Calls From Last Night
Yesterday was ‘stupid call night.’ The calls we were getting were just ridiculous. Must have been something in the air. Here’s a couple I can remember. It’s a little paraphrased since I couldn’t remember the entire conversation. Names have been changed, of course.
Number 1:
Caller: Yeah I’d like to know if you have Joe Smith in custody?
Operator: No, we’ve no one in custody, I can give you the number to the Berkeley County Detention Center?
Caller: Well why would he be there? Who do they keep there.
Operator: Um, anyone who was arrested in Berkeley County.
Caller: Oh…….thanks.
Note: Who else do they keep in the jail? Innocent people? lol.
Number 2:
Caller: Hi, I don’t know if you’re gonna believe be, but I think I just saw a black bear run across the street to the golf course.
Operator: A black bear?
Caller: I swear, we haven’t been drinking.
Note: She’s right, I didn’t believe her, and neither did the officer. They went out there and they didn’t spot the bear. I think they were really calling because the bear didn’t pay his green fees and was golfing for free.
Number 3:
Caller: I heard a couple cars drive by just now, real loud, can I have an officer come out in the morning before I go to work in case anything was damaged.
Operator: In the morning? Ma’am we don’t schedule appointments. I can send an officer out now, or you can call back in the morning if there’s damage. You don’t know if anything is damaged?
Caller: No, I don’t. It’s too dark for me to tell.
Operator: Is there any way you can go look?
Caller: It’s dark outside, I don’t want to go out.
Operator: So you can’t tell if there’s any damage or not, but you want an officer, just in case there is?
Caller: Yes…
Operator: Okay did you want me to send an officer out now, or do you want to call in the morning
Note: The officer was sent out then, and lo and behold…nothing was damaged. Shocker!
PS – afterwards the supervisor came in and we had a good laugh about the bear call. It went along the lines of:
Officer: Dispatch, I’m out with a black bear, last name Bear, first name Yogi…
Dispatch: 10-4, I’m showing a warrant for that subject out of Jellystone Park, reference theft of pica-nick baskets.
It was an otherwise slow night.