# Why did the security speak a number into his talkie after he checked my ID? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 12, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129 "2011-04-12T18:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/21 "2011-04-12T21:24:15Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > So, how you doin’? I do wonder if the security guard’s code was to alert his colleagues to the presence of a hot female, so they could do some ogling. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/22 "2011-04-12T21:49:29Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Ok… I’ll “bite”. **What** , is Code 2319? (Or, what does it stand for?) [It means trouble, is what](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSAXkp9cqbk). ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/23 "2011-04-12T21:52:10Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > It was in the 300s I believe, 361 maybe, but I’m not sure. I was too nervous to concentrate. That’s almost twice as bad as a 187 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_of\_Lucan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Michael\_of\_Lucan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_of_Lucan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/24 "2011-04-12T22:12:28Z")
361 is the casino code for “Paranoid customer detected. I am going to make him panic by using an obscure code.” ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/25 "2011-04-12T22:24:05Z")
> [@Michael\_of\_Lucan](#): > > 361 is the casino code for “Paranoid customer detected. I am going to make him panic by using an obscure code.” Roger that. Dispatching MIB. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/26 "2011-04-12T23:25:05Z")
It could also be that he’s supposed to report in every so often how many people have come in since last he reported, or what the current occupancy is, taking into account people entering and leaving. In which case it might not be a code at all, just a number. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129/27 "2011-04-13T05:06:10Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > You’re assuming the code was something bad. It might be that he looked at your license, saw no problem after all, and was reporting back with some code that means “false alarm, harmless dork.” We’ll often grab a harmless dork’s license and act all macho, then hand it back and call in a 361 (code for “harmless dork”). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-security-speak-a-number-into-his-talkie-after-he-checked-my-id/578129.md?page=1)