Strange Call of the Day
by Matt on Jul.27, 2008, under Insanity, Scanner Listening
As the massive thunderstorm came in, I flipped on the scanner to listen to local public safety, as there are often interesting things going on.
I don’t know the background, but here’s what I heard:
“Engines 2 and 3, you can cancel… The caller stated that he thought he had been struck by lightning, but he has not.”
I think that’s when you need an officer and an ambulance to respond for, as the Boston PD would call it, “a psych eval.”
Edit: These people tie with the people who called in a “past lighting strike” to report that they’d had a lightning strike in their yard earlier… They stated that their bugzapper, on their propane tank, had been struck earlier and exploded. I’m slightly confused about how their bugzapper got struck (maybe it was mounted to a tall tree, and the plug provided a nice ground?), more confused about why they thought it was a good idea to keep their bugzapper next to their propane tank, and most confused about why their home hasn’t been replaced by a large crater.
