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.<\/p>\n
I don’t know the background, but here’s what I heard:<\/p>\n
“Engines 2 and 3, you can cancel… The caller stated that he thought he had been struck by lightning, but he has not.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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<\/em>, 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it was a good idea to keep their bugzapper next to their propane tank, and most confused about why their home hasn’t been replaced by a large crater.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading