From The Police Scanner: November

A few of my favorites from this month:

Today: "A cutting...The female says that she was cutting a turkey and the male ran into the knife."

Nov. 18: "Suspicious party...don't know if he's stopping and using the bathroom or if he's using the bathroom as he's walking down the street."

Nov. 9: "Black male...he's urinating in front of the building on the lawn. Apparently he does this all the time."

Nov. 8: "Suspicious party...black male, long hair, peeping in windows. And he pooped on the side of the house at 3908."

"...a male who's off his med's, he's naked, running around the facility. He's very combative."

"Suspicious party...no shirt, tan pants, he's punching at the air, talking to himself."

| Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner, evening edition

And, finally, here's June:

June 1: "An aggressive at-large, 11307 Manchester. Small black poodle chasing people."

June 3: "A man with a red cape, dark pants and boots. He's exposing himself. 1150 Grand."

June 15: "In regards to a Hispanic male, standing on his balcony, watching people in the pool, and taking matters into his own hands."

June 23: "This time she thinks cult members are following her...we've had four calls from her already today."

June 24: In the middle of a severe thunderstorm, "It's going to be a white male, dark hair, naked, sitting at the corner."

| Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner, after-lunch edition

As promised in previous police scanner post, here's May:

May 6: "Suspicious party, 8400 block of Summit...ran his lawnmower into a vehicle and is now pouring gasoline all over the front yard."

"Orange Chevy Nova...drinking a Corona and driving recklessly."

May 12: "He has the curtain open, he's exposing himself, and masturbating in front of the patrons at Denny's."

May 22: "He's exposing himself and yelling at people in the park. He has a lady and two children with him. He's not yelling at them."

May 23: "He's defecating in public, and he's throwing it. Walking eastbound."

| Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner, morning edition

These dispatches are from a while ago, but I haven't subbed for the blog in a while. I'll post calls from May and June later, then we'll be all caught up!

April 9: "...vehicle swerving all over the road. The male is possibly being serviced by the female."

April 16: "EMS on a snake bite." Moments later, "Ambulance is advising that the snake left the scene."

"Black male...he just pooped in front of the address...left in an unknown direction of travel."

April 17: "Female wearing a brown dress and gray boots. Calling party advised that she's soliciting, has her top off, throwing bricks at vehicles."

April 18: "There's a KCP&L technician there that was locked in the basement by a customer...he shut her power off and she locked him in the basement."

April 20: "Contact Jerry. He's wanting to confront his neighbor who stole cans from him."

April 21: "A white female driver trying to run over a male, they're both possibly on drugs. And there's a female outside going crazy."

| Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner

For those of you who like these, a few more recently-overheard dispatches. All in a day's work for the PD:

"Caller advised that she and her sister were trying to pick up a 12-year-old at the residence, who is possibly high on weed."

"Lottie is calling. She's elderly, says she's going to jump off her porch...the caretakers there are trying to take her to the hospital against her will."

"The party's wearing a camouflage hat, drinking beer and screaming, threatening to shoot people."

"A suspicious car and occupant. A male occupying a dark-colored van with two refrigerators on top, he's holding on to the appliances while he's driving."

"He just sprayed lighter fluid all over himself and threatened to burn the house down."

| Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner: December

A few of the odd calls I overheard this month:

Dec. 8: A call to assist MAST with an unruly party (police had already been there three times today). "Everybody at the house is drunk and belligerent, but you'll see him. He's having hemorrhoid problems."

Dec. 12: The calling party "advised that her brother was trying to have sexual relations with her."

Dec. 18: "Contact David. He's hearing voices telling him bad things he's done and thinks he needs to be punished."

Dec. 22: "Last time we were out there, the granddaughter had beat up the grandmother."

"An animal incident. A runaway quarter horse running through the street. It looks confused."

Dec. 30: "It's the guy in the helmet there. He's really drunk and keeps falling down face-first on the sidewalk."

| Sara Shepherd

Police scanner, Thanksgiving Eve edition

Things I'm thankful for -- I heard about all these people on the police scanner instead of by crossing their paths out in the streets:

Nov. 2: "...at Chubby's, it's a black female about 5-foot, 200 (pounds). Wearing a red hoodie and waving a stick."

Nov. 4: "It's a little old lady occupying a motorized wheelchair. She's driving in the street, possibly a traffic hazard."

"A Hispanic male in the park, walking butt-naked. He arrived in a silver or gold vehicle."

Nov. 25: "The guy was masturbating by the Payless shoe store...looking for a small sedan occupied by a white male driving around the parking lot circling females."

| Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner

I saved these dispatches from last month, all from nightside. (After two weeks of working daytime hours, I can already tell that my weird scanner tidbits will be tapering off -- apparently most folks do wait until it gets dark to come outside, disrobe, threaten others with swords, etc.)

Oct. 11: "White male, blue jeans...he's chasing vehicles like a dog."

Oct. 17: "In regards to two teenage males, one has a mohawk, the second brown hair...they're flashing porn at passing vehicles and driving recklessly."

Oct. 25: "We've got a couple people performing a sex act in front of, it looks like, Doc's Caboose."

"...she caught him stealing her clothes from the laundry room, and now he's pretending not to be able to speak English."

Oct. 30: "Party in a Halloween mask, jumping in and out of traffic...One call says he looks like the jigsaw guy from Saw."

Oct. 31: "An 8-year-old out running alone...Last seen northbound on Stoneybrook in a Darth Vader outfit."

| Sara Shepherd

As heard on the police scanner II

Here are a few more dispatches from September. (Turtles apparently laid low last month -- didn't pick up any calls on them this time!)

Sept. 13: "A white male who pulled his pants down and showed his penis to the female caller...he's sitting by the dumpster...masturbating."

"...they're running around urinating on people's doors."

Sept. 16: "He's homicidal and suicidal, he was armed but threw it away. He's also off his med's and schizophrenic."

Sept. 27: "Black male with a red jacket over his head. He's intoxicated, pushed some bicyclists off their bikes."

| Sara Shepherd

As heard on the police scanner

Here are some scanner snippets I've been saving since the last time I subbed, with a few more to come tomorrow.

Sept. 4: "White male in his late 30s, completely nude, standing outside the office."

Sept. 10: "...in reference to three black males outside the residence, screaming and being loud. Sounds like they're having a party inside the car."

Sept. 11: "In regards to a party named Robert. He's armed with five big sticks, apparently he's harassing people in the area."

"There's a fifth-grader out of control, tearing up furniture and anything he can get his hands on."

Disturbance on a metro bus: "There's supposed to be a black male drinking a fifth, armed with a gun."

"A man...He put a TV outside the front door and is playing porno movies for people to see."

| Sara Shepherd

 

From the police scanner: August

For those of you who don't spend eight hours a day listening to the police scanner, here are some of the random snips I heard last month:

Aug. 1: "...four males with a turtle and a bucket, setting it on fire."

Aug. 11: "...at 14th and Grand...he's wiping deodorant all over the box office windows and talking to himself."

Aug. 13: "The people there aren't letting her leave. I guess they punched holes in her gas tank and threw her keys in the bushes."

Aug. 14: "...black female, she's yelling and taking off all her clothes and rolling around in the street, and there's small children standing by. ... She has no shirt on now, and she's trying to take off northbound in the car. ... This woman's definitely on the influence of something." Note: We wrote about this one when it happened. And again when the woman was charged.

Aug. 17: "Party that's armed has a knife in his pocket, also has more knives and swords in his room."

"It's an ice-cream truck...possibly intoxicated, swerving all over the lanes."

Aug. 26: "It's regards to a white male named Curly, fighting with a white female named Cat."

| Sara Shepherd

Police Scanner: July Highlights

It's the end of the month, and thus time for a few bizarre calls from the police scanner. These bits are all from the evening shift:

July 3: "Suspicious party armed with a spear, 2300 Vine...black male, light skin, wearing a cape and walking the halls."

July 12: "Black male, black pants...he has a blue pacifier in his mouth, he's standing in traffic."

July 16: "...there's a white male carrying a bag, urinating and defecating on the walls."

July 19: "It's in regards to a white male who's naked and keeps walking in and out of the building."

"...no shirt and blue pants wrapped around his neck, refusing to leave. He's yelling at the caller."

July 22: "The patient fell out of his wheelchair, he's in the street. Don't run over him."

July 24: "...in regards to several white people who are surrounding three baby deers and a deer with antlers with rope."

| Sara Shepherd

 

Police Scanner: Best of June, Day 2

As promised, here's the rest:

June 20: A flasher at 12th and Grand, behind the bus stop. "Black male, pink shirt. He's got his pants pulled down and asking people that walk by if they want a peek at him."

"Juveniles...they're trying to abuse the ducks there at the lake."

"The male and the female are fighting over a child, pulling the child back and forth, and the male pulled out some of the female's hair."

A suspicious party: "White male...he's putting cigarettes out on his head, and layin' on the bench. He's acting strange."

"It's involving a white male. He's skinny. He's wearing a white skirt."

June 21: "Calling party has been hearing voices all night long, telling her the house is going to blow up...also thinks the house is bugged."

| Sara Shepherd

Police Scanner: Best of June, Day 1

Another month on the night cops desk = another month of randomness from the police scanner. Here are a few from June. I'll post the rest tomorrow...

June 2: "White male ... he's vomiting all over the street and trying to get cars to stop for him, just south of the bridge..."

A woman threatening the cops if they don't hurry up and respond to reported drug activity. "She said if we don't get there pretty soon we're going to be calling for the red-and-white units to come out because she's going to take care of it herself."

June 5: "We have a go-kart that's driving up and down the neighborhood. They're also screaming cuss words as they're driving up and down."

From Grandview, "we have a report of a large snapping turtle in the roadway there. Caller was concerned that the animal might get run over."

June 10: Someone was reportedly biting people at the bus stop.

June 12: "Regarding a black male with a baseball bat, he's on the first floor knocking holes in the wall."

June 17: "This party's now in his underwear, he's taking the rest of his clothes off. He's on drugs...he's now breaking out car windows."

| Sara Shepherd

Police Scanner: May highlights, installation No. 3

For the weekend, here are the last of my noted scanner dispatches from May. Enjoy.

May 22: "Reported solicitors, 43rd and Troost, four black males dressed as females."

May 25: "In regards to a black male...he's jumping out of a tree with a big sword and a big gun strapped on his back."

"I think we went there just the other day for that same guy, and you're probably going to want three people. I think he's about 6-foot-5 and about 350."

"...43 and Prospect, we have a black female in the middle of the street undressing herself."

May 27: "...elderly white male...gray shirt...pretending to be a statue..."

May 28: "The female is beating on someone's door, possibly intoxicated. She's creating a scene."

"Just so you know, the party armed is deaf. He doesn't know how to speak. And he's also inside of the bedroom at the address, refusing to leave."

"It's involving a neighbor that he's fighting with, and he's thrown nails into the roadway for everyone to run over."

Kansas City dispatchers also reported that somebody called 911 because "they thought they saw a lion on the loose." As far as police could tell, it was unfounded.

| Sara Shepherd

Police Scanner: May highlights, installation No. 2

More highlights/lowlights from the evening shift. Watch for final installation for May tomorrow morning.

May 13: Johnson County Sheriff's communications said a resident called 911 to report some ditchweed growing by the side of the road. Deputies responded to the scene and were working to pull up the offending plant that night.

"He needs to be transported up to Shoal Creek...but he's a rather large man and won't fit in the vehicle."

May 14: "There's a white female giving a male oral sex in a maroon Chevy van. She's doing this out in the open...and there are children nearby."

May 15: "We have an aggressive, un-neutered male Rottweiller on the corner of 75th and Antioch charging us."

"She's screaming at a 1-year-old baby, saying that she doesn't want him anymore. Caller thinks she's mental, and that she's getting ready to hurt him."

May 20: "I guess there's a he-she soliciting...and another he-she chasing that person?"

| Sara Shepherd

Photo note: I envisioned a still shot of those tranny hookers that throw eggs at Samantha's window in Season 3 of Sex and the City. Sadly, we didn't seem to have any in our archives. So I just went with the maroon Chevy van.

Police Scanner: May highlights, installation No. 1

Here are some of my favorite scanner dispatches from this month, overheard on the evening shift. May was pretty busy, what with all the folks taking off their clothes and solicitors dressing as the opposite sex. Watch for additional installments tomorrow and Saturday.

May 5: "Calling party says his roommate is intoxicated and messing with him and his girlfriend...again."

May 6: "In reference to a black male. The calling party states he dropped off a large black bag in front of the residence. It smells very bad, and it is very big. He tried to confront the suspect but he became belligerent."

May 7: "All he's got on now are blue boxers...white male, dark hair. Same one we were chasing earlier."

May 8: Leawood dispatchers reported that someone called 911 because a snapping turtle was chasing their dog. There were no injuries.

May 11: "He showed his penis to the caller and now he's walking to the wooded area."

"Black female, no shirt, black shorts, no shoes. Walking northbound...and it looks like she's with two other large females and two little boys."

May 12: "Reported soliciting, 24 and Prospect. There's a black male wearing a wig."

| Sara Shepherd

Why I Quit Police Work

Not sure where this originally came from, or how long it's been circulating, but it's funny! With an unusual police chase at the end.

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(Sorry about the ugly link. I'll have to ask James when he gets back how to post videos with a picture like he usually does...)

| Sara Shepherd

Baby burrito

From California: Police respond to an initially alarming discovery in a trash can.

| Sara Shepherd

Police Scanner: March highlights

I saved a few of my favorite dispatches from the night cops shift last month. Theme: Along with warmer weather, we begin to see the re-emergence of ice-cream trucks running amok.

March 4: Request for assistance from "any East Zone officer that knows how to start a stolen car."

March 8: "It's involving a white male with white hair. His pants are down around his ankles ... fighting with a white female in a stocking cap."

March 11: "Male party left in an ice-cream truck, intoxicated, threw gravel all over the calling party's vehicle."

March 15: "It's in regards to someone who was pulled off the bus for sniffing glue and causing a disturbance."

March 18: "...an unknown male in his underwear. He's standing on the calling party's porch, asking for money and refusing to leave."

March 19: "Four to five black males...they're driving the ice-cream truck, last seen northbound, and they're driving it very erratically... He said it looked like some juveniles...he was almost hit head-on by them."

March 20: Reported shooting (which turned out to be unfounded) at the Bunker Hills trailer park. "Calling party said one of his neighbors shot him about an hour ago." Police were supposed to look for the blue and white trailer with a wood-burning stove and a gold Mercedes in the yard. "The suspect, the one that's on morphine, is still armed, and he has an attack-pit bull."

| Sara Shepherd

This photo, of Kansas City children of a bygone era lining up for cool treats, is from our archives.

Police Scanner: February highlights

In honor of the final day of February, here are some of the more amusing dispatches I heard working nights this month. They're all from Kansas City:

Feb. 12 "In regards to the donkey running loose in the neighborhood...last seen northbound on Hardesty."

Feb. 18 "Christopher has locked himself in the bathroom, says he's scared for his life...getting ready to take some drugs that he says will set him free."

Feb. 24 "Be advised that one of the parties that's sitting on the air conditioner is now playing with himself."

Feb. 26 "It's involving a white male in a gold van, naked, with tennis shoes on, running around."

Feb. 28 "It's supposed to be a white male who's elderly. He's exposing himself at the bus stop."

-- Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner: Friday night edition

Kansas City police dispatchers had a couple of odd ones:

7:52 p.m.

“…he (the subject) advised that if police do not come and pick him up for his Clay County warrant, he would start shooting bystanders with his bazooka.”

8:37 p.m.

“…Since you’re over there, can you go ahead and respond to 39 and Wyoming on that party wanting to freeze himself to death?”

-- Sara Shepherd

From the Shawnee police blotter

3:38 p.m. Wednesday, 12100 block of W. 59th Terrace:

The arrestee was contacted and arrested after leaving the scene of an accident. He was DUI and became disorderly during the booking process. He also threw a wadded up paper towel at an officer.

-- Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner: Weekend's best

A couple of my favorite dispatches from this past weekend, all of which Kansas City police handled (or debunked):

Friday night, a disturbance: "It's involving a male -- he's actin' a fool."

Saturday night, a suspicious person somewhere on Ash: "We've got an unknown male, wearing all camo' clothing, trying to direct traffic to go down a dead-end street."

Later Saturday night, a reported shooting at 7-11, Benton Boulevard and Independence Avenue. It turned out to be a hoax. Dispatchers suspected that early on, and this is probably why: "Suspect is a black male, approximately 80 years of age, with one leg, wearing all red and last seen running eastbound."

IT CAME FROM THE POLICE BLOTTER!

Here's a good resource for Johnson Countians: The sheriff's office has an online listing of its reports, updated daily. It lists the nature of the call, time, address and report number.

Hat Tip: Thanks to Tom at the sheriff's office for passing this along.