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Calling All Cars: The Barking Dog

Calling All Cars · September 29, 1938 · 29 min · 4,388 words

The transcript of “The Barking Dog”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast September 29, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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A copyrighted program transcribed and dedicated to the prevention of crime. Calling all cars, attention all cars, broadcast to 153 regarding unnerders, best gated ones. That is all. God. Passion are usually committed by amateurs who think themselves more than a match for the incited-thinking, experienced law officers.

This type of criminal will spend much time and effort in planning a cover-up for his crime. He really thinks he is a master criminal, but forgets just one little thing. There is no such criminal. There is no perfection in crime, just as there is no perfection in any human effort.

Some trace of the crime is always left uncovered. Some bit of evidence is always exposed to the keen eye of the investigating officer. And once he cites it and fits it into the puzzle of the crime, the criminal is as good as under arrest.

We now present a case in point of the foregoing assertion, a case founded on fact drawn from law enforcement authority records, the case of the barking dog. Who's out there?

Oh, you. What have you got that rifle for? Hey, don't point it at me. That's what I tell ya. Listen, I know you don't like me, but don't do that. You'll hang. You can't get away with anything I get.

Put that gun down. I'll give you anything you want, even money. Please don't. Why don't you see something? Stop fighting that gun! Yeah, what kind of gun? Oh, roughly speaking, I should say it was like that.

All right, I want to know what time it is. What do you want to know the time for? I want to know if it's time to go home. But the dance isn't over. Well, you tell me what...

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