A few more scanner tidbits from ace news associate Deb Phillips:
– Assist with a large fire in Valley Center. (Later) “You can disregard
that. It was 45 candles on a birthday cake putting out a lot of smoke.”
- From police channel: She’s calling about her neighbor shooting
death rays at her. Cop says: “We’d better stop at the store and get some aluminum foil.”
- Person called 911 to report a woman on her front porch taking
a sponge bath.
– 911 is called because someone is in a neighborhood “selling
vacuum cleaners suspiciously.”
– WPD looking for a shoplifter, last seen eastbound through the
parking lot from J.C. Penney wearing only a bra. (Let me guess what she took…)
- Disturbance with a pizza.
- Disturbance with a weedeater.
– Mom calls 911 to say her son, who’s wanted on probation
violation, is at his grandmother’s house. She helpfully gives his
description: he’s wearing baggy pants and a striped shirt – at least
that’s what he was wearing yesterday.
– A woman came home to find a little girl in her bed. (I’ll bet
she ate the poridge, too.)
- A woman called the 911 dispatcher to say that the kids were
outside digging worms, then hung up.
– Man called police because his neighbor came across the street
to mow his lawn and won’t stop.
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HI! I may have been one of the people mentioned in your notes – I called Wichita Police because there were two people selling cleaning supplies and I thought they were suspicious.
They said they were from Texas and were going door to door – this was about noon on a weekday – when most of the neighbors were at work.
After reading your post, I contacted the WPD via email and asked them if they wanted me or not – to contact them when suspicous people were in the area.
They replied that the DO want citizens to notify them of suspicous people or circumstances.
I was a Neighborhood Watch Block Captain and Block Leader for nine years. We were always told to notify police any time we observed suspicous activity.
THANKS.
It’s always a good idea to let the cops know when you think there’s suspicious activity in your ‘hood, val. Most of the calls we hear over the scanner are legitimate concerns. Many have prevented property crimes, some have saved lives, and some are just amusing in the deadpan, “Dragnet” tone they are broadcast in.
Good for you.