Tales From Dispatch, Pt. 54
ME: Dispatch, OFC Friendly. I'm sending you a disorderly conduct call. The reporting party found a homeless subject asleep in an alleyway by his business. FRIENDLY: 10-4, en route. *COWORKER behind me, is taking a call, a person who discovered a homeless subject on their property* COWORKER: Did you say you pulled a gun on the man? ... So he started to approach you, and that's when you pulled the gun on him. ME: Dispatch, Friendly. Listening to the calltaker on the phone behind me, the reporting party has the homeless subject at gunpoint. FRIENDLY: ...All righty then. OFC THOUGHTFUL: Dispatch, add me to that call. *COWORKER has been adding notes to her call as she speaks to her caller and...none of them are showing up in my call notes and I realize I have probably made a mistake* ME: That's clear, Thoughtful. Stand by regarding that confrontation, I may have mixed up this information with another call. *I review the call I'm dispatching with another one on the board and I definitely did mix them up* ME: Friendly, Thoughtful, for your call, there is no confrontation. No weapons involved. No disturbance. SGT: OIC, Dispatch. So, is there a call where the reporting party has someone at gunpoint? ME: (very sheepish) There is. That call is gonna be outside city jurisdiction, the sheriff's department is responding now.