my friend talks to me about cop radio

fire400

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they're on the highway and they start playing with their walkies

they pick up a cop signal and start talking back

"car on highway 36 running a hundred"

-copy that

the next thing you know a car is pulled over

they do it twice and damn... happens again

last they did: "cop down on 36!"
-hangs up line and shuts off walky

-end of story
 

olds

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Originally posted by: fire400
they're on the highway and they start playing with their walkies

they pick up a cop signal and start talking back

"car on highway 36 running a hundred"

-copy that

the next thing you know a car is pulled over

they do it twice and damn... happens again

last they did: "cop down on 36!"
-hangs up line and shuts off walky

-end of story

QF the st. paul/minneapolis police

http://www.stpaul.gov/depts/police/ policeinfo@ci.stpaul.mn.us
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/ minneapolis311@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
 

KLin

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I hope your friend is caught and they cops beat the crap out of him :thumbsdown:
 

halik

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Originally posted by: fire400
they're on the highway and they start playing with their walkies

they pick up a cop signal and start talking back

"car on highway 36 running a hundred"

-copy that

the next thing you know a car is pulled over

they do it twice and damn... happens again

last they did: "cop down on 36!"
-hangs up line and shuts off walky

-end of story

umm an unathorized use of the police band is a felony
 

LordMaul

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When they heard "cop" it tipped them off, most likely, that you're just a moron. I've never heard a cop say something like, "Hey, can you guys send another cop over here?" It's more along the lines of "officer needs assistance". ;)
 

snoopdoug1

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Originally posted by: LordMaul
When they heard "cop" it tipped them off, most likely, that you're just a moron. I've never heard a cop say something like, "Hey, can you guys send another cop over here?" It's more along the lines of "officer needs assistance". ;)

lol, good thought.

And also, i hope your friend gets busted w/ a felony :)
 

jlbenedict

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Are police using any sort of encrypted communications now days? I'm sure they don't just openly broadcast on a wide open "walkie talkie" channel.
 

Sphexi

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Unless they're completely under-funded and using 30 year old technology, police use encrypted/keyed systems that you have to have a special radio and code to be able to use. Sometimes you can pick them up on a scanner if they're using standard frequencies, but not just any "walkie-talkie" will work on those frequencies, you need to get special radios that are fairly expensive.
 

jlbenedict

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Originally posted by: Sphexi
Unless they're completely under-funded and using 30 year old technology, police use encrypted/keyed systems that you have to have a special radio and code to be able to use. Sometimes you can pick them up on a scanner if they're using standard frequencies, but not just any "walkie-talkie" will work on those frequencies, you need to get special radios that are fairly expensive.

Thats exactly what I thought. In addition to the police using encryption/keying.. the alleged pranksters that the OP mentions would ALSO have to have the same issued encryption/keying in order to communicate with all officers on the network.

 

marvdmartian

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Originally posted by: Sphexi
Unless they're completely under-funded and using 30 year old technology, police use encrypted/keyed systems that you have to have a special radio and code to be able to use. Sometimes you can pick them up on a scanner if they're using standard frequencies, but not just any "walkie-talkie" will work on those frequencies, you need to get special radios that are fairly expensive.

Don't know about that. I live in a medium sized city (~100K population), and the police just late last year/early this year switched over to a digital system that regular scanners/scanner walkie-talkies can't listed in on. The news people were losing their minds over it, until the cops finally agreed to give them a courtesy call whenever something newsworthy was going on. :roll:
 

PrelateBishop

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Why would you even post something this blatantly idiotic? If it is true, and I highly suspect that it is not, then your friend is truly a moron on an unprecedented scale.