This is Pitt Bull-@#$%

This is my message for today: "People of earth: not every dog running loose in the streets is a Pitt Bull! I understand you are frightened but when you tell me the dog out your window is blonde with floppy ears, you are describing a lab and when you tell me it is a big black dog with tan dots over its eyes that is called a Rottweiler. Do you people not understand that Chows are the most dangerous dogs known to man? Sure they look like fuzzy teddy bears but they are insane....Where was I? Oh, yes, when you, citizens of the towns I work in, claim in hushed tones that the barking dog you can't see 6 streets over is a Pitt Bull, all respect I had for you goes out the window. As my annoyance grows, so does the time you will have to wait for an officer to respond. If you only knew that your amatuer dog breed analysis, made me react slower instead of faster, perhaps you would keep your Pitt hating comments to yourself." OK I am done with my rant. I know there are some mean Pitt Bulls out there, I get that, but that is usually because of bad owners and yes, sometimes bad breeding, but to write off and entire type of dog is just lame. To back up my claim, I have added a few pictures of Riley. She is my widdle cuddle bunny and she LOVES kids. I don't leave them alone together, I am not a moron, but I also don't live in fear of her attacking. Please show a little love to a breed that has gotten a bad rap.

Does That Make Me Craaaaazy?....Probably....

So I had my psych eval for "Close to Home PD" (CPD). And it went just fine. There are so many questions on those tests that you just wonder if anyone is ever stupid enough to be completely honest about them. I mean seriously, if a person did harbor secret attractions to small woodland creatures, has anyone ever marked the "True" bubble? I'm guessing, yes. My absolute favorite question of all the 2000+ questions was:

"My drug problem has never been an issue with my family life."

True! No wait, false cause I don't have a drug problem... No wait, if I say false it means it has been a problem.....Where is the "N/A" box????

Maybe I am 5150.....

True of False question on my Psych Eval today:


I am terrified in a windstorm.



..................Say what?

I am just curious if I had said yes, does that make me unfit to dispatch police officers? Perhaps just during windstorms.....More later.

11-99 Officer Down

I don't know what to say, I am not OK, today. Another CHP officer was killed a few days ago. This is a friend of my husband's. Someone he knew in the Marine Corps. We will travel to attend his funeral on Thursday. His wife is a former Marine wife, cop wife and police dispatcher, just like me. She is living my worst nightmare. Pray for the CHiPies, they are understaffed and overworked, and lately, they are dropping like flies.

Things That Make You Go.....What The ------????

I asked an RP of the guy who robbed him: "What race was he? White, Black, Hispanic or Asian?" and he replied, "Yes, that is right!"....Ummmm...I didn't know how to rephrase that question to make it more clear...

Malfunction, Malfunction, Malfunction

True story from when I was at Huge PD: Imagine a massive SWAT call out, with a dangerous felon barricading himself inside a small house, reportedly armed to the teeth. Wisely the decision was made to send in the new ultra high tech, majorly expensive robot. The plan was, that one of the specially trained SWAT members would remotely control the robot into the house, and over a radio built into the robot, the suspect would be given instructions to place the weapons onto a tray-like recepticale attached to the front of the robot, thus safely diffusing the situation. Unfortunately the plan was foiled, when after being deployed into the house, the ultra high tech, majorly expensive robot got tangled up in the suspect's drapes.

Oh, Little Radio Console, So Brave and True....

I sure missed coming to work this week! I know, I know, you think I am a total whack job, but me and Danger (not his real name, it's his middle name), have been sick and I have been completely stir crazy at home! Tonight, (and tomorrow night, and Friday night), I am working at Wonderful PD. I love it here. Just the fact that there is a bathroom here in dispatch, makes me love this place! What can I say, I am easily satisfied!

Officer "M" just brought his K9, into dispatch without warning me. I just saw this hulking form come running in. Then he jumped on me and slurped my face. I just about peed my pants. I keep telling him, you gotta warn me! Love that dog though. I have four big dogs at home, and so the K9 is always facinated with sniffing my shoes.

Not much happenin' here tonight, but I won't say the "Q" word, just in case. Is it just me, or does any other dispatcher out there, just hate getting barking dog and other noise complaints on 911? Even though I am the only one here, I still make them call back on the non emergency number most of the time, just for the principal of it. Well, that is all for now, til later!