Scanner Reports 3-30-18

By Roger the Scanner Guy

Will I was on that other website the otter day it’s the one everyone goes to that have no life anymore, they just sit and talks to all their friends there most of which they have never met, FACEBOOK that’s the one. I saw something about the program I was in back in the 70’s, it started in New Jersey then spread across the U.S. in an attempt to scare kids Straight and keep them from going to prison, Scared Straight. I believe it was 1974 when I went, us kids were paid by CETA to go spend a whole Saturday there. I think we all got about 60 Bucks each to go, I might be wrong on the money, (60 Bucks was a lot then.) But that is what I recall.

We went to Terre Haute prison in Indiana. We sat in an audience while several lifers told us their stories, then we were matched one on one with inmates who told us their stories. We were also shown pictures in black and white, not color, of inmate murders and suicides. None of that shit got to me, though most of the time I was sitting there I was thinking about what I was going to do with the money when I got paid. It was twenty bucks for an ounce of weed back then, under 5 bucks for a carton of Marlboros, and beer was real cheap. Although the Boys home I was in was close to a “Liquor is Quicker” warehouse, one of the neighborHOOD Gangs broke into the warehouse all the time and sold us the BOOZE cheap.

Though I did not want to EVER go to prison I thought that sooner than later. I was going there because I was meant to go there, violence was in my blood beaten into me at a young age, ingrained. A group of folks were talking about how Scared Straight never really worked because most of the kids in the program continued committing crimes though the crimes that were committed were not as serious as before. I guess this group did not study our group because some of our kids went on to commit some really horrible crimes. I too continued committing crimes but only under the influence of alcohol. There was a combination of things for me that helped me go straight, one of those was being inside of that prison and seeing the entrance of the populated area the Jail Bars from the floor to the ceiling close together no hope bleak, black, darkness of lost souls that might never see daylight again unforgiven, death row the visual of that place that one part of the prison exists in my mind as if it was planted there. It is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of breaking the law, and just that picture in my mind stops me in my tracks. So one small part of my experience of Scared Straight works for me One Day at a Time, one minute,one second like other things…New House 2 The House on the Hill, my saving grace and AA though I know longer go the good is ingrained in me where the violence once was. I wake up in the morning, not come to and freely come and go without having to look over my shoulder sit outside under the Sun warming my heart I feel love where hate once lived.

Here are your Scanner Reports, WEDnesday:

5 Homeless Folks refusing to leave the County Admin building property 105 East Anapamu.
Smoke investigation in the area of Parma Park 2100 Block of Stanwood.
2 Drinkers drinking alcohol between the Faulding hotel and the City parking lot.
Small black dog in and out of traffic Cravens lane and Via Real.
Heroin overdose 300 Block of South Voluntario.
Ill subject in front of the jail 4436 Calle Real.
Leaf Blower in the 100 Block of Oceano.
487 Grand Theft investigation of copper tubing 800 Block of East Mason.
415 On Bodega Lane 100 Block sounded like a Domestic.
Motorcyclist down 7600 Block of Foxen Canyon.
Report of Hot Prowl 11-7, On the 100 Block of South San Antonio Road.
Someone is Drunk in Isla Vista.
Homeless guy laying on a driveway West Guiterrez at De La Vina.
Subject with a possible felony warrant 1000 Block of Brierwood.
Wanted subject in the lobby of the SBPD 200 Block of East Figueroa, not for long.
5150 Beating walls with a hammer 1000 Block of Cliff Drive in a residence.
Lewd subject with his pants down at La Cumbre Plaza.
Loud Music complaint 1200 Block of Garden.
Women yelling, “Get off of me!” in a creek bed 300 Block of West DLG.
Shooting victim unknown circumstances 1300 Block of Rail Road in Santa Maria.
20002 Non injury hit and run investigation Castillo at Pueblo.
23152 Southbound on Anacapa in a white Mercedes a White couple in their 60’s.
Possible Hit and Run Cabrillo at Milpas vehicle into a pole.
415 At El Rancho Market between a customer taking pictures and the Manager 1502 San Andres.

Scanner Reports, Thursday:

Medical Call Paradise Cafe 700 Block of Anacapa.
In I.V. on Abrego the 6700 Block stolen Lap Top.
Check the welfare of an elderly female in the 3000 Block of Foothill.
Illegal leaf blower behind Chase Bank 1302 State street.
Medical call Fall from a roof 800 Block of Toro Canyon.
Probation check 816 Cacique PATH.
Suspicious subject 928 State wearing shorts, a trench coat with something long on his back under his coat possibly a rifle..I think they were Unable to Locate reminds me of this Secret Service man who was stationed at the Biltmore when Ray Gun was President.
Medical call at PATH 816 Cacique.
Female exposing herself at the MTD Station 1020 Chapala twice now.
200 Block of East Rice Ranch Road residential burglary.
Ocean View Avenue also had a residential burglary.
Fall victim in Winchells 202 North Milpas.
484 Theft 6300 Block of Hollister suspect caught.
Toaster oven fire 400 Block of West Mountain.
400 Block of North Nopal 374pc Peepee or Poopoo in public.
Premises check in Chase Palm Park.
20002 Non injury hit and run at K-Mart Suspect BMA in a white sedan front end damage and a cracked windshield in the plate a “607”.
Suspicious male taking pictures of homes in the 1200 Block of East Valley says he is from the County Clerks office wearing an orange vest Teams were responding to check him out.
Check the Welfare of a woman heard yelling 125 West Anapamu.
23103 Reckless green Subaru got off at Fairview part plate 67??774 all I heard.
Campers 600 Block of State Street

Will the weekend is upon us as is Pay Day and food lots of food which I love to eat. Someone posted a picture of government cheese on FaceBook, remember Government cheese? I’m sure some of you do that was some Good Stuff. So I went on a hunt of who made it in thee day because ya know I want some and from what I have gathered Land O Lakes was the maker of the Government cheese for those of you who might want to know that sounds about right to me anyway Have a great weekend…Peter, Belinda, Angel Baby, Pooh Bear, Thomisina, Clancy, Tiger, Midnight, Merlin, Poncho, Jerry, Walter, Fred, Jonathan, C.J., Brad, Billy, Carl, Stan, Kent, ELMO, Patrick, Christy, Diana, Jim, Rambo, Sherry, Bommy, Poppy, June, Muskie, David Cox, Poe, Bengy, Ricky, Marty, Cop John, Pat, Mavis, Magruder, Don, Edwin, Cory, Isabelle, Jerry, John Hancock, Mickey Mantle, Ernie Banks, Tom Petty, and Chris willing we will see you on MONday-MONday. Later, Roger