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Scanner Traffic — 3/31/09

Posted by DFO

March 31, 2009 4:49 p.m. • 15 comments

4:55 p.m. R/P received porn on her phone and would like to report it.
4:50 p.m. 2 juveniles on motorcycles are tearing up driveways @ Ramsey & Garwood.
4:21 p.m. Caller wants to talk to an officer re: some alpacas across the street.
3:33 p.m. A vehicle has rolled over an embankment and come to rest near water. But I can’t determine where the accident occurred.
2:29 p.m. Suicide threat in Athol.
2:19 p.m. 2 men driving pickups have finished fighting @ 12th & Lunceford.
1:52 p.m. A homeless person is living in a field near a Viking Construction site.
12:56 p.m. Dispatcher reports icy conditions under slush on Fourth of July Pass.
12:21 p.m. A suicidal woman is demanding drugs or she’ll blow her brains out.
Morning roundup below

11:57 a.m. R/P wants to see an officer re: the theft of reptiles.

11:27 a.m. A vehicle has rolled into a creek @ Dodd & Rimrock roads/Hayden Lake. All occupants are out of the vehicle.

10:42 a.m. Construction spray has set off fire alarm @ Lakes Middle School.

10:18 a.m. Woman 24 weeks pregnant asks to be checked medically after being involved in a two-car crash @ 3rd & Miller/CdA.

9:33 a.m. ISP trooper reports that two cattle trucks with Alberta, Canada, plates are traveling 70 mph through Athol on Highway 95.

9:32 a.m. R/P reports that a black pickup is pulling a green Escort with only a tow rope on I-90 at speeds up to 78 mph.

15 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cindy_H on March 31 at 1:56 p.m.
“A suicidal woman is demanding drugs or she’ll blow her brains out.”

Spring break is hard on those of with children who work from home.
toadman on March 31 at 1:58 p.m.
“1:52 p.m. A homeless person is living in a field near a Viking Construction site.”

How is this a crime? Is he hurting someone?
toadman on March 31 at 1:59 p.m.
“12:21 p.m. A suicidal woman is demanding drugs or she’ll blow her brains out.”

For Chrissake, someone give that woman what she wants…and pass me a bottle as well.
DFO on March 31 at 2:09 p.m.
Toad; I’m just the messenger who tries to repeat the snippets I hear on the scanner. Don’t blame me for the weird stuff that comes over.
toadman on March 31 at 2:13 p.m.
Not blaming you Dave.. just asking questions, is all. I know you’re just relaying what you hear.
JeanieSpokane on March 31 at 2:57 p.m.
2:29 Suicide threat in Athol - same as the one at 12:21?
toadman on March 31 at 3:03 p.m.
“2:19 p.m. 2 men driving pickups have finished fighting @ 12th & Lunceford” - and are waiting for referees to decide the winner.

;-)
hhuseland on March 31 at 5:24 p.m.
Shooting one’s self isn’t like Athol. Normally they shoot at others.

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