Not as good as "Cops"...
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
April 3, 2011 11:32pm CST
but you have got to take what's offered.
So, I was sitting here at my computer, minding my own business, trying to wind down when...!
I hear:
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[i]SKIRCH!!!
BAM!!!
THUNK!!![/i]
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So, I look outside and see... nothing...
Then I see this crowd of men running down the street, so, I follow...
There, in the street is a BIG mess!
I go on down and see these guys trying to break out the window of a pick up truck.
I can't really see well, because I can mostly see these couple of guys beating the back window with large branches.
"Are they trying to get someone out?" I wonder to myself. "or are they mad at the person?"
Turns out they were trying to get the driver out - they should'a left her in the truck.
It took a while before they found the driver after she got out.
EMS arrived and was looking her over.
After standing there talking to the police, the EMTs and trying to make phone calls for a while, she didn't look overly injured.
I suspect she might've been a bit intoxicated...
Her father arrives looking like a prospector, and then, FINALLY they put her on a gurney and roll her off to the ambulance.
Apparently the police basically told her, since she had a warrant for her arrest, that she could either go with the EMTs or with them. She picked the hospital.
So, any excitement 'round your parts?
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15 responses
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
4 Apr 11
We went to Oklahoma this weekend. Took our life in our hands riding on the crosstown with my brother and sister in law, not that they are bad drivers, but the other people there are crazy drivers. Drove back home today, it was hot, and our car wanted to overheat. Then we drove through a hail and thunderstorm. I am enjoying the good ole Kansas wind tonight.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Dodge City area? We can come there.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Yep. You forgot to leave extra food down for Minnie, so she mugged me over & over 'til I figured out the problem! 
I put food in her bowl & apologized by opening a tiny tin of wet food for a treat. She ate most of it; the rest is in the fridge.
I am nursing my mugging wounds (all psychological, for feeling like a baaaad mommy!). 
Maggiepie
"Deep experience is never peaceful." ~ Henry James
I put food in her bowl & apologized by opening a tiny tin of wet food for a treat. She ate most of it; the rest is in the fridge.
I am nursing my mugging wounds (all psychological, for feeling like a baaaad mommy!).
Maggiepie
"Deep experience is never peaceful." ~ Henry James2 people like this
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
6 Apr 11
Yeah, well, it's a good think I only have one mugger! 
Maggiepie
"What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive, for can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BC)
Maggiepie
"What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive, for can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BC)1 person likes this
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
8 Apr 11
Wow. Stuff like that happens all of the time around here too. We had a high speed chase around here just the other day. the police did not catch them yet though because they stopped the car and took off running into the woods. I have not heard anymore about it if they caught them yet or found out who they were yet or not though.
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Wow Elic! Such excitement! You must live in a popular residental area to have that happen as well as the other things that have happened. I live in the country where it's not so populated so we don't see a lot of action here..... just the way we like it! lol As for that drunken idiot gal, she has to go to jail after the hospital is done with her if there's a warrant for her arrest. Dippy has to know that so why not go and get it over with? If it's for another DUI, I hope the close the book on her!
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Actually, its normally pretty quite, especially since the crazy lady was arrested...
But we are only a few blocks either way of I-35 and a major north/south street (the street does NOT go directly through, you have to know where you are going...)
Yeah, I'm sure she knows, I wonder even at the time if she would try to skip out tho...
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
5 Apr 11
It's been as quiet as a church on my street, but one can hear police sirens and the wail of ambulances and fire trucks day and night. You see, we live just 3 blocks from the police and fire stations.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
5 Apr 11
During those "rolling black outs" in Feb. my client didn't lose power at all (good thing actually since she's on oxygen... but from what we could figure out, since she was just a couple of blocks from a fire station, and they decided to not black out "vital services" her area wasn't affected... mind you she does have to put up with the sirens since the street is only a block over from her apartment. I do think she doesn't hear it as much as when she first moved in.
Unlike her, however, in the course of the 6-7 "rolling black outs" where NO area was supposed to be out more than 30 minutes, we had less than an HOUR the entire time! Good thing we have a gas range and could light the burners for hot water!
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
4 Apr 11
Not really.Funny you should ask though...There were a couple of thugs wandering around our suburb breaking into cars and houses yesterday which concluded with their arrest after a team of policemen and a police helicopter spotted them. My friend who lives two streets away had her car broken into and a set of key was stolen. She got the keys back after the delinquents’ arrests at the police station. My street was un affected except for the loud helicopter hovering above. Just another day…LOL!
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
17 Apr 11
Uh... where do YOU live... holy CRAP. This is the time of the year that we have to worry about wildfires and the news of that has already started to crop up. Next will be the hurricane season and we will weather that just fine as always.
I live in a very quiet neighborhood in a very quiet town and there is not much that EVER happens. Someone getting a traffic ticket is like someone being charged for murder.
Zelo
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
16 May 11
other than the firework throwing neighbors finally getting evicted,not really.nice and peaceful.
wonder what finally did it..the complaints,or one's habit of vomiting over the balcony and leaving it there?
hmm..i vote for the latter.
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@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
5 Apr 11
OK Elic , you've got me there. I thought it was going to be another inspired episode from Law and Order happening in real life or something...and it wasn't a break in , dang!! LoL ... anyway , on a serious note glad that it wasn't a robbery or some kind , and the fact that they were trying to save the lady was comforting in itself. Curious , what would you do if that was really a break-in situation? I know I would call the police , in my room ... perched up in a corner , ahha..
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
4 Apr 11
The most excitement that has happened in my neighborhood was the snow on the 30th of March and the thunderstorms today. Nothing much happens here, which is fine with me!
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@cream97 (29085)
• United States
19 May 11
Hi. ElicBxn. I would have picked to go to the hospital too. To spend time in jail after being in an automobile accident, is a bit if a huge mess. I wouldn't decide to go there myself either. We have not had any excitement around here. But everyday on this road, long distance trucks are constantly beeping their horns like crazy. I wonder why they do this while they are driving. And ambulances pass this street almost half of the day when I am inside of my home.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
4 Apr 11
nICE & QUIET IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD MOST ALL TIME, THANK HEAVENS.BAD THING HERE IS EVERYBODY IS SICK.
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
4 Apr 11
It's pretty boring here. Last week I was at a friend's. She lives outside of DC in Maryland. She drove me around the beltway and that is the most excitement I had. Those people drive crazy. Some of them drive like they are drunk. They switch lanes without using turn signals and everyone is going WAY over the speed limit.
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
4 Apr 11
"Excitement" revolves around our neighbours that have been there about 5 years or so (the new ones the other way are quiet..up to now at least) and the other night Kenny was bundled into a police van. John being a Virgo (nosy, which can be handy for me lol) told me that "they're taking ages driving him off" but then we realised that he was being seperated from Amanda in the house, presumably to get each of their stories.
Kick-offs always revolve around those two. It can be quite entertaining listening to them have a go at their "friends" in the street, usually when Kenny is intoxicated.
I can't understand why they've had 3 kids though. Can't be nice for them having er..argumentative parents!
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
5 Apr 11
I've noticed Amanda hasn't got pregnant lately as she won't get extra cash. All that has stopped now as far as I know. At one time the only way people who didn't work could gain extra cash was by having more kids. Amanda will get Child Benefit for the 3 she has. She's actually Ok, it's Kenny that is the loose cannon, so to speak.
I really don't know what she sees in him!
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