Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world 18-24-61-B-17-17-4 @lemmy.world 5mo ago

This alert I just got on my police scanner app. Kentucky, WTF are you doing?

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This is just poor transcription.

The full conversation was as follows:

Officer 1: "I like those big cats."

Officer 2: "Yeah? Tigers or leopards?"

Officer 1: "Which is spotted?"
- I thought it was about gardening
  
  Officer 1: There's a garden of nightshade
  
  Officer 2: That could be tomatoes or potatoes
  
  Officer 1: Which is potted?
  
  Definitely a crossword.
  
  Officer 1: Thirteen down. Ten letters. Another name for a cauldron. Starts with 'w', ends with 't'.
  
  Officer 2: That's a witches' pot, Ted.
  
  Pretty sure it was: Officer 1: arrest that stoner, he pirated Oppenheimer!
  
  Officer 2: I got two guys here chief, both look like the hacker type, using something in their phones called "Lemmee?"
  
  Officer 1: Which is pothead?
- I like “witches spotted” much better
At this point if witches started attacking id barely even skim the article before going back to scrolling.
- "Good for them"
I live in IN, across the river from KY. This sounds completely on brand.
- Do you ever take the time to gaze across the river and feel like you're looking at a zoo enclosure?
  
  Looking across the river into Kentucky from Indiana, is like being a bonobo in one zoo enclosure looking at the enclosure next to yours' full of chimpanzees.
any updates?
- Turns out she was a duck, so they let her go.
  
  Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
- Unfortunately not. Once I had tuned in they either weren't talking about it anymore or switched to an encrypted channel. In my mind I'd like to believe it's the second 'cause some crazy ass bullshit is going down with some witches in Kentucky.
  
  At this link you can try to listen back if you know the time it happened. I love that scanner app. It pulls from Broadcastify.com
  
  Link: https://www.broadcastify.com/archives/feed/34633
- They burned her.
Perhaps he's affecting a Cockney accent and saying "Which 'es spott'ed"

The computer just didn't know what to do with the "innit"
Police scanner app?
- I'm gonna assume you're not from the US given your lemmy instance. In the US most police radios transmit "in the clear", i.e., not encrypted. As such, anyone can buy a "police scanner", or a radio on the same band as police/first-responder frequencies.
  
  In the internet age, there's websites (and apparently apps now too), that physically monitor these radio channels and stream them online. Hence, a "police scanner app". Hope that helps.
  
  Having typed all that out, the only thing I ask is to let us know where you're from, please.
  
  So wait need for speed radio chatter could be something street racers actually had??? I had no idea, I always thought it was kind of silly
  
  One of the Mexican countries
  
  You assume correctly, UK. Seems kind of crazy, but the other reply chain explains it.
- Yup
What app is this, and do you recommend it?
- Scanner Radio Pro. Uses the feeds from broadcastify.com which used to be part of the RadioReference network.
The more things change, right?

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