For years, reporters in the WHAM 1180 radio newsroom in Rochester, New York, documented the wackiest emergency calls overheard on the police scanner:
“The people on the party barge can’t get the boat started.”
“The hospital put a cork in his nose, and that’s why it’s bleeding now.”
“The jumper missed… and hit the dirt.”
“Complainant says he’s been knocked over due to the wind.”
“A 325 pound male says the devil told him he was going to die tonight.”
“I decided not to arrest him, because I’m a nice guy. But I can go back there and arrest him if you want me to.”
“There’s a man laying on the street under a green blanket, nearly hit by a street cleaner.”
“Assault. She hit him with rubber cement.”
“Woman has a male in her backyard, lying in her hammock. Now sitting in her chair.”
“Suspect’s armed with a staple gun.”
“She is now pregnant from the 18-year-old sister’s boyfriend.”
“Can we get a tow truck? Apparently two guys were racing and didn’t know the road ended.”
“There’s bats in the house. There’s no emergency, and police don’t respond to bats.”
“A man at the residence pulled the phone out of the wall. He’s demanding they give him 20 dollars or he won’t give them the phone back.”