Who here has a police scanner?

[Padraig18]

My boyfriend is a policeman, and we have one that monitors local, county and state police bands, plus fire, ambulance, ESDA and the NWS. It's really quite interesting, and it fills in lots of the 'blanks' in local news stories. :)

[blondeatlast]

1. We can pull it in on the 'puter thru the local newspaper site

:evilgrin:. It' is amazing to discover what you aren't told.

[izzie]

2. My sister always had one and this is a sad story.....

She heard a car accident and make of car. It was a frinds make so she drove over and as she walked to the site she saw her husband thermos and it dawned on her that his car was also the same make. It was her husband and he was dead.

[Padraig18]

3. Aye

That happens. Our town is small, and everyone knows everyone, so I understand how that is. Tony says the toughest calls are always ones involving people he knows. Just Wednesday night, he had to go to a fellow deputy's house, and tell him that his son had been badly hurt in a car wreck. :(

[blondeatlast]

4. Tomorrow I think we shall salute police officers,

who take as much shit from the public as anyone, and from people usually in crappy moods, or much worse.

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Good on your guy. I've been irritated at them, but I try to treat them with respect. Working at the downtown library, we have had need for their services often.

[Padraig18]

5. I agree

One of the reasons that most people have 'negative' perceptions of policemen is that, frankly, the police are seldom present at HAPPY occasions.

Most policeman I know (AND the one I happen to love) are decent, ordinary people who do a difficult job the best way they can. Additionally, they are almost all 'people persons' who enjoy helping others, or they wouldn't be doing the job they are.

Most of us see our own dealings with the police as 'snapshots', and seldom have the objectivity to step back and consider what the 'video' of HIS/HER day has been like. :)

[BiggJawn]

6. You must live in a VERY small town.

Everyone in my locale is either on an 800 mhz trunking system, or digitally encrypted.

I listen on the listed 460 and 150 Mhz frequencies and never hear anything except the town clerk telling the town utilities manager that a salesman is looking for him...:-)

[Padraig18]

7. 2900 people

And our entire county of 421 square miles has a population of about 18,000. Very rural and VERY small. :)

[Zorro]

8. Have one in my car

Primarily for monitoring HP about hazardous road conditions...it comes in handy...

[WillParkinson]

9. Paul does...

He takes it to work on slow days to listen to the world around him. I, personally, just find the whole thing dull.

[cmd]

10. We do

My husband is a retired firefighter. We have always had a scanner to monitor what is happening in our county. When he was active, it have him a leg up on how he might be needed. Now it fulfills his curiosity.