Most excitement I've had all MONTH!

Well, I didn't go ask, but when I poked my nose out later, EMS was out there - I guess either the truck hitting the fence or the cops making him do a header into the sidewalk must've hurt him a bit. He didn't look too damaged to me from across the street - but I did see him after they put him in the police car.

Well, Tamara, I used to live in a much more exciting neighborhood, and while I don't miss the sometimes weekly displays, I have to admit there have been times where I'm not sure anyone is still around at night. Used to be we sometimes got drunks getting lost and hitting cars trying to get out of the neighborhood, but that hasn't happened lately.

Yes. One night a woman I know had some sort of hostage event take place directly across the street from her house, with a SWAT team, flashing police lights &, everything, & for that same reason you noted, the very next day, she traded bedrooms with her son, so that her bedroom would face that street, & not his!

Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"

that's pretty exciting, but then again, apartment complexes tend to be where things happen because more people live in them

I remember you telling us of it at the time...

I poked my nose out later and he was filling out a police report, EMS was there looking at the "perp" - haven't poked my nose out yet this morning.

P.S. Wasn't always like this. I'll never forget the night when I was 16, we lived in a "bad" Houston neighborhood, Dad wasn't home, & Mom & I sat up while our neighbors did... odd things....

The couple across the street came home about 4 in the morning. I don't remember why we were up, but something they did caught our attention. I dunno...maybe it was the furtive way they drove into their driveway with no lights on, & stealthily went into their house, but we decided to watch.

In a few minutes, they came back out--still with no lights on--but we could see by street lights (we'd turned our lamps off, the better to watch unseen...maybe we were suspicious by then). They took a large bundle out of their trunk & it took them both to haul it into the house. All was quiet for a while, so we were about to call it a night when their carport lights came on. Very bright lights. Curious, wondering why the now felt like exposing their presence when clearly they hadn't before, we resumed our watch.

They brought out chairs & a folding table, a radio & a barbecue grill, & proceeded to have a picnic in their carport. We could smell whatever they cooked from our house.

Mom said she knew that smell, because she'd never forget it. She'd only smelled it as a girl, once, when a house near hers had burned down, & someone had been trapped in it.

Remember that "old Chinese curse?" "May you live in interesting times?"

Whenever I find life seems a bit dull, I remember that night, & count my blessings....

Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"

oh, and they washed the car you told me before...

I don't suppose you or your mom reported the suspicious behavior?

actually, they did not, because they had come from a backward rural community where the cops were corrupt and being afraid of the law was more the norm...

BarBaraPrz asked:
"I don't suppose you or your mom reported the suspicious behavior?"

And I answered:
No...I guess we were too afraid we might wind up on their menu.

And Elic was correct. I'd forgotten about their washing the car!

And Elic chimed in with:

"Actually, they did not, because they had come from a backward rural community where the cops were corrupt and being afraid of the law was more the norm...."

And I replied:
Noooo...Dad was rather cosmopolitan, actually, having lived in cities & taught school, plus he'd traveled abroad. And while Mom started in a rural area, she'd long since lived mostly in cities. At that time, we were in Houston, where, as it happens, there was a lot of corruption on the force at the time. But as I said, I think Mom was really just hinky about the weird neighbors, about what else they might do.

And btw, there were other neighbors on that street that were even weirder...though not quite as dangerous-seeming...mostly.... Maybe I'll tell y'all sometime about the "ape family" that lived catty-cornered across from us.

Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"

around here, if EMS is dispatched, the fire dept goes too, because generally they can get there faster

yeah, the internet went down and I took my benedryl and went right to sleep.