While driving down Southern at lunch time, my Friend John and I notice a cop car in the neighborhood in which his brother lives (as well as my friend Brittney). Then we see there is another on the sidewalk on Southern and in front of that sits an older car that has driven up on the sidewalk and has been abandoned. That's right A RUNNER! We decide maybe we should drive into the neighborhood and be sure the action is not close to where John's sister in law would be at home with her three children. No it was not close, unless you call the house across the street close. As we pull up we notice that there are a lot more police cars and SWAT trailers etc. We get out and start to walk over to where Sylvia lives and I notice that there are an inordinate amount of black Suburbans with black tinted windows lining the street. We look at each other and decide this must be big; these are FBI vehicles! Sure enough as soon as we walk up a uniformed policeman asks us if we live in any of these homes. No, but we are concerned about someone who does and who we have not been able to reach by phone yet. He asks if it is the house across from us and we reply in the negative. He assures us everything is fine then and we need to leave the area. He said they had it all under control. Now I no never to believe the police. You can go to AZfamily.com and see the drama is still in play. Apparently the guy robbed a bank and ran to leisure world, stole the car we saw on the sidewalk. Ran into a policeman some where along the way and then hopped the sidewalk and decided to hop the fence. He is Right this minute in some poor unsuspecting person's home and the police are in a stand off with him. They do not know if there is anyone in the home or not. It was pretty crazy to see a sniper up on his car with rifle in hand over the wall of the community. It will be interesting to see how this plays out! I just hope and pray the people in who own that home are not home and safe and sound somewhere else. And that the police involved remain safe. P.S. I cannot believe I did not have my camera!
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Ok, there was a section in the newspaper at BYU called the Police Beat. That was always our favorite section to check out because it had random stories of freak-like people doing odd things. This story sounded exactly like something out of Police Beat. So, thanks for risking your life so that I could feel like I was back in college for a few moments. :)
Wow, what an exciting lunch for you! Good thing you guys were there. :)
Yes, I am pretty sure they could ot have disarmned him without us. It is funny because I usually steer clear of these sort of things but John was determined to get right in there.
Crazy! That reminds me of something that happened in our neighborhood years ago in Gilbert. A guy that escaped from prison was being chased by a Police helicopter and was hopping fences and running through yards in our neighborhood. A lady in my ward was working in her garden when the guy hopped her fence, ran across the yard and hopped the fence on the other side. She didn't have any clue who the guy was until the Police chopper tore over her backyard after him and she went in and saw it on the news. CRAZY stuff!
That reminds me of when there was a quintuple homicide in my neighborhood two years ago! (it doesn't really remind me of that, it's just that just this once I could top a Kelly story!)
And what's this about a new car? PICTURES PLEASE!!!
Nedra,
Thanks for the hike today! I loved it, although it almost killed me. It was fun checking out the crime scene with you Thursday night before dinner. I love that Santa picture also! Love ya!
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