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I'v wondered this since age 9...WTF does this super common radio cop phrase mean?

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You guys have to know wha I am talking about. It's in movies, tv shows, video games. Right now I'm watching Street Patrol and I've heard it twice.

It is always heard through a walkie talkie and always said by a female voice. I'm not sure what the words are exactly but it sounds like

78 point 5, code 6, 105 north avenue 52
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Does anyone know what I'm talking about!? Why do police officers play this over and over for years and years, what does it mean? I googled it and no answer.
 
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you sure its just the dispatch saying it? code 6 is out of vehicle from googling. so i figure they are saying out of vehicle (to investigate) then saying there location. no clue on the point thing.
 
You both have definitely heard it atleast 20 times in your life.

A lot of people ask this online but no one ever knows.
http://www.3dmm.com/archive/index.php/t-20834.html
"movies that use stock sounds... wtf"

Bryce Farlow said:
I hate hearing the police station sound from Sim City 2000 where the dispatcher says something like "Planet Subway 127...." I HATE hearing it in movies and show whenever they show police.
I also hate all default baby cry clips. And the 3dmm Baby Laugh
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Eric Ryan said:
It says, "785 code six, 105 north avenue, 52"

GET IT STRAIGHT BRYCEY IAN
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Other people ask and discuss it here and here but there is no answer.

I guess I will never know. :'(
 
I don't...think I'm talking about the ten code. It could be, I guess. But it's even everything from scripted tv shows and movies to reality tv shows.

I guess I'll never know. In the links I posted, other people ask about, and say they've heard, the clip in question everywhere as well so I know I'm not crazy!

I'm just going to decide that it's a stock dispatch call that they put over real dispatches on shows like Cops to cover personal information. For movies and stuff, I guess it's easy to use, like the Wilhelm scream. This is probably wrong but it's the only logical thing I can think of to explain why it's in things from videogames to reality cop shows.

I'm shocked that the internet doesn't have the answer to this and that more people don't know the clip.
 
Is this basically a topic to bitch about stock sound files being used? Two that I hear ALL THE TIME:

- Kids laughing/giggling.

- TAPPING ON A KEYBOARD. OMFG this one drives me crazy. I first heard it in 007 Goldeneye (the game), and now I hear it in pretty much every movie/game/TV show ever made... ever. It's instantly recognizable because it has a clear rhythm: taptaptaptap..... tap.

Edit: OK WTF. I need to quit the internet. I just used Google to see if I could find the keyboard sound clip, and the FIRST RESULT is me making an ALMOST IDENTICAL post, 14 months ago:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=294839
 
GDJustin said:
Is this basically a topic to bitch about stock sound files being used?
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No.

GAF doesn't know what I'm talking about so let's let this thread die.

edit: :lol I guess your hate for those clips never weakens.
 
jonnybryce said:
I don't...think I'm talking about the ten code. It could be, I guess. But it's even everything from scripted tv shows and movies to reality tv shows.

I guess I'll never know. In the links I posted, other people ask about, and say they've heard, the clip in question everywhere as well so I know I'm not crazy!

I'm just going to decide that it's a stock dispatch call that they put over real dispatches on shows like Cops to cover personal information. For movies and stuff, I guess it's easy to use, like the Wilhelm scream. This is probably wrong but it's the only logical thing I can think of to explain why it's in things from videogames to reality cop shows.

I'm shocked that the internet doesn't have the answer to this and that more people don't know the clip.
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Have you read the wiki entry? it's about code 10, but they're not all 10-*.
for example, the thing you quoted:
"785 code six, 105 north avenue, 52" would mean 785 (unit number I guess) standing by at 105 north ave #52.

And I know I've heard code 187 (homicide), but there was a movie by the same name.
 
Chichikov said:
Have you read the wiki entry? it's about code 10, but they're not all 10-*.
for example, the thing you quoted:
"785 code six, 105 north avenue, 52" would mean 785 (unit number I guess) standing by at 105 north ave #52.

And I know I've heard code 187 (homicide), but there was a movie by the same name.
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I read the first few paragraphs and bookmarked it for tomorrow since it was so long.

But damn, that explains what it means then. I can't believe you aren't familiar with the clip, but thanks a ton for decoding it, this has come and go in my head for years and years.
 
jonnybryce said:
I'm just going to decide that it's a stock dispatch call that they put over real dispatches on shows like Cops to cover personal information. For movies and stuff, I guess it's easy to use, like the Wilhelm scream. This is probably wrong but it's the only logical thing I can think of to explain why it's in things from videogames to reality cop shows.
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I'd say this is correct. I don't think there's any national standardization of radio calls for law enforcement so its a good chance its used for its "police sound."
 
I thought this was going to be about 10-4 or something. I mean, we all know the meaning, but why the numbers 10-4?
 
Dude, I know what sound you're talking about! Or at least it has to be the same sound you're thinking of, as I've heard it like a million times on TVs, movies, video games, etc. I always thought it said something like "Plaintiff Suspect 148, 9 and 10." Even though that made no fucking sense, it's what it always sounded like to me.

Having a real hard time finding it online, though. Crazy.
 
GDJustin said:
Is this basically a topic to bitch about stock sound files being used? Two that I hear ALL THE TIME:

- Kids laughing/giggling.
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i hate this one with a passion. i first heard it while working on a video project in HS (2000ish) w/ iMovie. We used it a couple of times, and that was that. now I hear it during every commercial break. can someone please record their own kids laughing for once.
 
Nabs said:
i hate this one with a passion. i first heard it while working on a video project in HS (2000ish) w/ iMovie. We used it a couple of times, and that was that. now I hear it during every commercial break. can someone please record their own kids laughing for once.
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im assuming it's the same one from star wars episode 1 arghhhh i hear that one everywhere
 
I knew what sound the OP was talking about before clicking on the thread.

It's a stock sound file that seems to be used just about everywhere there's supposed to be miscellaneous cop radio chatter going on in the background. I've heard it a bunch of times, but I most clearly remember it from the starting area of Anarchy Online, as it played near the police NPCs over and over again.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where it's actually from.
 
GDJustin said:
Is this basically a topic to bitch about stock sound files being used? Two that I hear ALL THE TIME:

- Kids laughing/giggling.

- TAPPING ON A KEYBOARD. OMFG this one drives me crazy. I first heard it in 007 Goldeneye (the game), and now I hear it in pretty much every movie/game/TV show ever made... ever. It's instantly recognizable because it has a clear rhythm: taptaptaptap..... tap.

Edit: OK WTF. I need to quit the internet. I just used Google to see if I could find the keyboard sound clip, and the FIRST RESULT is me making an ALMOST IDENTICAL post, 14 months ago:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=294839
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Completely agree. Especially kids laughing. UGH. It makes movies feel so cheap when they reuse sounds like that.

I really hate the cat scream that's heard in soooo many movies and shows.
 
First number is always the cop identifying himself to the dispatch, second is the code...could be whatever.

And when I clicked this thread I thought it was going to be about an All Points Bulletin.
 
Is there some kind of archived database they dip into for movie sounds? I'd really like to get my hands on it. There's a lot more random sounds I hear everywhere, like animal roar explosions. :lol
 
I knew exactly what sound clip you were talking as soon as I saw the title! Can't remember what game I heard it in first or anything, but ever since then I started noticing that shit everywhere in TV and movies.

The soundbite just sticks out like a sore thumb now.
 
Oh! Just hit me, Deus Ex! I am almost certain I heard that police chatter clip in that game. Pretty sure it might be in the original GTA games, too.
 
Ten code is different agency to agency. I think it's kind of a waste to use, but it's fun talking to the people in the agency that know it. It's just short hand.


We just 51'd a 49 that said she was 41'd by a MW who had a 33, apparently he was a susp out of serial 8s. As he was getting away he 5a'd a guy on a mc who ended up 14ing him. So the guy goes 16b and sprays 43as all over, with one 10-18 resulting from a 43 to the neck. He eventually got code 3'd and was 51'd to cty.



We just picked up a prostitute who was robbed by a male white with a gun, who was a serial burglary suspect. As he was getting away he hit and injured a guy on a motor cycle who then stabbed him. The guy went crazy and starts shooting all over and one person dies from a gun shot wound to the neck. He was eventually arrested and transported to the county jail.
 
NaughtyCalibur said:
Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k#t=00m25s

It's that, right?
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Lol no, that's not the same one. Maybe it is but there's so much noise that I can't entirely make it out, but it didn't seem like it.

Htown said:
I knew what sound the OP was talking about before clicking on the thread.

It's a stock sound file that seems to be used just about everywhere there's supposed to be miscellaneous cop radio chatter going on in the background. I've heard it a bunch of times, but I most clearly remember it from the starting area of Anarchy Online, as it played near the police NPCs over and over again.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where it's actually from.
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Thank you for sharing your encounters and for your support :lol
 
I too know this exact police sound. Law & Order SVU is the most recent example that comes to mind. But the thing is.. I know exactly where I heard it the first time..

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Select the 'police car' unit and drag it across the screen. The aforementioned police radio sample will loop til the cows come home.
 
I roll my eyes at a lot of horse "neighs" in tv and films because they were used in Age of Empires 2 (and probably loads of other games before it).
 
Dastardly Jerks said:
I too know this exact police sound. Law & Order SVU is the most recent example that comes to mind. But the thing is.. I know exactly where I heard it the first time..

Spider-Man_Cartoon_Maker_Coverart.png


Select the 'police car' unit and drag it across the screen. The aforementioned police radio sample will loop til the cows come home.
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This, this this, a million times THIS! I knew what this thread was about and was coming to post this exact same thing as it's the first instance I can remember hearing it as well.

I used to make all kinds of crappy spiderman 'cartoons' with that and always wondered what that police chatter meant.

I forgot the 2nd time I heard it, but I remember being shocked that I had heard the exact same chatter before from this spiderman game. And it's blowing my mind over a decade later hearing this chatter in all manner of media.

I've got to wonder if there are any earlier sources though? But in anycase Spiderman Cartoon Maker was my first memory of the chatter.
 
GDJustin said:
Is this basically a topic to bitch about stock sound files being used? Two that I hear ALL THE TIME:

- Kids laughing/giggling.

- TAPPING ON A KEYBOARD. OMFG this one drives me crazy. I first heard it in 007 Goldeneye (the game), and now I hear it in pretty much every movie/game/TV show ever made... ever. It's instantly recognizable because it has a clear rhythm: taptaptaptap..... tap.

Edit: OK WTF. I need to quit the internet. I just used Google to see if I could find the keyboard sound clip, and the FIRST RESULT is me making an ALMOST IDENTICAL post, 14 months ago:
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I actually made a ringtone out of this one (clipped it from a South Park episode...it was the clearest one I've heard so far) . Every time my brother and I hear it, he goes, "Those kids much be RICH." :lol

It's SO funny hearing it.

Also, the BABY! (I call it the "Kate Baby" since the baby Kate from the tv show Arthur uses ALL of the sound effects from it....the cry, the laugh, etc)
 
there actually are a lot of sound effects that are public domain, like the aforementioned Wilhelm Scream... this dispatcher clip is probably one of them.
 
Dastardly Jerks said:
I too know this exact police sound. Law & Order SVU is the most recent example that comes to mind. But the thing is.. I know exactly where I heard it the first time..

Spider-Man_Cartoon_Maker_Coverart.png


Select the 'police car' unit and drag it across the screen. The aforementioned police radio sample will loop til the cows come home.
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OMG that's it!!! That's the "game" that burned the sound clip into my memory!
 
Wes said:
I roll my eyes at a lot of horse "neighs" in tv and films because they were used in Age of Empires 2 (and probably loads of other games before it).
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I love it when I hear the knife sounds from Counter-strike in TV shows or movies :lol
 
This sound effect from Starfox Adventures drives me crazy.
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I keep hearing it everywhere and I hate it because I've heard it in the game so often. It sounds so cheap to me when they use it in big budget movies because I associate it with a goddam videogame!
 
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