Public Urination, Jeep Scare, And A Trespassing Billy Goat: Wild 911 Calls From Lake Of The Ozarks

Police officers and 911 dispatchers around Lake of the Ozarks hear all kinds of things, especially in the summer.

Here are a handful of the wildest incidents officers have been called out to over the past couple of weeks.

On Tuesday, Aug. 11, authorities were called out to the Strip to respond to an argument that took a bad turn.

The 911 caller said he and his significant other were “talking loudly and/or arguing” in front of Roxie’s, according to dispatch audio, when a woman in a Jeep tried to hit them with the vehicle.

The dispatcher said the woman then reportedly parked the Jeep and “took off somewhere on the Strip.”

It’s unclear whether the couple finished their loud talk after the incident.

Then there was the 911 call on Wednesday, Aug. 12: a boom at Reed’s Iron and Metal Recycling.

It turned out, someone had slipped a propane tank into a pile of debris (the center explicitly prohibits propane tanks).

Firefighters were called out to extinguish the substantial blaze that ensued.

There’s a lot of competition for the Greatest Of All Time dispatch audio recordings. But this one might at least be one of the best of the summer.

On Aug. 6, an Eldon woman called 911 to report a goat on her porch.

Description of the suspect: White. Bearded (presumably; it was a billy goat, after all.) Hungry (actively eating her flowers). Violent (“ramming her door”).

She said the goat had been on her porch for a couple of hours, and while she did not want to file a report for property damage, she was asking authorities to help figure out whose goat it was… and maybe help usher it along to greener pastures.

The dispatcher added, helpfully, “We also don’t have any goats listed for that area.”

Aug. 1

“County, I’m out with the blonde female in black and the leopard-print suspect at Redhead’s.”

Real dispatch transcripts sometimes need no commentary.

On July 31, at 10:37 p.m., cops were called down to the parking lot near the dam.

“There’s a few hundred kids down here,” an officer radioed, asking for additional officers.

“All of which look to be under 21… Probably drinking… They started to kind of scatter when I got here.”

With Lake Ozark’s new law (passed a couple of weeks after this incident), the ones under 18 would have had to scatter anyway: curfew is 11 p.m.

And last but not least, on Aug. 1, there was… a urination incident.

The call that came into dispatch was about a woman who had allegedly urinated inside a retail establishment on the Strip, and then went across the street to another establishment.

There was some initial confusion about where the urination occurred. The initial report was that it had happened at Outlaw’s, after which the relieved woman went to Big Dick’s. Later, an officer asked dispatch to change the location to Split Arrow.

The officer cited the woman for public urination. The city does have an ordinance for this:

§ 210.1560. Urinating In Public

It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to urinate in or upon any street, park, any public place open to the public or private place open to public view other than in the restroom facilities provided for such activity.

Because accidents happen. But sometimes accidents are… not accidents.