Our decision to not get cable means we need to find alternate forms of entertainment. Tonight we had a real-life Grand Theft Auto event to watch from the safety of our home 60 feet in the air.First a note on the local crime. The most recent and less recent crime statistics show that the downtown crime rate are consistently declining. We are very safe in our place and these events are VERY infrequent and are geographically close simply because we live on a major road in the heart of a city.
The city is also loud. When we heard some shouting and police sirens we ignored them for a while. When I finally got up and went to the window I heard the police say, "what I want you to do is get your hands out on the car door!" The "gentleman" complied and eventually got out of the car and backed over to the curb where he knelt down. Twelve cop cars and as many police with their guns trained on you can help get the unwilling to comply.
After they searched the car, a woman got out of a police car, got into the red car and drove away. I did note that she drove away still talking on her cell phone (without a hands-free set). She's lucky that it isn't illegal here, yet. The police would have nabbed her too.
They are very, very good police here. We have one of the lowest response times in the country and a high quality police force despite some publicized controversy. Thanks guys.
3 comments:
Good thing they weren't blocking pizza window. That would have been bad.
So, did someone steal the woman's red car? Is that why they let her drive a way in it? Or was she an undercover cop?
I figure it is a GOOD sign that there were this many cop cars with nothing else to do! This must have been the highlight of the night. Too bad you couldn't sell this to the paper or the 11:00 news!
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