4:30 Get off work.
5:00 Pick up Annalyn.
5:45 Meet parents for dinner.
6:45 Join family for Light the Night
7:45 Leave before Walk starts as Annalyn completely melts down.
8:45 Arrive home. Put Annalyn to bed.
9:00 Turn on computer. Start watching Grey’s Anatomy season premiere.
9:20 Hear shouting and gunshots. Look out front window.
9:21 Watch SWAT team storm into the house across the street.
9:22 Frantically call Mark until he answers. Try to breathe normally.
9:30 Calm down when realize the two dozen law enforcement officials on street are not rushing.
9:35 Wonder if allowed to take pictures from my own front yard.
9:40 Call neighbor friends who are inconveniently not home.
9:45 Give play-by-play description of activities.
9:50 Close curtains. Resume watching Grey’s Anatomy.
Just another Friday night in the suburbs, right?
Unreal. Just . . . I don’t know. It’s not that I’m surprised to learn that this particular neighbor is in trouble.
But to look out my front window and see men in vests and helmets storming into my neighbor’s house? To hear shots fired and to see lights flashing and to lose count of all the official vehicles parking in front of my house? To watch two people be pulled from the house across the street and be pushed onto their knees in the grass?
Well, it’s a little crazy.
How was your Friday night?
Oh. My. Goodness!!! That is unbelievable!
But not really because we had the same sort of thing happen lots and lots of years ago right after we moved into our house. Suddenly all sorts of cops with guns drawn were around our house. One of them came to the door to tell us to get in our basement because something was going on at our neighbor's house. Pretty crazy, like you described, but after a while it was over. All a big misunderstanding. The wife works at the hospital and she called in to get her schedule just as someone called in a suicide attempt. They traced both numbers, but went to the wrong house. I'm still wondering how surrounding a house with cops with their guns drawn would stop someone from killing themselves though.
ok, shelly has a crazy story too! wow! what a weird night! did you take any pictures? i would've been snapping them out my window…
i hope that you don't have any more drama over there for a while!
Good thing Annalyn had a meltdown so you could get home in time to see all that! ;)
Wow. A made-for-tv drama right outside your window! How exciting and a little scary. Let us know if you find out the details on what exactly went down!
Wow! Gunshots and everything! Did you ever find out exactly what happened??
I saw on your FB page that Annalyn slept trough it all…kids are amazing, aren't they?
When Honor was about 9 months old, we had an "interruption" at about 2 am. Her bedroom was close to the front door and both of our dogs were going nuts. It was a police officer. Apparently someone had reported a stolen vehicle on our property. Kind of hilarious to anyone who knows us. :-D. After talking to my husband for 20 minutes, he left, satisfied that it was a false report.
While he was there, he also attempted to get us to report that our neighbor's teenager was a meth addict. We couldn't say that we'd seen anything unusual over there.
The really funny thing was, at the time we had my 17 year old cousin living with us in our basement. When he heard the dogs barking, he seriously considered running up the stairs with a Renaissance Fair short sword. That wouldn't have helped our case much… :-D
Anyway…all that to say…Honor slept soundly right through 20 minutes of dogs barking right outside her bedroom door… that's a good sleeper!
That happened at my parents' house years ago when I was in high school. We did what any normal family would do: Went into the room with the best view, turned off all the lights so we could see what was going on over there more easily, and passed around my Dad's super-strength binoculars while my mom made popcorn.
Might as well have fun with it, ya know?
AAAGGGHHHH!!! OH NO! That is so incredibly scary. It's even scarier to think what might have been going on right next door, huh? I hope y'all are okay! EEEEKKK!