Took my gun on it's daily walk today. I stopped by a dentist office to ask a few questions about dental insurance and what not. After I left I headed back home, about 15 mins later the MWAG call came out over the scanner as I ralized it was me and then who called it in I couldn't help but start laughing at the fact that they decided to call the PD 15 mins after I left. However I see it as a huge waste of the PD's time and our tax dollars I think that tomorrow I will go back to the dentist office without my gun and give them a flyer and explain the laws to them.
Just an FYI - carrying a scanner could make for a hard to defend misdemeanor...
Read the bolded text as a single sentence.
636.5.
Any person not authorized by the sender,
who intercepts any
public safety radio service communication, by use of a scanner or any
other means, for the purpose of using that communication to assist
in the commission of a criminal offense or
to avoid or escape arrest,
trial, conviction, or punishment or who divulges to any person he or
she knows to be a suspect in the commission of any criminal offense,
the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect or meaning of
that communication concerning the offense with the intent that the
suspect may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction, or
punishment
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Nothing in this section shall preclude prosecution of any person
under Section 31 or 32.
As used in this section, "public safety radio service
communication" means a communication authorized by the Federal
Communications Commission to be transmitted by a station in the
public safety radio service.