One day when we are all bored in dispatch a voice we don’t know comes on the radio and says “you had better get everyone you have downtown right away, your officer has been in a really bad wreck and there are wrecked cars everywhere”
We immediately tone rescue, ambulance and all officers to the downtown area. I sat there thinking “I have heard that voice somewhere before, I wonder who it is”. The officers arrive downtown and can’t find the wreck so they start looking everywhere.
All of a sudden I remember, that is the guy that called in the bomb threat that likes to call in disasters and watch the police run around.
I immediately call the city police and tell them that I think that is who it is. The dispatcher says “oh no, I wonder what happened because he was with the Lt. The Lt. was taking him up to the hospital”. She starts trying to call the Lt. on the radio with no response, they call and call. The cops are now trying to find the Lt.s car instead of a wreck.
They find the Lt., he is in the Post Office and the guy is in the back seat of the patrol unit. He is a little skinny guy and he has got himself wedged in little window between the front and back seats just far enough he can reach the mike. He was grinning from ear to ear as the patrol units come swooping in to surround the car.
The look on the Lt.’s face when all the cops in town come swooping in with lights and sirens going and he is coming out with a hand full of mail for the police department was precious according to the guys.
A fun time the guys had at the Lt.’s expense for years over that one.
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