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10-19-2008, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | Do you listen to police radio communication?
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Thinking about picking up a scanner... anyone use them?
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10-19-2008, 08:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Armueller2001  Thinking about picking up a scanner... anyone use them? |
My dad used to have a Bearcat scanner back in the day, I am not bored enough to care who needs an ambulance or who beats their wife in my neighborhood to actually spend time listening to it. |
10-19-2008, 08:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | my 'rents got one, its fun to hear some of my friends or peoples names get said over it. |
10-19-2008, 08:23 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | You may be wasting your money. More and more departments are going to silent dispatch, via in car computer. |
10-19-2008, 08:33 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Had one a long time ago.
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10-19-2008, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Mantua NJ, US | | | fun at times. gets boring quick.
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10-19-2008, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | I do. I've found it's only worth tuning in on friday and saturday nights when all the action is happening. Occasionally you hear of some cool stuff happening. One of my favourites was a drunk woman in Redfern (dodgy area in Sydney) smashing the windows of every single car that pulled up at the intersection she was at. What a nut job!!!
Also one night there was a drunk dude in a stolen car being chased by several police cars and a police chopper. I was listening in and then the chase actually came right down my street and past my house!!!
Good times.
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10-19-2008, 09:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | By the way if you want to save yourself the money of buying a scanner, there is almost ALWAYS people streaming it onto the internet. So you can listen just through your media player, and listen to any police force in the world pretty much (given that someone is streaming it). My dad is an aviation nut and streams the ground and tower frequencies for Kingsford Smith (Sydneys international airport) on the net. He gets quite a lot of listeners.
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10-19-2008, 09:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Parker, CO | | | No. |
10-20-2008, 06:27 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Yes, but then police radio traffic is a component of my job. |
10-20-2008, 07:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | | i am starting to have a life lol
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10-20-2008, 08:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | Only at night, when I don my crime-fighting alter-ego costume.
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10-20-2008, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Machias/Bangor, Maine | | | I used to, but I lost interest after a while.
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10-20-2008, 09:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Armueller2001 Thinking about picking up a scanner... anyone use them? | Probably a good idea, that way you will know when the fuzz are on there way to your place to stop music theft in progess! 
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10-21-2008, 09:01 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | When I'm working dispatch for our Lifeguard department we monitor the Police channels as well as Fire. Often a lot of their calls end up on our beach. I have heard actually heard names I know. Pretty funny. |
10-21-2008, 09:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Memphis,Tn | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CapnSev Only at night, when I don my crime-fighting alter-ego costume. | Would that be the Zardoz costume in your avatar?
Might get chilly...
I suggest pants. |
10-21-2008, 09:43 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ROON By the way if you want to save yourself the money of buying a scanner, there is almost ALWAYS people streaming it onto the internet. So you can listen just through your media player, and listen to any police force in the world pretty much (given that someone is streaming it). My dad is an aviation nut and streams the ground and tower frequencies for Kingsford Smith (Sydneys international airport) on the net. He gets quite a lot of listeners. | There are some weird people out there. |
10-21-2008, 09:51 AM
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10-21-2008, 10:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ROON I do. I've found it's only worth tuning in on friday and saturday nights when all the action is happening. Occasionally you hear of some cool stuff happening. One of my favourites was a drunk woman in Redfern (dodgy area in Sydney) smashing the windows of every single car that pulled up at the intersection she was at. What a nut job!!! | Oh man, if I was at an intersection and someone came up to my car with a bat I'd run that loon right over!
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10-21-2008, 10:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | There are websites that stream police communications. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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