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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you've ever sat down and listened to a police scanner, then you know it's not always |
0:09.8 | the most exciting way to spend your free time. |
0:12.5 | Odds are you'll hear a lot of dead air, static, and voices you can't quite understand. |
0:22.8 | Even when there is a flurry of activity, what's actually going on can still be pretty |
0:26.9 | tough to figure out. |
0:28.6 | For the untrained ear, police code just sounds like, well, like this. |
0:37.8 | But if you listen long enough, you'll learn that police don't have a code for everything. |
0:42.7 | For example, anyone tuned into the Houston Police Scanner on the evening of Sunday, May |
0:47.4 | 9th, 2021 would have heard this question. |
0:51.3 | Does he have the tiger? |
0:52.3 | Followed by this response, unknown at the moment, unknown at the moment. |
0:59.2 | For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. |
1:01.2 | This is a preview of our brand new podcast, Strangeville. |
1:06.2 | Okay, I'm trying to remember what exactly is today's episode supposed to be about. |
1:14.0 | It's just about a tiger. |
1:18.0 | Ah, right, right, a tiger. |
1:21.3 | You're probably wondering what led to this strange back and forth on the Houston Police |
1:24.6 | Scanner. |
1:25.6 | Well, it started when residents of a neighborhood in West Houston got an alert on their phones |
1:29.9 | from one of those neighborhood watch apps where users report what they see going on in |
1:33.8 | their communities. |
1:36.6 | The alert said there was a tiger on the loose. |
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