Anyhow, I'm curious. Is this in any way an invasion of privacy or do I have a right to know and listen in on LE traffic?

Back in high school, my buddy's mom was dedicated to her scanner. She heard my name when I got pulled over for fleeing and eluding, about two miles from their place, on our way home from a night of drinking. I got off thanks to my Uncle, who was a cop in the next township over and responded to the call as well. Neither ever said a word to my folks, but boy, did they ever give me the business for a while!

So I bought a fairly high end police scanner.
Now that I finally kind of understand how this thing works I'm monitoring all the nearby towns police departments, fire, ems... all that happy shit.
As I'm listening right now there is a suicidal 16 year old literally 2 blocks from my house, sheriffs and local cops and EMS are all en route or there.
Anyhow, I'm curious. Is this in any way an invasion of privacy or do I have a right to know and listen in on LE traffic?

I've been thinking how handy this would have been when the helis were hovering over my house during that GI joe suspect search that September evening when we thought there were cop killers running thru our neighborhood.

Does anyone else scan?

legally or ethically?

Not surprised an old hen like you would want to know everyone’s business. You should change your last name to Kravitz.

Ok. Darko Kravitz at your service, moondick.

That’s an oldie but a goody. Where do you and your flock of mosey hens gather to cluck?

At your mom's. Oldie but goodie.

That would be a neat trick.

That would be a neat trick.

My mother had one when we were growing up and it would pick up the wireless landline phones in the neighborhood. It was funny because she would tell me everyone's business. "Hey, did you know whats her face is sleeping with Johnny from over the bridge. But so is her friend Jenny, so this should be interesting"

I had a six band radio that I took to college and in our dorm towers you could get conversation after conversation in the prime time evening hours. Nothing was being encrypted at that time, so you would hear all sorts of fun stuff. Cheap entertainment some nights with some beer and that radio.

Listening to cordless phones is illegal as far as I know. Cell transmission intercepts are also illegal although I suppose now there are no analog signals any longer and the digital are likely encrypted.
This hobby, for me, extends to interest in police, fire, EMS and public safety. Some ATC traffic is interesting but I dont understand any of it.

Thankfully, the statute of limitations has run out and I cannot be prosecuted for this crime.

My radio would pick up air traffic control occasionally. I think it was tower vrs sirplsbe but it would be bizarre when CKG was getting the Led out and there would be a static break and a clear for landing flight 123 in the middle of Kashmir.

My radio would pick up air traffic control occasionally. I think it was tower vrs sirplsbe but it would be bizarre when CKG was getting the Led out and there would be a static break and a clear for landing flight 123 in the middle of Kashmir.

Really? Interesting. Commercial air traffic broadcasts 108.0000 to 136.9916. Not terribly far from FM radio broadcast.
There has to be a weird maths reason why that happens. Kind of cool.

Yeah, it was bizarre. It was 25+ years ago.. Heck, it could of been charter and private planes out of Dupage for all I know but it was certainly odd.

My mother had one when we were growing up and it would pick up the wireless landline phones in the neighborhood. It was funny because she would tell me everyone's business. "Hey, did you know whats her face is sleeping with Johnny from over the bridge. But so is her friend Jenny, so this should be interesting"

One of my old alarm clocks had a button that said "Weather" and if you pushed it, it was supposed to bring you right to a weather broadcast. But I used to hear some weird shit on there like Cardinals baseball games and what sounded like people discussing freight train arrivals. I assume it was AM but maybe it wasn't since the Cards have or had FM stations, too.

When did darkside turn 65? Congrats on your retirement!