Good god.

[katallison]

I just sauntered out to put a bagful of glass bottles in the recycling bin behind my garage, sniffing the fine soft air, enjoying the peaceful quiet of a summer morning. After getting the bag stowed and putting the lid back on the bin, I heard someone say "Ma'am!" Looked up, and across the alley was a uniformed cop holding a rifle, in a take-cover position behind the neighbor's garage. Another, also with rifle, was crouched behind the garbage cans. The first one said, "You better get in back in your house, ma'am." I *motored* back in.

So now I'm scanning news outlets and listening for gunshots. Jeekers. (And it might be prudent to lock the back door and take my smoke breaks out front, for the nonce.)

ETA: All appears to be clear now. Still and all, jeekers.

Comments

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

o_o

*emails baseball bat*

[debchan.livejournal.com]

Yikes! What did it end up being about?

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. The fourplex right across the alley from me has been a chronic problem property, but has never attracted armed officers before, to my knowledge. The police now seem to have cleared out, however, so I'm hoping it's safe to go out again. *wibble*

[luminosity]

Oh shit. The Recycling Police!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Heeee! "Ma'am, we've received word that glass and plastics are being mixed. We're going to ask you to set the bag down slowly and back away from the bin."

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[arallara.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Yes, do be careful!

When I was in my 20's and living out here with my dad for a while, I came home a few hours later than my dad one night, and when I got there, he told me that the police had searched our house!! He had come home and been met at the turn into our driveway by a patrol car. The officer told him an fugitive was hiding in the area, and asked if he had been gone all eveningb and whether the house had been locked. When my dad said he had been out for hours and the house was unlocked, the officers had my dad wait while they searched our house! I mean, I suppose it was the right and necessary thing, but it freaked me out nonetheless. It certainly made me pay a little more attention to what kinds of things I left lying around in plain sight. *g*

Do let us know if there's any other excitement or if you find out what's happening!

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

My brother John the cop (as opposed to my other brother Mark the cop) says that one thing he didn't expect in his police job was that he goes into =everybody's= homes. So it's sort of like doctors and naked bodies -- they see them all the time and hardly pay attention except to the stuff they're looking for, like bad guys. :-)

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Eeesh! Glad there were no gunshots--that's a pretty scary way to start a Saturday!

*hugs*

[logovo.livejournal.com]

"Ma'am!" Looked up, and across the alley was a uniformed cop holding a rifle, in a take-cover position behind the neighbor's garage. Another, also with rifle, was crouched behind the garbage cans. The first one said, "You better get in back in your house, ma'am."

Well, now that the coast is clear I can say this is pretty funny. However, because it must be asked, were the cops hot?

:p

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

dude! thats freaking SCARY!

yikes.

stay inside and read porn! its the only safe thing to do, I tell ya!

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

eeek!

Fascinating, but still!

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Holy moley. Glad you're okay!

[wickdzoot.livejournal.com]

Meep!!! :pets kat nervously: Run away!

[dine.livejournal.com]

jeekers!

wow, what a way to inject a bit of adreline into a fine morning. glad nothing (apparently) actually happened.

perhaps you can invest in a nice kevlar vest for future recycling jaunts?

yoinks!

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad that you're nice and un-bullet-riddled.

Eeep!

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

That sounds ultra-scary:( Hope everything was okay in the end.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Glad it's over, glad you're okay, hope there are juicy (but not too gory) details forthcoming, in which it was all a hilarious mistake.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

when I read this, I flashed back to the annual summer recycling ritual: you drag yourself to the curb in the morning to drop off your recyling, when (a) granny on a bike or (b) 2 hefty guys in a truck leap out, wrestle your recycling away from you, and drive/bike off with it. We've gotten used to the sound of rattling bottles and cans in our bins by these human-raccoons.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Jeekers! I hope nobody got hurt.

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope you were making mental notes for future stories.

Yeep!

[tazlet.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you showed the only wise response to Reality--run away, run away.

[alexfandra.livejournal.com]

I was once woken up from an afternoon nap by my furiously barking wiener dogs, got up, opened the back door, and found a uniformed cop coming out of my garden shed. Out front were five cop cars and more cops searching our street for a guy who had walked into someone's home through an open back door and robbed the elderly couple inside. Three cops searched my back yard and one of them leaped, or rather, tried to leap, over my 4-foot wood fence into the yard behind mine because he thought he saw someone back there. He was a tad out of shape and it took him three tries.

The nice thing was that I had just finished installing a flagstone patio, and my landscaper friend who helped me do it said, "You need to walk around on it a lot over the next few days to help it settle." The three large, well-built cops spent quite a bit of time stomping across the stones, and settled it much better than I ever could have.

They never did catch the guy. Sigh.

I'm glad you are right and I dearly hope you have no further surprises of this nature! Be careful with that recycling!

Eek!

[sherrold.livejournal.com]

Well, I bet you didn't need to work out today -- your heartrate must have climbed like a monkey.

I'm glad it seems to have taken care of itself without further drama, but sheesh, that must have been a kick in the ass!

[tehomet.livejournal.com]

Crikey! Glad you're okay. What kind of freakin' neighbourhood do you live in, anyway?!