At 05:46 PM 02/19/07, you wrote: >One of the local police departments here awarded one of their officers with >the "Golden Microphone Award", a Motorola Mic painted gold and affixed to a >wooden plaque, after she unwittingly had her mic keyed while she sang "Oh >Mickey! You're so fine..." in its entirety. > >This was presented at their annual awards banquet... Needless to say the >incident - or any similar - was not repeated for quite some time. ;-) > >Mark - N9WYS
I can just imagine this going over the air on a dispatch talkback channel... <http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/m/mickey.shtml> Years ago Ray Thill WA9EXP used to tell stories about t-hunting patrol cars in Chicago with bad or intermittent microphone cords... i.e. stuck PTT lines. He used to love to pull up behind a patrol car in his marked Chicago PD radio shop van and flip his wig-wag headlights on, then walk up to the officers and hand them a replacement palm microphone, and make some comments on what the cops were saying... something like "I'm sure the captain appreciates the ancestral comments you were making about him".... they'd put his comment, their memory of what they were just saying, that and the new microphone they were holding together and get really concerned... then they'd let Ray swap the microphone and go back on patrol... and wonder what was awaiting them in the ready room.... Mike WA6ILQ
