Funny thing is you never forget it.  Never working in dispatch, but on the streets, once. 

We get a call of a subject trying doors on cars and houses.  We have been getting calls about the same guy for about two weeks, so it was getting a little frustrating looking for this guy.  I park my car down the street and walk down the alley trying to catch this guy in the act.  I'm not coming up with anything so I advise dispatch and ask for a complaintant.  As I'm doing this, the guy pops out from around the corner and we're face to face.  The guy begins running and I yell out, "STOP M..... F......!"  You know how to fill in the blanks.  I then notice that I was still holding my mike.  Chased the guy for a few blocks and finnally caught him.  Guys started pulling up laughing.  They told me that I was crystal clear on the radio.  I had to talk to the Watch Commander later to advise him of the charges.  I figured I'd tell him about this (he already heard) before he found out about the "bad French."  He said, "I heard you.  You said, 'Stop my friend!"

This happened 9 years ago.  Like I said, you (and especially your friends) never forget. 

All of mine has been while training and the noob keys up while I'm talking. 

I feel this will increase with the adding of cell phone usage to the mix.  Especially Nextels.

Had a friend trying to talk to someone on his Nextel while answering the radio.  The call was a return to a "usual" address for the "usual" problem.  All we heard on the radio was, "This is F-ing ridiculous, same F-ing thing!"

Remember, Push To Talk means the same for your radio as it does for your Nextel. 

Can't say.....................................it's a secret.

Oh where to start!! I was calling out a vehicle stop and as I was giving the plate the vehicle suddenly hit its brakes hard my comment while the mike was keyed "what the hell!!" I then noticed my finger still on the mike. Neadless to say I got numerous messages over the MDT. another night I was out on patrol when a mike keyed up and all you could hear was heavy breathing, from both a male and female. Instantly everyone of us was trying to contact a certain officer, because we all thought he was the culprit, but he was in the office all by himself. We later found out who it was and it was the one person you would never think of doing this.  We had an old time radio in one of the cars and your knee would hit the mike button if you were not careful, well it got four or five of us at times nothing bad said until the last one, not me, the comment heard was "Get the F... out of the way". The radio was taken out after that one. Thats just a couple for ya!

The most recent slip wasn't me. I accidently keyed the radio and my partners next word sure enough was "f&^k."

I did mine long ago.  Back in the dark ages, we had walkies that had a "talk" button that stuck out about 1/4 of an inch. I was drinking a cup of coffee whilst standing with my foot on the bumper of the cruiser. I leaned over to look at some mud on the side of my cruiser and remarked: "Damn, I just got this thing washed and now the son of a ----- is dirty already!" I didn't think that it went out over the air until the sergeant pulled up and said: "So, got the son of a ------ dirty already?"... lucky for me, that's as far as it went.

Well, I'm a civilian, but I do have a really funny anecdote to tell even though the officer didn't actually swear. But first I should set up this story. I live not too far outside a very small town in north GA, in a community called Craigtown. It is a tight-nit and very clannish community -- mostly good people, but also a fair proportion of people who constantly are in trouble with the law. Its also really backwoods too.

A couple of summers ago on a very late Saturday night I was across the road at a neighbor's house along with other friends. It was 3 am and the party had wound down to the point where most had left and the rest of us were just sitting around chit-chatting. Anyway, my neighbor who was a good ol pal ol buddy ol friend of mine (who also was the neighborhood drunk yet who also was a really good dude who never drank and drove anywhere) loved to listen to his police scanner. That thing was turned on 24-7. So, soon after 3 am the sheriff's department dispatcher calls for Officer Bob (not his real first name) to go out to Craigtown to pick up somebody on a probation violation. Officer Bob replied, "Oh Lord! Not Craigtown! Can't I just go out there in the morning?" All of us started dying laughing since, if we were in Officer Bob's shoes, we all sure as Hades wouldn't want to go out to Craigtown and risk knocking on somebody's door that late at night.

Nope...

I did however GB (general Broadcast) a stolen vehicle description in which the bumper sticker read "road head relieves road rage" ...I was asked to repeat it several times :-)

Does a bear defacate in a forested area? Of course!

Lets see.....One time our radio stuck open on the primary sheriff's channel. All of a sudden, every line in here lit up like a freakin xmas tree. "hey this is deputy so and so, you have a stuck mike....." After about the 19 millionth phone call I yelled "if youd stop f-in calling I could unplug and diagnose the problem!!!!" I'll be dammed if every line didn't stop ringing even quicker than they started....I still get joked about that one by the old timers....

I've had it return back as well...Deputy responding to a shots fired call, running code 3....all the road leo's here know exactly what's coming next. Just as he grabs the mike to advise he's 10-23 the area a little old lady slams on the brakes right in front of him instead of pulling over to the right...out of nowhere I hear "Craven, I'll be 10-OH YOU STUPID F"N B*%@H"!!!!!!!!"  Now, I knew he wasn't talking to me as I am as male as they come, so I did not take offense. I couldn't help laughing, hysterically, whilst I answered him on the radio...it worked out ok, tho, 200 feet of skidmarks (on the pavement and in his drawers) but no collision took place, and the "shooters" must have been scared off, because nothing ever came of that, either.

MY MIC WAS KEYED WHEN I REFERRED TO THE SUSPECT AS THE MALE OFFSPRING TO A FEMALE CANINE..THIS WAS AFTER HE BIT MY HAND. 

Worked in a remote area for a long time then came back to a major centre (where everything is recorded)

Just about everytime i got on the radio i swore until it finally sunk in.. Still slip up every now and then but only at night when there are hardly any bosses.

My Fulltime Job is working Corrections, One day while walking down the Tier one of the inmates had some bad Gas. Most of the guys are good if we tell them to flush they will, but at this one cell I looked in and asked the guy to flush. He said 'I didn't even use it. So i asked him well you might want to check because it smells bad out here.  My Sgt called me over the radio at that time also, after i was done talking with him i didn't realize my mic was still keyed, as the inmate Let out the Loudest fart. My Sgt came back on the radio and asked if I was ok. I advised my Sgt that one of the Inmates wanted to say hello. All i got was a bunch of chuckles over the radio from the other officers.

Try calling in a traffic stop at a business call FUDPUCKERS in a high stress situation in the early morning hours.  I think you can figure out what came out!!!!

We were having radio problems (imagine that). I could not get any confirmation tone that I hit the tower while trying to communicate with dispatch. I said, "piece of $h*t radios" and everyone got the message.  Did not get into any trouble.

One on a dispatch - An EMS call was put out for a patient with shortness of breasts (no exactly swearing, but .....)

An officer a long, long time ago, VHF system before radio identifiers.....  - Keyed the mic while urinating and then the toilet flushed (color glossy?)