dragnet

Mar. 1st, 2006 10:48 pm
fflo: (quisp)
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There's some kind of manhunt going on in my neighborhood tonight.

For a good half an hour there's been some police presence outside, up and down the block. At one point two cruisers and some big station-wagon-lookin' thing were slowly sweeping, with one car's dual search lights panning back and forth, while several flatfoots combed the sidewalks and front yards. Then the searchlighted car pulled down the driveway I share with my neighbor & the pigs on foot swarmed down that way.

Now there's one cop car sitting in front of my mailbox with its searchlight trained down that driveway, and another car at the end of the block with its lights trained this way. Once in a while I see a handheld flashlight bouncing around.

Either something big has gone down, or the A2 cops are really bored tonight. Don't think they'd do all this for a burglary.

Several of the neighbors seem to be "cooperating," as I am, with the porch lights on at this late (in the Midwest) hour.

(Quisp with ray gun is the closest icon I have to a copper.)

i have an idea!

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com
maybe fernando is in the bushes somewhere? if so, ensure your doors are locked, or be prepared for an early morning conversation.

Re: i have an idea!

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com
Of course! How could I not have realized it was Fernando. There was something in the air last night...

Love the icon, International Shmizla of Mystery.

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com
I hate when stuff like that goes on. it always makes me damn nervous, but i usually listen to it anyway due to my own morbid fascination with such things.

huh!?

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirrelykat.livejournal.com
were they looking for evidence of puppies!?

but really, did you hear what happened!?! geesh.....
what building is right next to your house!?

GA, my neighbor said somebody tried to break in to the school
he teaches at yesterday not too far from Trader Joes.

Re: huh!?

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com
BTK said armed robbery (I'd called him to alert him to the activity---he hadn't noticed). See the link O just posted elsewhere in these comments.

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madush69.livejournal.com
And of course when I made my calls this morning, the cops said they had nothing.

Re: is this what it is?

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirrelykat.livejournal.com
gosh, missed the whole thang by a few minutes! i was at Frasers right
across the street til 9:15!

Re: is this what it is?

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com
I bet that's it! Neighbor said it was an armed robbery suspect they were looking for. Funny how the get-away car was abandoned near your place but the footchase was conducted near mine.

Re: is this what it is?

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com
oh, wait---the car was stolen FROM your street...

i just realized...

Date: Mar. 2nd, 2006 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com
i totally didn't notice until now. but it's all awfully close to where i usually move. to where WE ALL usually move.
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