I thought some of you may get a chuckle out of some of the screw ups and stories I have after about 7 months on the job.
#1. To start this out there was a new dispatcher and a super boot (me). I was just released from fto and was just a few days into riding solo. I hear a call come over the radio, "all units in the area of blank and blank report to blank" The two streets at that intersection have very unique names and i didn't think to check the call list. I call 10-76 and flip my lights on and head to where i thought i should be. Suddenly the veteran dispatchers are like WTF freekforge where are you and what are you doing. completely confused i look at the call list and see that call wasn't even in my town heck it was on the other side of the county. Then my phone blows up and guys are calling me robo cop. haha good fun. Here i was thinking i was sheriff john bunnell and everyone else was thinking i was an idiot. The 2 of us are still catching crap on our mistakes.
#2 My brand new uniform pants were torn by a really mean chicken. enough said
#3 I always try to stop by and say hi to the kids at the elementary school if possible. I noticed on one of these stops that one of the teachers was a girl i went to school with. Me being the smooth ladies man i am I decided i would stop and play kick ball with the kids to impress her and you know do some community policing or something lol. I get out and play a couple games. During one of these im running to first base and some little punk blasts me in the head with the ball knocking me off my feet. I get up brush off and look back to see the teacher laid back on the picnic table laughing. I was beet red and tried to play it all off and finished the game and went back on patrol. I got a friend request and message from her that night asking if i had a headache. (I did get her number btw)
# 4 i have about 3 hours of me horribly singing 90s country songs, countless bathroom breaks, and fifteen minutes of me staring at a bird and asking myself what kind of bird it was recorded on a body cam because i forgot it was running.
Anyway just thought it would be fun to share some mistakes and stories i found funny.
#1. To start this out there was a new dispatcher and a super boot (me). I was just released from fto and was just a few days into riding solo. I hear a call come over the radio, "all units in the area of blank and blank report to blank" The two streets at that intersection have very unique names and i didn't think to check the call list. I call 10-76 and flip my lights on and head to where i thought i should be. Suddenly the veteran dispatchers are like WTF freekforge where are you and what are you doing. completely confused i look at the call list and see that call wasn't even in my town heck it was on the other side of the county. Then my phone blows up and guys are calling me robo cop. haha good fun. Here i was thinking i was sheriff john bunnell and everyone else was thinking i was an idiot. The 2 of us are still catching crap on our mistakes.
#2 My brand new uniform pants were torn by a really mean chicken. enough said
#3 I always try to stop by and say hi to the kids at the elementary school if possible. I noticed on one of these stops that one of the teachers was a girl i went to school with. Me being the smooth ladies man i am I decided i would stop and play kick ball with the kids to impress her and you know do some community policing or something lol. I get out and play a couple games. During one of these im running to first base and some little punk blasts me in the head with the ball knocking me off my feet. I get up brush off and look back to see the teacher laid back on the picnic table laughing. I was beet red and tried to play it all off and finished the game and went back on patrol. I got a friend request and message from her that night asking if i had a headache. (I did get her number btw)
# 4 i have about 3 hours of me horribly singing 90s country songs, countless bathroom breaks, and fifteen minutes of me staring at a bird and asking myself what kind of bird it was recorded on a body cam because i forgot it was running.
Anyway just thought it would be fun to share some mistakes and stories i found funny.