Counting Sheep at Bedtime

November 9, 2004 by
Filed under: Can't Make This Up, Life, Travel 

So, I’m lying in bed last night reading before going to sleep.  I still have the police scanner on.

I hear:

“Station 40, respond to the Turnpike mile marker xx.x northbound on an overturned vehicle with possible entrapment.  Use caution for sheep running around on the highway.”

And suddenly my head pops up.  They repeat the dispatch identically.

The story:
Newsday Story

You can’t make this stuff up.

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  1. Sarah on Wed, 17th Nov 2004 12:15 pm

    2. You know, if you did report it, you’d be accused of making it up. Someone would be sure to say, “Aw sure, tell me another one!”

    Then there was the day my horse walked in my kitchen door while I was doing laundry….

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