Cruiser 980 clear, over and out: Dan Verbeck retires from KMBZ
By AARON BARNHART
The Kansas City Star
Tonight Dan Verbeck will go to bed at 5 p.m. or try to anyway. He will rise
shortly after 11, along with the rest of the third-shifters and any zombies
lurking around area graveyards.
And then, for the last time, he will work what seems like one of the
grimmest assignments in all of media: reporting live from the scene as
murder, mayhem and mischief spill out onto the darkened streets of Kansas
City.
Some time before 8 a.m. Friday - his employer, KMBZ Radio, wants him back in
the studio for a special goodbye show then - he will file his last report
from the KMBZ mobile unit, including his familiar signoff, "Cruiser 980,
clear."
What is amazing and even inspiring about Verbeck is that this has been his
job for 23 years on KMBZ (980), and as he prepares to leave, it's not
because he has grown bitter or weary at all the carnage his fellow humans
can cause to themselves and one another.
Rest at www.kansascity.com/620/story/478264.html.
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