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Anybody ever heard DRT?

leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I learned a new acromynmn today. I know I can't speel very well. Anyway, DRT. It stands for Dead Right There. The highway patrol guys use it for car wrecks when they get to a driver, and he ain't breathen cause his lungs are in the passenger seat next to him.

I thought its was kinda funny in a morbid since of humor kinda way.

If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    Been using that one for years, LBM. I cracked up the first time I heard it. You gotta have a sick sense of humor to make it in this profession.
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  • BushobiBushobi Member Posts: 107 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The non-laymen think its a sick sense of humor. but from one who has been there on many occassions it's a way to deal with what u would really like to say and do..
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That wouldnt work to well with our signal 10 codes,we phrase it
    as a 10-50 F ( Fatality). And Its a dreaded phrase for me as I hear it more than I want.We worked a 10-50 PI (person injured)about a month ago.With two 17yr olds (f) and one PI.All involved agencys are steel dealing with it.I cant go into details but the circumstances were bad.Of course any time you work something like this its bad.These young men hit a concrete bridge Head on at an estimated speed of 100+ Mph.They were driving to a party.

    Rugster
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You'd be supprised how many depts. around here don't use the standard 10 codes, most of them use a limited and modified version of them. Mainly because we have big problems with news and all kinds of people listening on a scanner and showing up causing problems. In fact ever since Beaumont got CAD's (teletypes) in the cars, radio traffic is pretty limited.

    By the way what is LBM, I haven't heard that one yet.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    LBM = lazy man's way to address leeblackman....see, there ya made me go and type it out anyway
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    And, "DRT" is never used on the radio...it's only said amongst ourselves.

    Our solution to media, etc., who show up with cameras or camcorders is to walk over politely with notebooks in hand and ask for identification, address and phone number. When they ask why, we tell them that, as a witness to the event and/or aftermath, we need to know how to contact them when it's time to subpoena them for court. You'd be amazed how fast they leave.
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