Subscriber Comments for
Scanner report - Aug 13

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COMMENT 97465P	2010-08-13 07:22 AM
Roger, I love reading your reports. You are a poet.
COMMENT 97489	2010-08-13 08:25 AM
Yeah...he's the Robert Frost of bodily excretions...
COMMENT 97465P	2010-08-13 08:33 AM
Roger, I do have a question, please. In reading the SBCFireDispatch,http://twitter.com/SBCFireDispatch, I would like to know the differences in these terms: 1. Medical Emergency 2. Public Assist- All 3. Code 2 medical 4. Code 3 medical I'm pretty sure that Code 2 medical is more of an emergency than Code 3 medical, but are those two trumped by "Medical Emergency"? "Public Assist-All", does that mean that all police in area are to respond?
COMMENT 97465P	2010-08-13 09:00 AM
Today is Friday, the 13th. Good luck!
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-13 10:08 AM
Well I wrote a big long letter, then I hit the wrong thing it must bee Flyday the 13th! Darn it! Here we go again. Medical Emergency is a medical emergency Code 2 is expidate but not an emergency usually the lights are on with a code 2 but no siren. Code 3 is emergency lights and Siren. Code 4 is no assistence neccessary. A public assist is when say someone falls down and they cannot get up, or they cannot get out of the tub, usually someone who is handicapped, or elderly. There's also lift assist help lifting someone or thing up. Or if the patient is heavy and the medic's or firemen, need help they will request another unit for manpower, usually they need 4 engine companies to lift me up and sometimes a crane. I hope that answers your question if not let me know. If anyone would like a question answered let me know here, or e-mail Ed it will get to me. Thank You Roger
COMMENT 97465P	2010-08-13 10:52 AM
Thank you, Roger, for the explanation. Very helpful. Have a great Flyday the 13th!
COMMENT 97612	2010-08-13 02:39 PM
Thanx for the laughs, Roger. I sure as heck needed it, Happy Flyday the 13th. On my way to probably being one of those hopeless shopping cart ladies. Love the locals .
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-13 03:26 PM
If your on your way to being a hopeless chopping kart lady swope past here I could use a girlie fiend.
COMMENT 97647	2010-08-13 04:24 PM
Roger - sometimes I see a code that is C3ECHO on the SBC Fire Dispatch feed. Any idea what that one is?
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-14 06:22 AM
No, I have an idea but I'd rather not say since I don't know.
COMMENT 97733	2010-08-14 08:09 AM
Did you hear anything about an injured bicyclist on Thursday (about 5:25?) at State and Mission?
COMMENT 97741P	2010-08-14 08:32 AM
Pls keep this format for your reports. Much easier to read than the long screeds previously. Thanks!
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-14 11:18 AM
Why do I half to do what you want? I'm righting it the way I want. I'll PEE you on Monday! @ 97733 No sorry I didn't hear about the bicyclist.
COMMENT 97790	2010-08-14 11:32 AM
Couple nites ago, middle of the nite, there was a drunk driver that smashed into a parked Honda SUV, which pushed it into another parked vehicle. This happened on northbound 1300 blk of San Andres st / cross street Victoria. Police said the registration was expired and driver fled from hospital and has not been seen since. I think the victims should do a little research to track this drunk idiot down and get him. Police should of arrested him on the spot, or at least kept him in handcuffs at the hospital.
COMMENT 97815	2010-08-14 01:28 PM
It has become too depressing to keep reading Roger's scanner reports. All drugs, alcohol, gangs, vagrants and domestic violence and no one wants to do anything about this. Everyone just wants to make excuse for all this. So why bother to even reading about the problems when they are always the same old things but with new names day after day after day. Bye Roger.
COMMENT 97817	2010-08-14 01:40 PM
In my opinion, the scanner gives a "skewed' picture of what makes up this town. Mostly useless, trivial info - stopped reading it long ago.
COMMENT 97465P	2010-08-14 01:50 PM
Thank you Roger for keeping at this scanner job. Edhatters are crazy about you, and want the information about crime in Santa Barbara. Without you, we would be clueless. TOBYCAT, I've noticed you show up on several threads and complain about Edhat, or that/any particular thread. Yet...there you are, again and again. I'm glad that you are curious.
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-14 02:24 PM
@ TobyCat, Then why are you commenting? I guess because you have it in for anyone who does not agree with your lifestyle. You can't control the reports so you have to ruin it for other people. Your way or thee highway? I can totally understand @ Comment 97815's comment it is depressing and it's horrible too. Just close the door and pretend it doesn't exist till one day your careless and something weird happens, or you might be in the percentage of people that nothing bad ever happens too. There's many people living in Santa Barbara that don't get robbed, ripped off, assaulted, in one way or another. Maybe they live in a better neighborhood. I've always been a better safe than sorry sort of guy. I want to know what's going on crime wise in my community. It's my right to know what's going on where I live. I worked for many years before I got hurt, I paid taxes, I still pay taxes. I'll never stop paying taxes. As far as doing something about the problems that plague the Santa Barbara, you can't depend on other people to do anything if you want something changed you have to do something yourself. I'm not saying drop everything change your life, donate your retirement work 20 years as a missionary at the corners of Cacique and Milpas. Say a prayer to your higher power, lower power, or no power at all for someone, say "Hello" and smile at someone you pass on the street. Just those two actions can make a world of difference. You would be surprised what just greeting someone can do especally to someone who's depressed. I'm not going to try and talk anyone into sticking around, but if you expect change you got to get involved, don't have to do much. My last comment was a joke. @97790, I agree they should have had a guard on the persons room, they were probably really busy, if your friend has the suspects personal information they might be about to fill out a report themselves at the police department 215 East Figourea. Will @TOBYCAT, Why don't you get white letters so everyone could see who you are?
COMMENT 97815	2010-08-14 03:18 PM
Its a myth that one can do things that can help when a lot of us are doing just that. As long as there are those who rebut everything we try to do and take snide swipes at each and every positive suggestion, the task becomes futile. No smiles on the street don't do a darn thing when it is all about drugs, booze, gangs, vagrants and domestic violence. Mention getting rid of drugs - oooooh no!. Mention putting addicted vagrants in state hospitals ...... ooooh, no! Mention cleaning up our streets .......oooooh no! NIMBYS, Nimrods, Negative Vibes ...... that is the harvest trying to get things changed. So all we do is keep mucking around and sinking deeper and deeper into more trouble while all those nay-sayers for any and all suggestions are the ones living with their heads in the sand while the rest of us who have been on the front lines are ready to give up.
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-14 04:27 PM
Do what you want it's your life.
COMMENT 97846	2010-08-14 04:39 PM
I love your reports Roger!
COMMENT 97879	2010-08-14 09:14 PM
The scanner report continues to be my favorite Edhat feature. It's that cold glass of water after a long hot run. Sure, it shows the'dark side' of SB, but I suppose that is because it is the [police] scanner report, as opposes to the cute and fluffy kittens and puppy report (both featured in Edhat) or the pretty sunset picture (also conveniently featured in Edhat)
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-14 09:58 PM
@97836, I have been on the front lines for many years. Taken people in fed em, bathed them, housed them and never took a dime and I never gave up. I did however get tired of getting ripped off, threatened, having knifes pulled on me, punched. I'm too old for that. Talk your macho self rightous jab, but don't think even for a second you know who I am. I know those smiles work because I have also been way down in the dumps of suicidal despair and those smiles worked for me, they gave me hope. So there! It sounds to me like it's your career and you hate it. Do something else then. Thank You Katie H. for your comments and @ 97846 for yours.
COMMENT 97815	2010-08-15 09:42 AM
No one is asking for fluffy kittens, unicorns and rainbows. Just the opposite. One is asking for recognition of the deadly patterns and direction of resources targeting those forms of repeated social malaise and malfunction: drugs, alcohol, gangs, vagrants and domestic violence. The solution is not smiles. Any really solution requires those offenders come to the table too, or suffer real consequences rather than being continually buffered from their own change by those who love to make excuses for them. We got the picture: drugs, alcohol, gangs, vagrants and domestic violence and what is also obvious is the common denominator running through all of these: drugs and alcohol. And the common denominator with both drugs and alcohol is chemically dropping out of life and its reponsibility. Until we target drug and alcohol addiction, we are throwing money down a rat hole.
ROGER DODGER	2010-08-15 12:48 PM
Someone sounds like they are on a dry drunk.

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