Subscriber Comments for
Monday Night Scanner Report

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COMMENT 35253	2009-08-25 03:31 PM
I saw that Dodge Challenger you mentioned racing another car Monday evening on the freeway. Gonna hurt somebody!
COMMENT 35255	2009-08-25 03:37 PM
Roger, congrats on getting your own EdHat logo!
ROGER DODGER	2009-08-25 04:45 PM
Thank You, it's very nice I like it now I feel as though there's alittle life in me..
COMMENT 35282	2009-08-25 10:10 PM
I love that this news is reported, when official news sources aren't covering it all. Constructive Criticism for Roger Dodger though: Fairview and Foothill never meet, let alone in Goleta - RP I believe means "Reporting Person" - "their" does not equal "there" does not equal "they're." This is why I and Kevin805 and others will continue to ask for proofreading/editing of Roger's news reports here. There is news and then there is hear say. What Roger is doing here is hear say and not news! True news has verification and editing staff and this is not news. I'LL SAY AGAIN when I click on "Local News" here I see either verified news sources or some professional columnists that understand that posting here is a form of journalism. I love that we get the underground reporting from Roger but there's got to be some sort of filter, please!
GOWEST	2009-08-25 10:40 PM
Z28 - I have read enough of Roger's posts to know that when I click on his link I will read a raw rendition of the police report. I don't expect Elements of Style, and I don't expect Woodward and Bernstein. But I like it. I like the content and the way it reads. If this isn't the type of thing you want to read, I would suggest not clicking on the link.
COMMENT 35292	2009-08-26 12:31 AM
GoWest has a good point, RacerGirl .... if anyone has a problem reading "around" Roger's sometimes unorthodox scanner reporting, leave it to others to enjoy its "right-out-of-the-box" freshness .....
COMMENT 35296	2009-08-26 07:24 AM
So much for education... Sigh. OK, "raw" reporting will prevail here? Ed just lost a notch of credibility. What's next? Shall I learn "twitter-ese" and get a column full of gems like BFF and BRB and TTYL and whatever else passes for communicating in English? Ridiculous! Of course I can "read around it" but that's not the point.
ROGER DODGER	2009-08-26 08:28 AM
Style and Grace, I aien't no ballet dancer..And Foothill at Fairview was what I heard on the scanner that evening..Yes people love the "Local news" here the "Stepford local news" Will watch the Everything is bright, and beautiful sunshinning news put a big smile on your face news..Nothing bad ever happens here and that sells hotel rooms, sucks the cash right out of the tourists paws..The restraunts are full who gives a damn what your insides look like when it's beautiful outside??? Who gives a damn? "Oh some say they care till it gets uncomfortable and then they pass the buck on someone else and tell them to do it...I know my grammer stinks..I would like to make it better. I have many books that might help but for some reason I just don't get it..I guess I need "Grammer for Brain Damaged idoits.." If that book is on the market I'll find it when it comes to my favorite thrift store in a few years and then I'll get right on it...You'll see I could change. Then you and Kevin will be happy too..Constructive criticism, my eye.
COMMENT 35307	2009-08-26 08:40 AM
Z28RACEGIRL-Constructive Criticism for you - "hear say" does not equal hearsay. I like Roger Dodger's on-the-fly type of reporting. Stop nitpicking, it's tiresome. Roger has acknowledged he has grammar problems. Give it a rest.
COMMENT 35313	2009-08-26 08:56 AM
Z28 - Don't be such an elitist. Edhat has more credibility because they'll post news even if it isn't written in the King's English. I think that's a good thing.
COMMENT 35315	2009-08-26 09:03 AM
In Roger the Scanner Guy's defense, RP can mean Reporting Party or Responsible Party. I think on CHP Incident it usually means the former though. http://cad.chp.ca.gov/htm/body_glossary.htm#r
COMMENT 35316	2009-08-26 09:05 AM
Z28RACEGIRL don't read it if the grammar bothers you. Roger Dodger is doing a great job, keep it up!
COMMENT 35317	2009-08-26 09:06 AM
Many people are illiterate or unable to spell or write a coherent sentence. Given some of the reasoning expressed here, newspapers should print their stories as written? Edhat is an online newspaper where the paper is virtual. Anticipating an argument: that it is free is not an excuse, no more than if the Indy were filled with such sentences. Quite a few of these errors, "grammer," for instance, would be picked up by a simple computer spell-check. It's RD's right to not to bother; it's edhat's right to also not bother. However, those who write that one doesn't have to read what's presented are also right.
COMMENT 35318	2009-08-26 09:15 AM
I don't think anyone is trying to directly critique Roger...his stream of consciousness reporting adds a certain frenetic interest to the articles. The issue is that Ed seems to want to have it both ways...moderate the comments but not edit the content as a true news provider would.
COMMENT 35319	2009-08-26 09:24 AM
Z28 Racergirl - get over yourself and your great education. Have you or Kevin805 ever listened to a scanner? Have you? This is how the calls come in, and they come in fast. Unless you or anyone else can, and will, do better please cease and desist. BTW - This is not an "Online Newspaper".
EDONE	2009-08-26 09:40 AM
Online newspaper? Ouch, that hurts.
JUSTICE3	2009-08-26 10:04 AM
Listening live to scanner communications might be amusing from time to time but reading them in print long after the fact? I don't get it - not being snarky - and would appreciate anyone explaining why they like reading this, with or without good grammar or spelling?
COMMENT 35318	2009-08-26 10:09 AM
Because there is no other local media outlet which reports on the rather shocking amount of crime going on behind the scenes in our little piece of "paradise", or as Roger says, all we have is "Stepford News"
COMMENT 35328	2009-08-26 10:13 AM
I like reading it because I'm in another city during the week and it's "fun" to find out what's going on. Not quite the same thing as being there, but it is interesting. I can envision the sirens there instead of here! It provides a little slice of life. The act of stening/reading to scanner communications might be compared to watching webcams from various locales just to see the weather or find out what those darn cute penguins are doing now. I thought watching the snow covering the monkeybars at Tejon Elementary pretty fascinating. Even the Red Cup Chronicles get boring if that's all you're reading - so mix it up!
COMMENT 35329	2009-08-26 10:19 AM
I happen to like Roger Dodger's reports - as is - without any interference. If Edhat wants to catch the language/grammar errors, fine, but not required - by me. But I am tired of hearing people go on and on about it. If you don't like it, don't read it. Give this guy a break. It comes off as arrogance, to keep after someone's language, to keep pointing out someone else's lack of education. RD does fine in communicating the message. I understand him. Thank you, RD.
AGENTSME	2009-08-26 10:26 AM
Thank you Roger Dodger for taking the time to report. Thank you EdHat for giving Roger a voice that we can choose to check out.
ROGER DODGER	2009-08-26 11:22 AM
There is a registered sex offender at the corner of Constance and State Street a 290 registent getting picked up by the police for lewd conduct..He is also listed in MegansLawCa.Gov right now. Thank You for your comments I guess this is as good a time as any to say I will NEVER EVER run for public office.
COMMENT 35339	2009-08-26 11:28 AM
Keep up the good work R.D.
RLMCDON	2009-08-26 11:44 AM
It's not elitist, nor is it indicitive of a "great education" to know the difference between there, their, and they're. I'm a product of our local public school system and SBCC without a degree and I've known the difference since grade school. I love to get all the extra news through these scanner reports, but it's much more tedious then it should be because of the poor spelling and grammer. Can I over-look it? Sure! But I do feel like I shouldn't have to. The info does come fast, but how hard is it to go back and check your spelling, grammer, etc before hitting "post"?
COMMENT 35318	2009-08-26 11:55 AM
Doesn't Das Williams live at the corner of Constance and State?
COMMENT 35317	2009-08-26 12:10 PM
Why isn't it an "online newspaper"? And why the "ouch"? As a lover of newspapers, I see that as a compliment and meant it as a fair description. ("newspaper" filled with information, news, including letters and pictures.) If it was taken as not a compliment, then I am sorry! I think Edhat does a great job and I look at it first thing in the morning as I would my daily newspaper ...and perhaps more, throughout the day, since the news keeps trickling in.
EDONE	2009-08-26 12:39 PM
We are a community website. In our opinion, the internet will provide a much better experience than paper ever did ... especially on a local level.
COMMENT 35318	2009-08-26 01:25 PM
Better, or just different? As highlighted by many of the comments here, good editing for readability is a valuable function of a traditional newspaper editor. With Twitter and IM, I can easily foresee the day when we are all talking in 140 character blurbs and nothing of substance can ever be discussed.
EDONE	2009-08-26 01:30 PM
Better. Much better. That's why we keep going.
COMMENT 35360	2009-08-26 01:43 PM
ED: Considering what you have stated here, then wouldn't it be more honest to label the "local news" section more accurately? Perhaps "Community Information" with a caveat that the information may or may not be true, has not been edited, verified or sourced, and therefore should not be consdered news. Roger effort rocks - he just deserves better. If his work did not appear in a section that is supposed to be news - he's good to go. If you edit his work so that it is news in the news section he is good to go. That said, I won't comment on this topic again.
COMMENT 35361	2009-08-26 02:12 PM
No, El Smurfo, the corner of State and Constance Streets is just the site where Das Williams once gave one of his more note-worthy campaign speeches..... if remembered correctly, it was also reported recently as the site where some of Santa's elves got busted while fleeing their flagship meth lab clad solely in their docker boxers. Think the whole gang is still rounded up down at the SB County jail awaiting extradition to the North Pole.
COMMENT 35318	2009-08-26 02:35 PM
Pretty sure he lived in one of those affordable senior condos on that corner during the last campaign tour video? Those places have nice big garages for the matching Prius fleet.
COMMENT 35367	2009-08-26 02:58 PM
Like certain publishers of local newspapers, does Ed even proclaim to be a professional journalist who some would think needs to be held up to certain "higher standards" that have traditionally been expected from historical news sources such as the "real" local media that readers here like to "end-run" with more up-to-the-minute reality reporting? Seems like Edhat is a community news "forum" where the good people down at their virtual headquarters probably put in a "good faith" effort and many long hours to place what they constructively think is "interestesting" news from community sources on their daily email site for others to selectively read and comment upon .... ;)
COMMENT 35317	2009-08-26 04:57 PM
I still think the "local news" functions as an online newspaper - I shouldn't have written "is an online newspaper." As for whether the internet will provide a better "experience" the jury is still very much out on that question. If one's looking for information, facts, verifiable, reliable, other than the NYT, and other major newspaper-connected sites, as well as the Huffington Post, it's got a long way to go. It's a reading experience and that's what a newspaper is, but without the eye-strain. Imo, this "community website" that's an aggregator of other media's coverage plus citizen reports is a different thing and definitely not better than a good newspaper, at least for being informed. As a newspaper does, it does depend on readability but unlike newspaper stories, there's rarely any original depth. One thing that good newspapers/magazines have is fact-checking. That's missing here and probably irrelevant, since it's lots of opinions, which are often entertaining, even addicting. Kevin805 makes a good point, community info, rather than "news". And I, too, am over and out on commenting on the issue . Edhat has evolved away from the flowers and birds pix and that's probably a good thing or maybe neither a good nor a bad thing, just an is. For sure, relatively few of us would want to be jumped on the way RD has been and good for him for hanging in there. side-note: I believe from the LWV video from the last election that Das Williams did live in/did own one of the condos at the Constance/State area; it's not senior affordable housing (I think you're referring to his father's that the NP constantly attacks on Quinientos). Whether he still lives there now, I don't know.
COMMENT 35420	2009-08-27 01:47 AM
ROGER DODGER, keep up the good work, I appreciate you adding to the local news content on this site.
COMMENT 35424	2009-08-27 07:50 AM
Someone said RD should be in a diffrent section - I like it grouped with the local news. I don't want to have to click else where. Why criticize someone who is sharing police scanner news ( must not be super clear anyways or easy to decipher) with the edhat community for free? Thanks RD for giving us information that we would not know about otherwise.
ROGER DODGER	2009-08-27 09:42 PM
Until they pry my cold dead index finger off the keys I'll be here.

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