Didn't have as much time to keep an ear on things tonight as I would have liked, but I am working on a couple of interesting features. So, be sure to hit the subscribe button up top, to your right.
The evening started fairly innocently with a pursuit in southwest Oklahoma City, reminding me why I live in Norman. However, the quiet upon the scanner ended abruptly with a seizure at Louie's on Campus Corner.
It ain't a party until somebody breaks out in a seizure.
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Fire crews were called to the University Commons apartments about 9:15 p.m., and this had all the makings of a big deal. An alert neighbor heard the smoke detector go off in an adjacent apartment and smelled smoke, so this person called 911.
Yay, smoke detector!
Turns out, thankfully, that it was just a pot of beans burning on the grill, which I thought was not supposed to happen via the wise words of George and Weezy Jefferson.
Fish don't fry in the kitchen;
Beans don't burn on the grill.
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About 30 minutes later, emergency crews were called to Main and University where a man was spotted lying on the ground and clutching his head, yelling out "Help me!"
A bicycle was spotted in the area, which might explain things. Perhaps somebody does not understand that bicyclists have just as much of a right to the road as anybody else. Or perhaps our headache-riddled bicyclist was drunk, unaware of objects ahead of him.
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An odd call after midnight, relative to a dog vs. human fight of some sort. I couldn't make out what was happening, but it did not sound like a "dogfight," a la Michael Vick. This sounded like a dog and a human in a fight along Carter Avenue.
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Finally, I caught two of three Oklahoma City APBs that went out after 12:30 a.m., and this first one sounds serious. Authorities are looking for a pair of Mexican men in a blue Peterbilt with produce in the front of the trailer and 5,000 or 6,000 kilos of 10-75 in the back.
I'm guessing that "10-75" or "1075" might be cocaine. However, according to this list of Okla. police codes, 10-75 refers to intoxicated drivers. So, maybe they are carting almost 6,000 kilos of drunks across the country, doing their families a public service by not allowing them to drive.
Kidding. In all seriousness, this truck was last seen on Aug. 11 in the Oklahoma City area, heading east on Interstate 40.
In the second APB, police are on the lookout for a 67-year-old woman from Lucas, Texas, whose debit card was recently used in Atoka. They are looking for a 2003 Pontiac in this case, and I suspect they are concerned for her safety, not looking for her in connection with, let's say, a string of beheadings.
Like I've noted before, these Norman, Okla., scanner reports harm no police, fire or emergency officials and are posted well after they happen, meaning that active pursuits, situations, etc., are never threatened. They are posted to give Normanites and those who love Norman a behind-the-scenes look at what happened outside the walls of their homes and apartments as they watched television or slept.
Or as they partied, should they have run into a blue Peterbilt.
I am so gonna dream about the movie Duel tonight.
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The Norman fire department responded to an apartment fire at 8:42 p.m. at 1111 Oak Tree Ave. Smoke was seen coming from Building C, and heavy flames were spotted on the north side of the building.
