Crouching What?!

There are many hours of the day where I have to listen to a police scanner and hear cops relay incidents that happen in the city.

There's always calls of "shots fired" or of a 10-1, which is a cop calling for backup. Some of the dispatchers who talk to the police and relay the messages can be enjoyable to listen to, as some receive ridiculous notifications. "Mrs. Adams called and said that some youngsters were outside playing loud music and misbehaving."

But the other night, a dispatcher relayed a call of "Crouching tiger, hidden prostitute."

Crouching what?

Yes. Apparently, someone called from a cell phone to say that a lady of ill repute was crouching behind some bushes and the caller wanted to report it to police.

Hearing that got my hopes up of hearing other possible calls. A gang disturbance in one of the larger hispanic neighborhoods (La Vallita) called in as: "Big Trouble in Little Village." A person stranded on a boat in Lake Michigan: "Seabiscuit." And so on and so forth.