We’re driving down the street in the car.
We’re in some random neighborhood that you sometimes have to drive through in order to get to where you want to go. This isn’t a bad neighborhood, it just has more thrift stores and yummier restaurants. We drive down this street several times a week.
We’re stopped at a stoplight and a police car with the siren blaring zooms past us.
Crappy Boy (who is my backseat driver, newly interested in stoplights, traffic rules and such) exclaims that the police car just ran the red light!
I explain:
I tell him that police officers can break the rules sometimes, like when they are catching bad guys and I explain that sometimes they might need to get somewhere quickly.
He seems impressed.
So impressed in fact, that he decides:
Police officer is way better than some of his previous career aspirations, like pirate and robot.
But before I can start going over the police officer job description (other than speeding and running red lights which obviously are perks) I notice that the police car stopped on the next block.
I figure they can get a close up look at the police car as we drive past. I figure that the police are probably just pulling someone over for speeding.
So I mention it. Point it out.
Only when we get a tad bit closer I see two police officers who don’t look like regular police officers jump out of a car holding guns that don’t look like regular police guns.
Actually there are a few police officers and a couple more police cars parked on a side street. They are surrounding the entrance of a fabric store.
It looks like this:
They are all crouched down like in the movies just before everyone starts shooting and people start to die.
Except there aren’t any of those movie trucks or lights or cameras or anything. No, this is real.
So naturally, I panic:
I want to drive away as FAST as possible! I must put as much distance between us and the stray bullets that I’m envisioning careening through the car windows.
Must. Protect. Children.
Only the car in front of me does not have the same reaction. Instead, the idiot just stops. STOPS TO WATCH!
Gee, look! Big guns! Let’s stop traffic and watch!
There is a parked car next to him and cars passing in the other direction and a line of cars behind me so I’m trapped. Trapped right next to where this is all taking place. With my kids watching from the back seat!
I consider honking. Should I honk? That seems like a bad idea. A loud honk might startle everyone and then the shooting and dying will start.
I have to get us out of here!
So I scream and make wild gestures at the car in front of me.
Finally, sloooooowly, he starts to pull away.
Finally, we move.
A few seconds later we hear a helicopter.
We continue to drive. We’re many blocks away now. Safe.
The kids are silent, probably because they could tell just how freaked out I was, which made them scared.
I calm down and start talking to them.
I have to make sure they aren’t scarred for life or anything. (Like I am.)
Crappy Boy asks me why the police were at the fabric store. I tell him that I don’t know. That maybe someone was trying to rob the store. Or they were looking for someone who was hiding inside. Who knows.
Then he suggests a possibility:
This idea is so incredulous that it makes me laugh a little. Creative though.
Almost sounds like a movie.
He excitedly agrees that he is indeed writing a movie script based on what he saw.
I know that pretend play is a way that kids process experiences. I remember reading (in the book Playful Parenting
So I continue with the movie thing.
Why would they rob a fabric store? Why not a jewelry store? Isn’t that a more classic choice? Maybe he’ll edit his movie.
But Crappy Boy has an answer:
Wow, that is actually pretty good. (And an appropriate thing for him to say since the last time I took him to a fabric store was to make his Halloween costume.)
Crappy Boy is okay. Totally his normal self. Phew.
So I turn my attention to Crappy Baby.
I ask him if he is okay. He has been pretty quiet. He is sensitive and gets especially scared if I’m scared.
He responds:
But he isn’t scared at all!
And then Crappy Boy has a generous idea:
He offers him a part in his movie. And everyone is happy.
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We live in Los Angeles, CA. No, this isn’t something we see all the time here. I see famous people more often than I see guns. I have seen police with their guns drawn one other time in my life but that was outside of a Target® in Madison, WI. So there.
Other than telling Crappy Papa about what we saw “Papa! We saw bad guys shooting people at a fabric store!!!” they haven’t even mentioned it.
However, Crappy Boy has been writing more movie scripts lately. But this just means he tells me what my part is and then I improvise while he yells at me that I’m doing it all wrong.
UPDATE: it was a robbery. That is all the info I could find online from those crime report map sites. It didn’t make the news, which means the cops were just cops and not bad guys in costume or anything interesting.
This is hilarious. Nevertheless, I’m going to flounce now because you didn’t swear enough.
Oops, I realize I did say “shit” in this one. And here I thought it was a clean one. Sigh, I tried.
You really handled that well Amber!!!
dude. your kids are just AWEsome. FWIW, i would have had *exactly* your reaction.
This is so incredibly awesome! I love the way they think, and I also love how you screamed at the rubber-necker. What’s wrong with those people???
And now it’s time for me to go plan my fabric heist. I just need a cop costume…
like
I would totally rob a fabric store.
I’d rob a yarn store…just saying…
If they were robbing a fabric store I would wager one of them was my mother… (even though we’re in Memphis).
Fabulous! Love the imaginations of kidlets… they come up with everything… and great thinking on the police descriptions…
I think the picture of the idiot stopped in his car with his idiot license plate made this for me! So funny, and when your boys are famous movie stars and film writers, they can look back and remember where the inspiration came from.
Agreed — this illustration is the one that had me laughing out loud! Thank you, Amber!!
d..do you live in my house? becasue I swear my boys have had this exact conversation! We saw a high speed pursuit the other day, and the whole ride home was filled with speculation about what the bad guy did (had to reassure my son that no, the bad guy did not kill his teacher
), and what the cops would do to him. Bloodthirsty little tykes!
So in the end they became a writer and an actor.
My daughter wanted to be a Rock Star Scientist for over a year. I watched NCIS quite a bit and we all LOVE Abby. Now I think it is a Marine Biologist or Zookeeper. She loves seals so she wants to work with them.
We *might* have come up with my daughter’s name while watching NCIS. Abby has yet to see the show or her name sake. I would be happy for her to become a rockstar scientist. For Sure!
We named our puppy Jethro after Gibbs
don’t know how I’m going to wait 2 whole months for the next season 
Once we drove our car home and there were police officers with machine gun type guns in our parking area…that didn’t scare the crap out of me or anything! It turned out there had been some bank robberies in other nearby cities (not actually in ours) and they had been robbing the bank from the roof and next door to our house was a bank and the alarm had gone off. It was actually a false alarm, but it was pretty nail biting for a while, they told us we were totally safe in the house though…um, pretty sure my windows don’t stop bullets so I don’t believe you.
PS: when I lived in LA I never saw a famous person “in the wild” (only at graduations and such) and I saw cops with guns (and people mugging me with guns) all the time…I think you are just lucky.
I mostly see famous people at the grocery store and farmer’s markets. And restaurants. Actually everywhere!
I have only been in LA for 10 days – but I didn’t see any guns and I was on the plane from Philadelphia to LA with Lemmy from Motorhead
And I gave Mickey Mouse a cuddle (totally counts!) Actually, not true, I did see guns – but only because we went to a shooting gallery – twice!
Mickey Mouse counts for sure!
I grew up in Burbank, CA–where many of the studios are located. I still live in Orange County, CA and visit LA all the time. I’ve hardly ever seen celebrities, and I hang out in places where they are known to congregate in the wild. Either they are never where I am, or I’m the most incredibly un-observant person to ever walk the Earth!
There might be something to that, I almost NEVER recognize them myself – my husband always does & points it out.
I am the same way. I lived in Sun Valley Idaho for a while and saw two people exiting a movie theater who seemed oddly familiar. Suddenly it dawned on me after they had passed that it was Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore… they look so different in real life!
I would have been freaking out too and super pissed at the idiot gawking! Actually something similar happened when we were passing an car that had flipped over just weeks after flipping over in our own car. We all walked away but the accident we were s-l-o-w-l-y passing had people lying on stretchers. I was freaked it would trigger something in the kids who had been dealing with things well. Of course I was the only one freaked out by it.
Also my kid writes plays (east coast dwellers) and always argues with me about not acting my part correctly. Until I quit!
Everytime this happens to us (we do a lot of traveling by car on busy highways and unfortunately see a lot of accidents) my 4y/o son says, “Mommy, lets say a prayer and ask Jesus to help them!” Tear!
That is really sweet.
We always say a prayer when we see an accident or when a firetruck or ambulance go by. We ask for everyone involved — paramedics, fire fighters too — to be safe and if there’s a death involved, we pray for the friends and family to be comforted and that the deceased may enter Heaven.
Awwww, that really touched me. My husband’s an EMT so it makes me feel good that someone might be praying for him when he’s working. Thanks for sharing.
We do that too…. Always pray for everyone who loves those involved…. I think it’s amazing for children to grow up thinking this way… if we all did it, what a different world they would have than what we did.
I love that! My 5 yo son does the same thing!! We saw a car flipped over about a year ago and he STILL prays for them every now and then.
I <3 the "IDIOT" license plate on the car in front of you. If you printed up sticker license plates that said "IDIOT", I would totally buy them!
Crap. I finally remember how to make the cutesy little heart, only to discover that only works on Facebook!
PS One of my kiddos also wants to be a cop. Or a gas station attendant. I’ve asked him to reconsider his career choices, but then he decided a Major League Baseball player seemed better. Hmmm…
My 6 y.o. announced at Kindergarten graduation that he wants to be a car washer when he grows up. When I talked with him later he said he’d thought about being a tire washer but that washing whole cars sounded better. He’d also considered being a mechanic because ‘they can wash cars too’ but thought he’ just focus on car washing. He also made it clear he did not want to own the car wash, he just wanted to do the fun part.
Would you apply them to other people’s cars?
only people that park across 4 spaces.
Good idea!
There is a website where you can get stickers to put on cars when people park like idiots…
http://iparklikeanidiot.com/
I personally loved the vanity plate on the idiot’s car
Oh my god, the picture of the car ahead of you, with the “idiot” license plate – and the rear view of your kids…. that is your most brilliant, amazing drawing ever. I started laughing at work when I should not have been happy. You are awesome.
That was my favorite too! Thanks Amber and I’m glad you all made it past the fabric store safely.
Our kids would have such a great time together! I’m in Sudbury, ON and since moving here in November I have seen more police chases and police helicopters then I ever did before in my entire life…it’s crazy! Although the chopper is usually out looking for missing children :S
Holy cow – scary! So glad all are okay and that the boys got a new fun play idea out of it and Mommy got an awesome blog post out of it!
Keep ‘em coming!
I was actually pretty impressed with the amount of detail in the police-at-fabric-store picture! For stick figures, it was BRILLIANT!
So did you go home and watch the news all night to see what the Fabric Store drama was all about?
I didn’t but I did look it up online several days later…and it was a robbery.
You need to check out these ‘written by children’ little movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef2wnLL1s00
And yes, the picture of the “idiot” car, with all the little details in it, is like the best thing ever.
I will check those out, thanks!
This is hilarious- I love the SQUAT team. And Joss Whedon is in it!
Hey, we live right by that Madison, WI, Target store. I wonder what those fake cops looking to steal? I mean, Target has so many fine items that any fake-cop would absolutely need while going about his day-to-day fake-copness.
Sunglasses, maybe?
Wow! Did you watch the news later to find out what was really going on at the fabric store?
It was a robbery – I looked up the crime report online later.
yikes, I would have freaked! Your kids are so cute they way they react to things. Good for you for how you handle it. Did you ever find out what happened at the fabric store? Now you’ve peaked my curiosity!
Crappy Boy is clearly a natural director.
That is the truth.
I would have been tempted to get out of my car and bodily remove the idiot in front of you. Guess he didn’t appreciate it was real life.
Recently there was a hostage situation in the town where I grew up (small midwestern town of Valparaiso, Indiana) where a guy freaked out and took a real estate office hostage in the middle of the day. The standoff finally ended when he killed himself. None of the hostages were killed. Anyway, that’s not my point. My point is that people showed up with LAWN CHAIRS to watch. And they brought their CHILDREN. Jesus wept.
They brought their lawn chairs and kids?!?!?!? I’m suddenly embarrassed to be a Hoosier…
Good grief.
I think you handled that better than I did. The “homeless serial killer” stuff was in our neighborhood, and the night they caught him we got the scary recording on our phone to stay inside and there were helicopters for hours. I was scared, so the kids were scared. I think my 8 year old thinks serial means cereal though. She kept asking, “Did they catch the cereal?” (I hadn’t been letting them play outside for weeks, so she at least knew there was a “bad guy called cereal” out there somewhere. Makes me laugh now.
The cereal!
some of your best drawings to date! I love the idiot license plate and your rearview mirror with the kids.
Glad everyone is safe!
“Only when we get a tad bit closer I see two police officers who don’t look like regular police officers jump out of a car holding guns that don’t look like regular police guns.”
When I read this part, I, also, thought they might be bad guys pretending to be cops. LOL
Me too!
When I read that line… my mind went in a completely different direction. I thought they were male strippers there to spice up a quilting class. Then I realized I was probably wrong on that thought.
I thought they would be fake cops too. Lol at the strippers!
There was a piece on the news recently where some cops turned up to a party in a motel room in Sydney, Australia, because there were noise complaints. Unfortunately the party was a Hen’s Night, and the girls thought the *real* cops were actually stippers (ROFL) … the comment at the end of the article had the area police manager reporting that “all the police made it out with their clothes intact” :>
I assumed she meant they were SWAT
But I wish my brain’s default thought was “strippers!”
And Kim, that is awesome! I can imagine what a narrow escape that must have been for the cops
What a GREAT story! PLEASE come back and tell us what was happening. Fabric store??
I think one of the policemen is married to a crafter and he TOLD her that if she went into that fabric store ONE MORE TIME…
Or maybe there was a heavily armed knitter in there.
Now that is what I’m choosing to believe!
Sounds like something from Major Crimes/The Closer…. speaking of which what famous people do you see in LA?
The most recent one (2 weeks ago?) was Lou Diamond Phillips at Ralph’s. Which is a grocery store. The childhood girl in me who loved La Bamba was all giddy inside but I just pretended not to notice him because I’m cool like that and those are the rules.
But you’re also allowed to whisper “I Love You” to their backs… or am I playing the game wrong?
I usually meet celebrities in captivity (conventions or movie sets) but even here in Seattle we do have a lot of them just wandering the streets at odd hours. They’re usually cool if you call them “Mr.” or “Ms.”, don’t ask them to sign anything, don’t say “HEY EVERYONE, IT’S JOHNNY DEP!!” and just tell them you loved their work – the more artistic and obscure the work the better
WOW! How exciting! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! With kids trying to get me to play and stuff and me saying, ‘Not right now I’m reading a story!’
“Holy shit! Get us out of hear!” spit my drink out when I read that line. I can sooo see me doing that!
Love it! The Idiot vanity plate was the best. I don’t have kids to protect but I’d have the same response you did. “Pull over to watch if you want to die. Let those of us with brains through!”
I lived in the L.A. area for 35 years. Just moved away two years ago. I’ve never seen any kind of police show down but I’ve had plenty of star sightings. You’re right – they’re far more common.
Hey! I live in Madison and I go to Target like every day! I’ve never seen a cool shoot-out there, though.
It was in 1998, no idea if Target is as exciting these days.
i was just at target in Madison today! no shoot-outs though.
OMG I’d be saying many more swear words than you! And especially at the freaking IDIOT that stopped to view the death and destruction. Such great pictures. Like a comic strip. You should discuss with newspapers to get syndicated.
Oh wait nobody reads newspapers anymore.
“The blogosphere killed the newspaper star!” (to be sung in the tune of “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles of course.
The Buggles!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ
And now that song will be in my head for at least a week.
Yup, totally have that song stuck in my head now!
Love the part about the idiot. My husband is an EMT and the stories he tells me about the idiots on the calls he goes on makes you wonder sometimes.
OMG this was hilarious and so glad you are all okay and that your kids handled it so effortlessly.
On the famous people topic, don’t you have some connection to Maroon 5?
Only slightly… husband’s brother.
I thought so, same last name! You are already famous in my eyes and now even more so!
Your BIL is Ryan?! The original drummer?!? OMG, I am hyperventilating because my worlds just collided. My favorite band and my favorite blog knows each other. OMG!
like everyone else, I love the picture of the idiot gawking. I especially love it because you can see that his mouth is agape.
I love the idiot plates, so funny! I would have had the exact same reaction to get the heck out of there!
You know, here in Brazil criminals sometimes do exactly what Crappy Boy thought up. They set up “false police stops” (that’s a thing here, we use the term “false blitz.” A “blitz” is how we call police stops here. Yeah.)
That particular tactic seems to have gone out of favor lately, though.
Love the detailed drawings in these, especially the detail of the guns. I can tell you have boys. Did you use any laying around the house as reference to draw? I would personally have to look at the hundreds of Lego Star Wars guns in my house to remember such detail! Another great blog Amber!
Btw, I am prego with a little girl and the name Amber is on my short list! Great name!!
We only have their own concocted LEGO guns around the house – I looked up LAPD guns online for the gun details!
RE; Crappy Boy writing movies…check THIS out! Web-isode 1 of “Written by a Kid!” It’s awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef2wnLL1s00
Thanks for taking your drama and turning it into action-packed entertainment for the rest of us! I know where Crappy Boy gets his talents.
errrrrr, I would’ve freaked!
Smart kid you have there Amber!
You handled that really well and I laughed. A LOT. Crappy boy really goes have a fab imagination!
So scary to b trapped like that! I love your depiction of license plate “idiot”. Fabric store Of all places!
Is it bad to be laughing this hard when you were in “crisis” mode?
No! If people can laugh at it then it was all worth something!
I would have had the same reaction as you, but would have been calling 911 to make sure it wasn’t “fake” police. & I’m confused with the whole Fabric store thing too. What are they going to take, reams of fabric!? Haha! I do think however that your son is going to be an amazing screne writer or something of the sorts! Maybe that’s his calling!
Oh and I thought I was going to read a really exciting story for a minute, where you had to run out of the car, saving your children (after having the car incapacitated by a stray bullet to the engine). Making the local news as “hero mom saves kids”.
Or maybe you had to press the accelerator to push the car in front out of the way, after hearing a shoot out between the police and the robbers (and the idiot sitting there not moving out of the way!).
Sigh, I digress. Honestly, I think it is good that it ended well though and that nothing happened. This is better since with your actual scenario as it happened, we continue to get your periodic emails about other funny stories that we can laugh about at work. The other alternative would be an interruption for necessary psychotherapy from dealing with a traumatic event.
Keep those great stories coming!
Omg. I happened to drive by a gunshot victim being pulled from his car. Both my kids were in the backseat. There were lots of questions/comments: why were his eyes closed, his arms were hanging down….it was crazy. Thank you for adding humor to a weird and scary situation!
Yikes, that is awful!
Wow… you have such a cool life.
Now, let’s hear about those famous people you see….
So funny and I feel a little guilty laughing at your scary experience but that idiot plate just killed me!
Loved this post! It’s was like an extra value, extra awesome, extra long peek into your life. My FAVORITE drawing, ever, is the look through your eyes at the IDIOT in the car in front with the kiddos in the rear view mirror. Super scary, but you are awesome, as always!
A similar situation happened to me while I was on my way to work in South Central!!! Some knuckleheads were trying to rob a Burlington Coat Factory at 7:45 a.m. on a random weekday. I thought that all the gangsters were asleep until at least 9 a.m. I was wrong. Anyway, the LAPD had quarantined a block off and cars were rerouted to neighborhoods… but then when police started running past my car with their guns held out, I nearly had a sh**attack. Thank God my kids weren’t in the car. That would have been insanely scary. You’re so brave, Amber. =)
My son, then 19 months, and I recently walked past my bank on the way to his playgroup. There were all sorts of police officers on the sidewalk and in the bank. And they didn’t even block off the sidewalk or anything. We walked very quickly through it. It was obvious some serious shit was going down! He was all leaning out of the stroller trying to grab at the awesome cars. I kind of felt sorry for him but I certainly wasn’ sticking around to see what was going on. Luckily, we missed the actual robbery by like 5 minutes (the guy actually got on the bus and was caught down the route. Now that’s an Idiot!).
I like all of your illustrations, however the one of you looking through your windshield with the boys in the review was particularly thoughtful, detailed, and excellent. I really loved it.
thanks
McCalla
As a police officer I have never done anything cool like that. And since I like to sew I think the fabric store would have been a big distraction for me in apprehending the criminals.
i loved the detail of your boys in the rearview mirror pointing and ogling the action while the idiot blocking traffic. you. are. genius. incarnate.
Hahaha thank you for all of the laughs and amusement! My favorite part was the drawing of the car in front of you with the “IDIOT” license plate and your kiddos pointing in the rearview mirror. So creative. And hilarious.
Oh my gawsh! Love how you explained this. You are hilarious and WOW that would have been scary!!!
I still think robot is a good occupation. And better prepared than a cop during the apocalypse.
Also, I would’ve hit the slow car. The increase in my insurance would’ve been worth it.
That made me smile – the IDIOT on the license plate
Omg, I would’ve totally flipped out! Idk how you had the presence of mind to not honk the horn, bc I totally would’ve honked or *politely* bumped him to move the eff along! Just reading this imagining kids in the car made my blood pressure go up a bit!
THANK YOU!! I am from CA, (canada) and we are having a wave of shooting incidents up here … your blog made me feel normal tonight!!! I am glad you were CALM mama and could you tell Crappy Boy i will TOTALLY pay good money to see his movies – i will even by the expensive popcorn instead of sneaking in home-made!! xoxd
This was such an unexpected story that I laughed so hard (but trying not to wake the kids) I cried. Idiots! LOL! I think I’ll be laughing in my sleep tonight.
Driving my son to his driver’s ed class (feels like there should be some irony in that), we drove right past 5 swat car/suv units surrounding a car with all the cops pointing their weapons at the driver. This was right in front of the high school! I never did find out what that was all about, but I know exactly how you feel about suddenly feeling like you’re in the line of fire. Our discussions afterward weren’t as blog worthy as yours, however, because a 16 year old isn’t as entertaining as little ones.
Hilariously scary! Your policemen had me in stitches! They look like either bank robbers or french artists (wearing berets?) holding machine guns! LOL
omg, scary as it all must have been you made it into such a great story! i laughed, because it also seems so plausible with my boys… now guess what – my OO wanted to know why I’m laughing, read the comic and now… they’re playing ‘the fabric store robbery’
So what we’re saying here is that Hollywood is populated by people who reacted creatively to traumatic childhood experiences? Yup, sounds pretty accurate to me!
This made me laugh because a few years ago, I too witnessed shenanigans at a fabric store. My mother and I were leaving the store in Ft. Myers, FL when we walked into the early stages of what appeared to be a gang fight — it was like the whole West Side Story thing where the opposing sides were getting into position. My mother, who happens to be obsessed with Law & Order wanted to stick around “in case the police need witnesses.” I wanted to get the heck out of there, since it’s hard to make a police report when you are dead. I’m still curious, though, about the choice of fabric store as venue. Never did figure that out.
Okay, this is one of the most hilarious posts of yours (besides the one where your boobs got bigger after your salon haircut). And the award for BEST illustration ever goes to you for writing “IDIOT” on that rubbernecker’s license plate! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA!!!!! Hilarious, I am crying this is so funny.
My hubby is a cop. My oldest tells everyone he is at work catching bad guys and putting them in Jail. Also that Jail is time out for bad guys. Also, when we’re watching a movie she will tell my hubby he needs to go shoot the bad guy in the movie with his black gun (as opposed to the red or purple water guns we have).
Oh, and once we were eating pizza and a terrifying couple with tattoos and such came in and my hubby had to face the other way. Turns out he had arrested them both a month earlier for domestic abuse charges and such. That made dinner exciting.
PS perk of being married to a cop, the kids get to sit in police cars with sirens and lights going on a regular basis…and I can ride along with him on a shift if I like.
I think one of the scarier moments in my life was when I worked overnight at a hotel. I am a meek female and worked there by myself. Two police officers came in to check if someone they were looking for was registered. No alarms yet- this was a regular thing. I was on first name basis with these guys. And I look up their suspect who is, in fact, staying there.
And then all holy heck breaks loose. One got his radio out and made a frantic call to somebody else. Next thing I know there are SWAT cars surrounding my hotel not to mention 4 or 5 more cop cars. They were in full gear and surrounding all exits and doors. I had other guests trickling in who were FREAKED out.
And after about twenty minutes, they brought some little gangly kid out in handcuffs with his friends/girlfriend screaming at the cops that he “di’n't do nuffin’!” It was crazy.
Oh, there was the other time at the same hotel where my security guard (who only worked weekends) saw a light on in an unoccupied room that had the light off before. We knocked on the door and opened it. All we saw was the disappearing foot of someone jumping out the window and fleeing. That was crazy too because we had to call the cops again.
I’m glad I got out of that place.
This exact scene (special cops, special guns, some hiding behind open police car doors, etc..) happened to me, in Los Angeles, across the street from the play park we were at. Unfortunately, it was down the street from our house in a pretty decent neighborhood. It just happened to be my first solo outing with my newborn and 2 year old. 2 year old was NOT happy that he’d finally gotten out of the house, had gotten to play for 5 minutes and was being dragged down the street, away from the park, by his terrified mom!
I grew up in Los Angeles area and have never seen a gun fight or an almost gun fight, or robbers dressed as police officers robbing a joint.
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