckus against.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It again and gotta go tell him to calm down.
Oh man. To live in like a country where or
like an area of town where that's like the only
thing you have to worry about, that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Would be nice.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Cornered by a buck, I would take it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Cornered by I would take cornered by a buck over
my car being broken into. You know all the other
stuff that comes in with living in a residential neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Oh absolutely, And all the paranoid neighbors on your Facebook
neighborhood group or like next door or whatever that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Are ringing or something, yeah, going.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Off about every slow car they see coming down the street.
Just give me a block any.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Day, dear god. That could be an entire episode all
on its own. Yeah, complaints from the ring camera.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'd next door app.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I could give you plenty just from my Facebook.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
From your own neighborhood alone.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Oh yeah, it's awful. I'm like, guys, get a hobby.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
One of my first overnights on my own rural center,
so only one dispatcher on at night. I received a
call on our crime Stoppers line around three am. The
crime Stoppers line blocks caller ID so we could not
call back. Something with ananymity rules within the crime Stoppers program.
On the line was just a small child's voice whispering
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I can see you, I'm right behind you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Picture like the little possessed child in a horror movie.
And that's exactly what happened. I was obviously horrified and
called her on duty deputy to tell him what had happened.
He was concerned and said he'd come back to the
office and stick around for a while to make sure
nothing was going on. Fast forward a year and I
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had forgotten completely about the call. I'm doing a ride
along with that same deputy and we were sitting on
a median running radar when all of a sudden, I
hear that same child's voice. I can see you, I'm
right behind you. I'm going to kill you. I turned
to look at the deputy next to me, who is
playing a fucking YouTube video with this audio and laughing uncontrollably.
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Come to find out, he had called in to crime
stoppers a year ago. To Hayes, the new girl, and
the entire department had successfully kept the secret for an
entire year.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh my god, So does that mean when she called
on duty duputy in the first place, they knew what
was going on.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He knew, he knew exactly what was happening, probably laughed
his ass off the entire way back to the station,
and then like you know, sweeped and like I'm here,
nothing's going to happen to you now, a little lady,
you know, and.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
They've probably all been through it too, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's like, oh man, oh, Brenda's turn out.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Like I've been having nightmares for a year.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I really want to find that YouTube video, that audio, because.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm sure we could be amazing to hear. Oh that
sounds like a fun group of people. Oh yeah, I
mean when you live in a slow place like that,
it's probably like, well, we got to, you know, live.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Keep it lively somehow, in a non violent or dangerous way.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Nothing like a child scar trying to threaten you. It
is scary. It's very scary. Okay. One for context. I
am an Australian dispatcher. This becomes important. I was in
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training at the time and I received a call from
an upset woman requesting an ambulance. Immediately after some prompting,
we finally get the address. As usual, I want to
know what's happened. Why is she so upset in public?
There's been a car accident, that makes sense. How many
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people are hurt? She is blubbering her words and I
cannot understand what she is saying, So I ask again,
how many people are injured? And she said it was
a single car and she doesn't know how many people
are injured keyword people still crying. She says that kangaroo
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hopped out of nowhere and the car happened to clip it.
I confirm, are you calling an ambulance for the kangaroo? Yes,
she says, to make matters more interesting, the kangaroo had
already left. There is one smashed up car on the
side of the road, but this woman is wailing and
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calling an ambulance for a kangaroo that is no longer there.
After confirming nobody in the accident needed an ambulance, I
politely told the caller we will not be sending anybody out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
See why Australia was a key point there. Oh she
was so.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Worried about the sweet kangaroo though.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But Homie clearly was like, all right, I'm fine, peace out,
I'm gone. And so she's just wailing on the side
of the road for a kangaroo that's not even there, like.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Living its best life. Also, kangaroos are terrifying and huge.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh my god, they look like deer on steroids that
could like Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, like those pictures of the ones that are like
standing on their backlogs, like do just that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They look like swollen swol.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Men with kangaroo faces.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's terrifying, Like okay, buddy, you do you, I'll do me.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, goodbye. Please please don't ote hurt babe.
That's why they tell you that, don't They tell Australians
not to drive at night.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I'm pretty sure that's a thing. Or like we were
watching a movie or a show that was based in
Australia and they were saying, like, you don't drive at
night because of the kangaroos, because like you can't see them,
and like they will thump you up.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like it's like deer here. You know, they'll fly across
the road and into your car.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Deer hit themselves on your car. That's the way it works.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's speaking from experience here.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, Next one, first nine one one. After training, two
am or so, got a call of a woman in
a nightgown running through the apartment complex I lived at.
She was screaming and a man was chasing her head.
The police department over, of course, thinking it was a
domestic Both PD arrived. Small town very quickly and cleared
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almost as quick When asking for a dispo response was
only mouse. Seems like the woman was up getting a snack,
cleaning something or other and found a mouse. She ran
out of the apartment through the parking lot, and the
male resident was chasing her, trying to get her to
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calm down. That's when I knew I would love parts
of this job.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Really, I mean I can see like this woman nightgown,
barely dressed, screaming at the top of her lungs, running
through an apartment complex. Man chasin after her, You automatically
think like, oh, homeboys, you know after her? Somebody save
the woman. No, she's she's she's running from a very tiny, small,
furry creature.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
And though guys like dude, it's okay, Like can you
just stop? Can you not run through the parking lot
in your nightgown? Like that's more dangerous than the mouse.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's in our apartment, and the dispatcher happened to live
in that complex. I get to probably see that woman
later on if you, like, I remember you, Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Man, she must have been so scared. I would never
I would definitely just like leave the room. I'm like
I'm gonna go in here and shut the door, maybe
put like a towel down. I didn't see anything. You're fine,
you can use that part of the apartment. But also,
a mouse is not gonna bother see.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And this is probably like I've had heat rats my
entire life. Seeing a mouse in my house, I'm gonna
be like, oh go mere, little guy, let's get you
the hell out of here, you know, like just I'm
not gonna grab it with my bare hands, so I'm
not gonna like freak out like there's a black mamba
in my freaking sink.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
So I guess like I've had this thought before. My
question is am I weird or like we weird? Because
we wouldn't react that way to something when so many
women are like, oh my god, it's a bug. Oh
my god, it's a mouse or whatever, or like a
lizard or a frog, and I'm over here like, oh
my god, it's so cute, Like am I weird or no?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Out?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, yes, I mean we are here to maybe bring
you weird. But I also think it has to do
like with our how we were grown where we're grown up,
like so Natasha terrified bug flying around, spider on the
ground something like that. She loses her collective tall shit.
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She comes running up to me. So we've had some
wolf spiders in the house.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, they're not gonna hurt anything.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They're fine. They're just trying to get inside, get water,
get get whatever. And so I relocate them back outside.
And so she found one in her bedroom and I'm like,
all right, buddy, I'm sorry, you can't be in here.
You gotta go. Natasha's freaking out. I get him kind
of corralled to where I can get a piece of
paper and like a little cup or something to take
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him outside. By the time I was done corralling him
and like securing him, I had her.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Ah so cute.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm like, yeah, he's cute, right. So it's just it's
about nurture thing too. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I just think it's like, why why are women.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Looked at mento? Yeah, men too.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Sorry, my boys are terrified of any sort of creature.
They love frogs and toads and stuff. Corey doesn't like
them at all, and he's like, don't touch that. I'm like,
it's not actually going to give you a word. That's
not that's a myth. I stall pick them up. I'm like,
oh hey, and they're.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Like, oh my god, what's fine.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
It's squishy, it's cute, it's fine, squishy.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Don't squish the frog.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I don't squish the toads oh man. Okay. Next, one
woman called, screaming, hysterical, just out of her mind. Her
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baby wasn't breathing, her baby, her baby. Oh my god.
We're starting CPR instructions immediately, dispatching all the assistants. Everyone
is moving quick and with a purpose. A deputy gets
on the scene first. Radios in dispatch did call ever
mentioned that her baby is a dog? No? No, she
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did not. I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I figured you would.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I would not call nine one one.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
In a panic.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I can see how people would be like, I don't
just somebody helping me?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Sly if you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Were alone, Yeah, you know, because you like, I don't
know what to do. So it's like nine woman help me.
But they're there to help people, yeah, not animals.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
No, that's they're they're not equipped for that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
No, but then that does make you wonder, who do
you call an I guess an emergency VET. But even
then it's normally you have to take them to the emergency.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
That exactly, unless you've got a mobile vet that you
can call up and be like get here.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Immediately, Like, no, you need to be the one. You
need to be the first responder.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You need to be your own first responder and that
such a way. And I have been in that situation before,
and it sucks and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh yeah, it's very hard.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So I mean, I can totally see why you know,
she's freaking out, But can you imagine when they got
back to the station after all of that, And like,
that's it's a good learning experience there to make sure
you get the right clarification questions and everything before you
send out the cavalry.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
But also, like that would be a hard conversation to have,
right if somebody called saying their baby wasn't breathing and
it's like, okay, is this animal baby or a person baby?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No, there's there. They're probably trained eating with ques specific
questions to be able to ask instead of is your
baby a human? You know, like how old are they?
What is their name? Do they have any allergies? You know,
just any kind of thing that you wouldn't let me.
I guess some of those you can, but I mean
if you what's their name?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh, it's fun. Yeah, that might be. I don't know
a little bit of a clue there.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
True, that's true. Oh man, I'm just really God, it
wasn't a real baby, and I hope that dog is okay.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But yeah, all right, moving on. I received a call
one Saturday afternoon from a nearly hysterical woman needing police.
Now I want this man out of my house. There
was a tremendous roaring noise in the background, so.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I asked, what it was. You got to get the
police here.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Now he's drunk and he got the lawnmower in my
living room and he's mowing my rug. Sure enough, on arrival,
the officer discovered that the shag carpet had indeed been mowed.
The man, the drunk boyfriend of the caller, was removed.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's one of the It's just.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I've been drunk in my life and I have done
questionable things. I don't think that I have ever thought, huh,
that rug needs a haircut lawn mower.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
No, I'm like, I'm like, why though? Was it just
like he was drunk and didn't like the shag rug.
So it's like, I'm just gonna mow it. Was it
like an argument, and so in retaliation of whatever said argument,
whatever was, he mowed her favorite shagrug Like, was he
just trying.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
To be funny?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Did he think that it was, you know, a comedic
sort of not prank to pull on.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
She was not having it though.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, I'd be pissed. Also, I'd be like, give that
dirty ass lawn mower right out of my house with
like the gas fumes and every h no, okay, next one.
I called the non emergency police line once for my
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across the way neighbor playing Christmas music at all hours
for seven months straight. Turns out I lived next to
a death building and the person had no idea that
their music was one playing twenty four to seven and
two so loud. I could hear it in any room
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of my apartment across the driveway. The operator was absolutely
cracking up because I was like, look, it's July. I
can't take hearing Holy Night again. The callback I got
when they made contact with the person was absolutely hilarious.
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The cop couldn't stop chuckling every few words. Okay, the
fact that this person put up with it for seven months.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, I was going to make that point like can
we just stop for a second, like this is a
wholesome funny, like he was really just being respectful. And
then of course, on the other hand, they had no idea,
they weren't doing it malicious. There was no malice from
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anybody involved in this.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
This might be one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I love it, but also and I can hear a
lot of people going, why don't you just go over
there and knock on the door, But some people don't
feel comfortable doing that exactly because you don't know how
somebody else is going to react in that situation, or
they've got like social anxiety or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Maybe they did. Maybe they did try to go over
there and knock and the person was death. They can't
hear the knock. Maybe they didn't ring the doorbell, because
you know, there's a lot of like if they've got
a doorbell installed, they'll have a light that flashes so
they know that somebody's at the door. Maybe they didn't
use maybe they knocked instead. So there's so many variables,
but it's just it's it's wholesome and it's hilarious because
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my god, seven months of Christmas music, Like when December hits. Yeah,
you know, I'm I'm all for leave Mariah Carey out
of it. Do not play that shit near me ever, anytime,
under any circumstances. But other Christmas music, yes, let's get
into the jolly old spirit. But July hearing Holy Night blasted,
I would lose my mind.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
What about Harry Connick junior Christmas?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Are you trying to kill me?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
No? I'm asking because like young me was like, yes,
let's listen to know, oh the Christmas music. And now
I'm like, I'll listen to it for an hour while
we put up the tree, but after that I'm good.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Just like some some of like okay, get I'm more
for like the instrumental. Yes, I don't need to hear
people singing.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
What's the orchestra? What's the Trans Siberian Orchestra?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, give me that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's fine, absolutely, But still I can only handle so
much and then I gotta go back to my happy,
screamy yeah, sexy man voice music.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh god, let's talk. Let's not go into that right now.
What would I rather be doing right now? Ay?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, okay, next?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Oh god, this one one time I had to call
nine one one because as I was driving down the
freeway a doctor Pepper vending machine fell off the truck
in front of me, and I had no time to
avoid it. Luckily, I was in a big SUV, so
it didn't do a ton of damage. So I called
nine to one one and was pretty upset and told
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the dispatcher I hit a doctor Pepper machine and.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
She asked, did.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
You hit it with your hand? And I'm like, no,
I hit it with my car. I'm on the freeway.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
So I wait for the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Cops to show up, and they were shocked that I
actually did hit a doctor Pepper machine. I'm pretty sure
they thought I was on something when I called in
and fair like absolutely get that call, Like what now?
Those are? They're stationary. They're usually like outside of a building,
inside of a building, like they don't move, but you
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hit it with your car, you have to.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I mean, they have to get there somewhere. But I
would have been like what were you doing when you're
in your phone and not paying attention and like swowed
and ran into one no no broll like it fell
out of a moving vehicle.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It tried to final destination. My ass.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Okay, Pam at me first, Okay, I know a handful
of people that would be real excited about a doctor
Pepper machine.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh God, me too, Like y'all can keep that.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh I just know. Thanks. I love doctor Pepper, but
I don't used to old me. I don't drink soda now.
But oh yeah, I'm I know several people in my.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
House never been my jam Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Last one I worked during COVID and was constantly getting
calls were people tattling on one another about not distancing
at the local public parks, So most non emergency calls
were something along those lines. However, there was a call
I got in the middle of the day on the
nine to one to one phone and the mail caller
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was upset because his friend had stolen.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Salt.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
After a couple follow up questions, the story I heard
from the man was that his friend climbed into his
home through a window to borrow salt, and said that
friend was now sitting on the caller's front porch steps
saying sorry. To the caller. The caller indicated that he
didn't want us to do anything necessarily, but that he
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was just tired of his friend doing this. So I
guess this had happened before the best part was the
back and forth between the front and the collar. Man,
I'm sorry, I just needed some dude, just ask. I
asked you last time not to do this again.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know during COVID. At least it wasn't toilet paper.
He could have gotten shot for that, so you know.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
So just say, also, be like we are social distancing.
Do not come into my house through the window to
take my salt. Like, dude, set it on the porch.
Fort you seriously, I will set it out. Just fucking ask.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Climbed in through the window. He really needed salt. Hey,
maybe when you were out of assault, that's what you
should have done.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I just crawled into my my friend across the street's
house and stolen her assault.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Hey, I need some salt, A.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Man. I did finally get salt. I did not have
to steal and to get it either. I was like
when I read this, I was like, wait, this is
this a personal attack?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And anybody that like maybe wants to know what we're
talking about, stay tuned for a future to be collab.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, a very very funny one that was super fun
to do, but uh yeah, this would be like could
you imagine having to do that job and having people
constantly calling to be like they're not a social distancing,
which I'm sure got so.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So annoying, and then he is so like, this is
how I think about it, Like, some of these people
have to take some of the most gut wrenching calls
of the worst day of these people's lives, and that
has to get so hard after a while. So anybody
that does this for a living, thank you, Because I
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don't have the lady balls to do it.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I just I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So you know how I am with balance and everything,
This helps kind of balance that out so it's not
all heavy all the time.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Very thankful for the dumb people out there bringing some
humor into people's lives.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Absolutely, it does remind me. I saw a headline recently
about a dispatcher that had gotten charged and I think
she was being sentenced to jail time because she didn't
answer like fifty calls that came in because she just
didn't feel like talking on the phone.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Oh God, that would be me.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
It's her job, she is a dispatcher, and she was like,
I just didn't feel like I just didn't want to
talk on the phone. So she ignored, like fifty emergency.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Cause, yeah, that's not okay.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
See that's why I don't do that job, because I
hate talking on the phone.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Can you imagine also as somebody with anxiety trying to
talk to somebody else with anxiety. It's just the two
things bad combination. No, it would never. I would never
help anybody calm down enough to deal with a whole
I would be like.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh my god, why, I'm so sorry. I don't know
what to do. Are you okay?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I'm crying? They are crying. It would just be a
horrible It would not be good. No.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh man, Oh, this was just the tip of the iceberg.
So let us know.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
If you'd like to hear more of these, because there
are plenty. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and
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Speaker 4 (30:42):
Before we say goodbye, let's hear our riddle one last time.
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more.
What is it? The answer? Your name? Yeah, let us
know if you figure it out. I mean, unless you
go buy a nickname and that's what your friend's called.
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But that's still your nickname, you know, so I like
that one. That's fun. It's better than stealing their salts.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yes, don't do that. Friends. Don't let friends steal each
other just to ask.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Don't give a to you. My promise until next time.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Stay safe and make good choices. But rip ru
Fire Eyes Media.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
After diving into the creative punishments handed down from judges
and our previous what the Fuck episode, I've really been
thinking about how police, first responders, lawyers, judges all have
had to have seen some shit in their career that
stick with them. And I'm not talking about the horrific ones,
because I mean that goes without saying.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm talking about the.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hilarious or weird ones, and who is usually at the
front of that line.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Nine Dispatchers. Yeah, we've talked about the history of nine
to one one and some funny dispatcher calls in an
earlier episode, but honestly, the calls and stories could have
just been an episode all on their own. Today we're
doing just that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My god, the cat one from that previous episode still
gets me. If you haven't heard that oft as yet
and don't know what I'm talking about, we highly recommend
checking it out. Okay, before we get started, let's hear
our riddle for the day, what belongs to you but
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your friends use it more.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Stay tuned to the end to find out the answer.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And be sure to leave us a five star rating
and review wherever you're listening to us from if at
least one of these nine to one one calls made
you smile today, or if you're having a good day,
or if you're a human type person, it don't mean
the world to us, interra, or if you're just a
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person with thumbs, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
First up, I was in the office when my partner
gets a nine to one to one from a local
burger joint next to the Interstate a pickup pulling an
enclosed cargo trailer in the drive through. As the vehicle
drove away, the employee heard a child's voice from the
trailer saying, help me, help me. We have every police department, County, Mountie,
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and trooper on the Interstate Highway, County and Surface Street
looking for this thing. Seasoned PD found it just down
the road at a CMV pullout. The trailer had a
goat inside. Seems like the bleeding of the goat sounds
like help me due to the acoustics. The best was
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the officer was reporting all of this standing next to
said goat, so as to make sure the entire county
and Dispatch center heard the animal across the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Maybe it did need help.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
He did. He was stuck in the back of a
trailer helthy.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, goats make some weird freaking noises too.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I love goats to creepy eyes. They are my favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I mean there's a reason they're like, you know, what's
the word I'm looking for, associated with like Satan and
Demona things, because of their eyes. I really want to
do goat yoga, though.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't think I could. I think i'd be.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Laughing my ass exactly like there would be no yoga.
It would just be cuddling goat antics.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh that would be so fun. Oh, next one, let
me begin with I have lived in rural areas I
currently don't. I went to take some trash to the
bed and early in the morning, only to startle a
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young buck. He was huffing and stomping. I know there's
a family in the neighborhood, Buck Dough and two funds.
I'm already getting told that I'm too close, so I
just put my head down a bit and freeze. He
maintained his position, then gradually started moving around to where
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he was within ten feet of me. I realized that
the doe has now joined him. Thankfully I had my
phone with me, as I need the flashlight because my
porch light is too far away. I called nine to
one one, feeling like the whimpiest person ever to say
I was trapped in my yard by some dear but
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I wasn't about to test what would happen if I
chose to leave. Deer are beautiful but can be dangerous.
I am cornered by a buck in my yard. I
don't want to get paled.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I guarantee you that, like some to some police departments,
that would be a hilarious like, oh my god, did
that really just happen? And then I guarantee there are
some of them that are like, ah, yeah, well Betty's
cornered again, all right, will send George, you know, like
it's just kind of another Tuesday or something.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
They probably even have a name for the book. He's
like known to dispath. Like police in the area they're like, oh, you.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Know, Roger's causing a ruckus against.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It again and gotta go tell him to calm down.
Oh man. To live in like a country where or
like an area of town where that's like the only
thing you have to worry about, that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Would be nice.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Cornered by a buck, I would take it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Cornered by I would take cornered by a buck over
my car being broken into. You know all the other
stuff that comes in with living in a residential neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Oh absolutely, And all the paranoid neighbors on your Facebook
neighborhood group or like next door or whatever that.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Are ringing or something, yeah, going.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Off about every slow car they see coming down the street.
Just give me a block any.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Day, dear god. That could be an entire episode all
on its own. Yeah, complaints from the ring camera.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'd next door app.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I could give you plenty just from my Facebook.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
From your own neighborhood alone.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Oh yeah, it's awful. I'm like, guys, get a hobby.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
One of my first overnights on my own rural center,
so only one dispatcher on at night. I received a
call on our crime Stoppers line around three am. The
crime Stoppers line blocks caller ID so we could not
call back. Something with ananymity rules within the crime Stoppers program.
On the line was just a small child's voice whispering
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I can see you, I'm right behind you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Picture like the little possessed child in a horror movie.
And that's exactly what happened. I was obviously horrified and
called her on duty deputy to tell him what had happened.
He was concerned and said he'd come back to the
office and stick around for a while to make sure
nothing was going on. Fast forward a year and I
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had forgotten completely about the call. I'm doing a ride
along with that same deputy and we were sitting on
a median running radar when all of a sudden, I
hear that same child's voice. I can see you, I'm
right behind you. I'm going to kill you. I turned
to look at the deputy next to me, who is
playing a fucking YouTube video with this audio and laughing uncontrollably.
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Come to find out, he had called in to crime
stoppers a year ago. To Hayes, the new girl, and
the entire department had successfully kept the secret for an
entire year.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh my god, So does that mean when she called
on duty duputy in the first place, they knew what
was going on.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He knew, he knew exactly what was happening, probably laughed
his ass off the entire way back to the station,
and then like you know, sweeped and like I'm here,
nothing's going to happen to you now, a little lady,
you know, and.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
They've probably all been through it too, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's like, oh man, oh, Brenda's turn out.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Like I've been having nightmares for a year.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I really want to find that YouTube video, that audio, because.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm sure we could be amazing to hear. Oh that
sounds like a fun group of people. Oh yeah, I
mean when you live in a slow place like that,
it's probably like, well, we got to, you know, live.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Keep it lively somehow, in a non violent or dangerous way.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Nothing like a child scar trying to threaten you. It
is scary. It's very scary. Okay. One for context. I
am an Australian dispatcher. This becomes important. I was in
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training at the time and I received a call from
an upset woman requesting an ambulance. Immediately after some prompting,
we finally get the address. As usual, I want to
know what's happened. Why is she so upset in public?
There's been a car accident, that makes sense. How many
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people are hurt? She is blubbering her words and I
cannot understand what she is saying, So I ask again,
how many people are injured? And she said it was
a single car and she doesn't know how many people
are injured keyword people still crying. She says that kangaroo
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hopped out of nowhere and the car happened to clip it.
I confirm, are you calling an ambulance for the kangaroo? Yes,
she says, to make matters more interesting, the kangaroo had
already left. There is one smashed up car on the
side of the road, but this woman is wailing and
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calling an ambulance for a kangaroo that is no longer there.
After confirming nobody in the accident needed an ambulance, I
politely told the caller we will not be sending anybody out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
See why Australia was a key point there. Oh she
was so.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Worried about the sweet kangaroo though.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But Homie clearly was like, all right, I'm fine, peace out,
I'm gone. And so she's just wailing on the side
of the road for a kangaroo that's not even there, like.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Living its best life. Also, kangaroos are terrifying and huge.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh my god, they look like deer on steroids that
could like Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, like those pictures of the ones that are like
standing on their backlogs, like do just that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They look like swollen swol.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Men with kangaroo faces.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's terrifying, Like okay, buddy, you do you, I'll do me.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, goodbye. Please please don't ote hurt babe.
That's why they tell you that, don't They tell Australians
not to drive at night.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I'm pretty sure that's a thing. Or like we were
watching a movie or a show that was based in
Australia and they were saying, like, you don't drive at
night because of the kangaroos, because like you can't see them,
and like they will thump you up.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like it's like deer here. You know, they'll fly across
the road and into your car.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Deer hit themselves on your car. That's the way it works.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's speaking from experience here.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, Next one, first nine one one. After training, two
am or so, got a call of a woman in
a nightgown running through the apartment complex I lived at.
She was screaming and a man was chasing her head.
The police department over, of course, thinking it was a
domestic Both PD arrived. Small town very quickly and cleared
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almost as quick When asking for a dispo response was
only mouse. Seems like the woman was up getting a snack,
cleaning something or other and found a mouse. She ran
out of the apartment through the parking lot, and the
male resident was chasing her, trying to get her to
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calm down. That's when I knew I would love parts
of this job.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Really, I mean I can see like this woman nightgown,
barely dressed, screaming at the top of her lungs, running
through an apartment complex. Man chasin after her, You automatically
think like, oh, homeboys, you know after her? Somebody save
the woman. No, she's she's she's running from a very tiny, small,
furry creature.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
And though guys like dude, it's okay, Like can you
just stop? Can you not run through the parking lot
in your nightgown? Like that's more dangerous than the mouse.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's in our apartment, and the dispatcher happened to live
in that complex. I get to probably see that woman
later on if you, like, I remember you, Oh.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Man, she must have been so scared. I would never
I would definitely just like leave the room. I'm like
I'm gonna go in here and shut the door, maybe
put like a towel down. I didn't see anything. You're fine,
you can use that part of the apartment. But also,
a mouse is not gonna bother see.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And this is probably like I've had heat rats my
entire life. Seeing a mouse in my house, I'm gonna
be like, oh go mere, little guy, let's get you
the hell out of here, you know, like just I'm
not gonna grab it with my bare hands, so I'm
not gonna like freak out like there's a black mamba
in my freaking sink.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
So I guess like I've had this thought before. My
question is am I weird or like we weird? Because
we wouldn't react that way to something when so many
women are like, oh my god, it's a bug. Oh
my god, it's a mouse or whatever, or like a
lizard or a frog, and I'm over here like, oh
my god, it's so cute, Like am I weird or no?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Out?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, yes, I mean we are here to maybe bring
you weird. But I also think it has to do
like with our how we were grown where we're grown up,
like so Natasha terrified bug flying around, spider on the
ground something like that. She loses her collective tall shit.
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She comes running up to me. So we've had some
wolf spiders in the house.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, they're not gonna hurt anything.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They're fine. They're just trying to get inside, get water,
get get whatever. And so I relocate them back outside.
And so she found one in her bedroom and I'm like,
all right, buddy, I'm sorry, you can't be in here.
You gotta go. Natasha's freaking out. I get him kind
of corralled to where I can get a piece of
paper and like a little cup or something to take
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him outside. By the time I was done corralling him
and like securing him, I had her.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Ah so cute.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm like, yeah, he's cute, right. So it's just it's
about nurture thing too. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I just think it's like, why why are women.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Looked at mento? Yeah, men too.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Sorry, my boys are terrified of any sort of creature.
They love frogs and toads and stuff. Corey doesn't like
them at all, and he's like, don't touch that. I'm like,
it's not actually going to give you a word. That's
not that's a myth. I stall pick them up. I'm like,
oh hey, and they're.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Like, oh my god, what's fine.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
It's squishy, it's cute, it's fine, squishy.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Don't squish the frog.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I don't squish the toads oh man. Okay. Next, one
woman called, screaming, hysterical, just out of her mind. Her
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baby wasn't breathing, her baby, her baby. Oh my god.
We're starting CPR instructions immediately, dispatching all the assistants. Everyone
is moving quick and with a purpose. A deputy gets
on the scene first. Radios in dispatch did call ever
mentioned that her baby is a dog? No? No, she
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did not. I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I figured you would.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I would not call nine one one.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
In a panic.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I can see how people would be like, I don't
just somebody helping me?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Sly if you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Were alone, Yeah, you know, because you like, I don't
know what to do. So it's like nine woman help me.
But they're there to help people, yeah, not animals.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
No, that's they're they're not equipped for that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
No, but then that does make you wonder, who do
you call an I guess an emergency VET. But even
then it's normally you have to take them to the emergency.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
That exactly, unless you've got a mobile vet that you
can call up and be like get here.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Immediately, Like, no, you need to be the one. You
need to be the first responder.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You need to be your own first responder and that
such a way. And I have been in that situation before,
and it sucks and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh yeah, it's very hard.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So I mean, I can totally see why you know,
she's freaking out, But can you imagine when they got
back to the station after all of that, And like,
that's it's a good learning experience there to make sure
you get the right clarification questions and everything before you
send out the cavalry.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
But also, like that would be a hard conversation to have,
right if somebody called saying their baby wasn't breathing and
it's like, okay, is this animal baby or a person baby?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No, there's there. They're probably trained eating with ques specific
questions to be able to ask instead of is your
baby a human? You know, like how old are they?
What is their name? Do they have any allergies? You know,
just any kind of thing that you wouldn't let me.
I guess some of those you can, but I mean
if you what's their name?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh, it's fun. Yeah, that might be. I don't know
a little bit of a clue there.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
True, that's true. Oh man, I'm just really God, it
wasn't a real baby, and I hope that dog is okay.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But yeah, all right, moving on. I received a call
one Saturday afternoon from a nearly hysterical woman needing police.
Now I want this man out of my house. There
was a tremendous roaring noise in the background, so.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I asked, what it was. You got to get the
police here.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Now he's drunk and he got the lawnmower in my
living room and he's mowing my rug. Sure enough, on arrival,
the officer discovered that the shag carpet had indeed been mowed.
The man, the drunk boyfriend of the caller, was removed.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's one of the It's just.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I've been drunk in my life and I have done
questionable things. I don't think that I have ever thought, huh,
that rug needs a haircut lawn mower.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
No, I'm like, I'm like, why though? Was it just
like he was drunk and didn't like the shag rug.
So it's like, I'm just gonna mow it. Was it
like an argument, and so in retaliation of whatever said argument,
whatever was, he mowed her favorite shagrug Like, was he
just trying.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
To be funny?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Did he think that it was, you know, a comedic
sort of not prank to pull on.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
She was not having it though.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, I'd be pissed. Also, I'd be like, give that
dirty ass lawn mower right out of my house with
like the gas fumes and every h no, okay, next one.
I called the non emergency police line once for my
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across the way neighbor playing Christmas music at all hours
for seven months straight. Turns out I lived next to
a death building and the person had no idea that
their music was one playing twenty four to seven and
two so loud. I could hear it in any room
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of my apartment across the driveway. The operator was absolutely
cracking up because I was like, look, it's July. I
can't take hearing Holy Night again. The callback I got
when they made contact with the person was absolutely hilarious.
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The cop couldn't stop chuckling every few words. Okay, the
fact that this person put up with it for seven months.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, I was going to make that point like can
we just stop for a second, like this is a
wholesome funny, like he was really just being respectful. And
then of course, on the other hand, they had no idea,
they weren't doing it malicious. There was no malice from
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anybody involved in this.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
This might be one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I love it, but also and I can hear a
lot of people going, why don't you just go over
there and knock on the door, But some people don't
feel comfortable doing that exactly because you don't know how
somebody else is going to react in that situation, or
they've got like social anxiety or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Maybe they did. Maybe they did try to go over
there and knock and the person was death. They can't
hear the knock. Maybe they didn't ring the doorbell, because
you know, there's a lot of like if they've got
a doorbell installed, they'll have a light that flashes so
they know that somebody's at the door. Maybe they didn't
use maybe they knocked instead. So there's so many variables,
but it's just it's it's wholesome and it's hilarious because
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my god, seven months of Christmas music, Like when December hits. Yeah,
you know, I'm I'm all for leave Mariah Carey out
of it. Do not play that shit near me ever, anytime,
under any circumstances. But other Christmas music, yes, let's get
into the jolly old spirit. But July hearing Holy Night blasted,
I would lose my mind.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
What about Harry Connick junior Christmas?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Are you trying to kill me?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
No? I'm asking because like young me was like, yes,
let's listen to know, oh the Christmas music. And now
I'm like, I'll listen to it for an hour while
we put up the tree, but after that I'm good.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Just like some some of like okay, get I'm more
for like the instrumental. Yes, I don't need to hear
people singing.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
What's the orchestra? What's the Trans Siberian Orchestra?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, give me that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's fine, absolutely, But still I can only handle so
much and then I gotta go back to my happy,
screamy yeah, sexy man voice music.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh god, let's talk. Let's not go into that right now.
What would I rather be doing right now? Ay?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, okay, next?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Oh god, this one one time I had to call
nine one one because as I was driving down the
freeway a doctor Pepper vending machine fell off the truck
in front of me, and I had no time to
avoid it. Luckily, I was in a big SUV, so
it didn't do a ton of damage. So I called
nine to one one and was pretty upset and told
(24:49):
the dispatcher I hit a doctor Pepper machine and.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
She asked, did.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
You hit it with your hand? And I'm like, no,
I hit it with my car. I'm on the freeway.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
So I wait for the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Cops to show up, and they were shocked that I
actually did hit a doctor Pepper machine. I'm pretty sure
they thought I was on something when I called in
and fair like absolutely get that call, Like what now?
Those are? They're stationary. They're usually like outside of a building,
inside of a building, like they don't move, but you
(25:25):
hit it with your car, you have to.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I mean, they have to get there somewhere. But I
would have been like what were you doing when you're
in your phone and not paying attention and like swowed
and ran into one no no broll like it fell
out of a moving vehicle.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It tried to final destination. My ass.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Okay, Pam at me first, Okay, I know a handful
of people that would be real excited about a doctor
Pepper machine.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh God, me too, Like y'all can keep that.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh I just know. Thanks. I love doctor Pepper, but
I don't used to old me. I don't drink soda now.
But oh yeah, I'm I know several people in my.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
House never been my jam Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Last one I worked during COVID and was constantly getting
calls were people tattling on one another about not distancing
at the local public parks, So most non emergency calls
were something along those lines. However, there was a call
I got in the middle of the day on the
nine to one to one phone and the mail caller
(26:32):
was upset because his friend had stolen.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Salt.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
After a couple follow up questions, the story I heard
from the man was that his friend climbed into his
home through a window to borrow salt, and said that
friend was now sitting on the caller's front porch steps
saying sorry. To the caller. The caller indicated that he
didn't want us to do anything necessarily, but that he
(27:02):
was just tired of his friend doing this. So I
guess this had happened before the best part was the
back and forth between the front and the collar. Man,
I'm sorry, I just needed some dude, just ask. I
asked you last time not to do this again.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know during COVID. At least it wasn't toilet paper.
He could have gotten shot for that, so you know.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
So just say, also, be like we are social distancing.
Do not come into my house through the window to
take my salt. Like, dude, set it on the porch.
Fort you seriously, I will set it out. Just fucking ask.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Climbed in through the window. He really needed salt. Hey,
maybe when you were out of assault, that's what you
should have done.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I just crawled into my my friend across the street's
house and stolen her assault.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Hey, I need some salt, A.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Man. I did finally get salt. I did not have
to steal and to get it either. I was like
when I read this, I was like, wait, this is
this a personal attack?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And anybody that like maybe wants to know what we're
talking about, stay tuned for a future to be collab.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, a very very funny one that was super fun
to do, but uh yeah, this would be like could
you imagine having to do that job and having people
constantly calling to be like they're not a social distancing,
which I'm sure got so.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So annoying, and then he is so like, this is
how I think about it, Like, some of these people
have to take some of the most gut wrenching calls
of the worst day of these people's lives, and that
has to get so hard after a while. So anybody
that does this for a living, thank you, Because I
(29:00):
don't have the lady balls to do it.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I just I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So you know how I am with balance and everything,
This helps kind of balance that out so it's not
all heavy all the time.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Very thankful for the dumb people out there bringing some
humor into people's lives.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Absolutely, it does remind me. I saw a headline recently
about a dispatcher that had gotten charged and I think
she was being sentenced to jail time because she didn't
answer like fifty calls that came in because she just
didn't feel like talking on the phone.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Oh God, that would be me.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
It's her job, she is a dispatcher, and she was like,
I just didn't feel like I just didn't want to
talk on the phone. So she ignored, like fifty emergency.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Cause, yeah, that's not okay.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
See that's why I don't do that job, because I
hate talking on the phone.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Can you imagine also as somebody with anxiety trying to
talk to somebody else with anxiety. It's just the two
things bad combination. No, it would never. I would never
help anybody calm down enough to deal with a whole
I would be like.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh my god, why, I'm so sorry. I don't know
what to do. Are you okay?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I'm crying? They are crying. It would just be a
horrible It would not be good. No.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh man, Oh, this was just the tip of the iceberg.
So let us know.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
If you'd like to hear more of these, because there
are plenty. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and
TikTok at Weird true Crime or shoot us an email
at Weird true Crime at gmail dot com. We love
to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Before we say goodbye, let's hear our riddle one last time.
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more.
What is it? The answer? Your name? Yeah, let us
know if you figure it out. I mean, unless you
go buy a nickname and that's what your friend's called.
(31:03):
But that's still your nickname, you know, so I like
that one. That's fun. It's better than stealing their salts.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yes, don't do that. Friends. Don't let friends steal each
other just to ask.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Don't give a to you. My promise until next time.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Stay safe and make good choices. But rip ru
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