The strangest thing happened earlier today. He tells me we weren’t gone long at all. It seems like it was, to me, though. Did you miss me?
A madman in a blue box
August 17, 2013
fiction, geek, Humor, Personal Dr. Who, madman in a blue box, tardis 1 Comment
Oh, I didn’t just say that…
August 7, 2013
9-1-1, commentary, Personal 9-1-1 mishaps, 9-1-1 stories, dispatcher stories, hang gliding accident, paragliding accident Leave a comment
I can’t believe I said that to the 9-1-1 caller. It was unintentional, totally inappropriate, and had everyone in the room in fits of giggles.
Other dispatchers will understand the sometimes dark humor we express in our jobs, and how something that to an outside observer (or the brass) will seem completely humorless, but will have us guffawing and giggling for hours afterwards. Something like that happened to me yesterday, and it involved a crashed aircraft and it’s pilot stuck on a rockface above a lake.
I really meant it to be reassuring, but it sure didn’t come out that way!
JimmieJoe 
Full Moon Effect Disproven
August 21, 2013
Jim Reeves 9-1-1, commentary dispatcher stories, full moon, full moon effect, lunacy, police calls during full moon Leave a comment
People claim that emergency room nurses and police officers all swear by the “full Moon” lore, that insists everything goes nuts on a full Moon.
Well, last night I disproved it. Or, I should say, my dispatch center’s traffic levels disproved it.
Last night, at 6:45 pm Pacific Time, the Moon was full. It was a calm, peaceful night. No shootings, no stabbings (well, no stabbings by one person on another. There was one troubled kid who tried to stab himself, but for this discussion, he doesn’t count. He’s just a troubled kid, not a lunatic.) A few fights, a couple of loud music calls, a couple of badge bunnies, and a computer at one of the facilities that decided to let all the magic smoke out of it’s innards, setting off smoke alarms and scaring the DSOs. A really easy shift, all things considered.
Now, the night BEFORE the full Moon, that was just crazy town!
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