My friend's 6 year old son...

[momtoprincess A]

Came in from the backyard yesterday afternoon saying
"That policeman with the gun told me to come in the house"

That one police officer was then joined by 3 others in her backyard.
The house behind her's had a hostage situation and apparently they had a clear shot from her yard. Everything ended calmly in a few hours.
We live in a nice neighborhood where our children all walk to school etc...
Nothing like this ever happens.

 

[dislaney]

Came in from the backyard yesterday afternoon saying
"That policeman with the gun told me to come in the house"

That one police officer was then joined by 3 others in her backyard.
The house behind her's had a hostage situation and apparently they had a clear shot from her yard. Everything ended calmly in a few hours.
We live in a nice neighborhood where our children all walk to school etc...
Nothing like this ever happens.

Just goes to show you that things like that can and do happen anywhere! Glad everything is okay!

 

[chibichibirei]

Yikes! glad everyone is ok.

 

[DaisyLynn]

Wow! Glad everything and everyone is ok! That's pretty scary.

 

[threecheers9980]

When I lived in North Hollywood, CA, I lived only two or three blocks from where the North Hollywood shootout took place. I remember the cops going down my street and telling everyone to go inside and stay inside. I went with my mom to pick up my sister at school that afternoon and they wouldn't let us back on to the street, so we spent the night at a teacher's house. My father hung out at a sandwich shop nearby for much of the evening until he was allowed back onto our street. The next day, my family moved to where we live today. Quite an exciting ending to living in the city.

I'm glad everyone is okay in your situation.

 

[Handbag Lady]

When I lived in North Hollywood, CA, I lived only two or three blocks from where the North Hollywood shootout took place. I remember the cops going down my street and telling everyone to go inside and stay inside. I went with my mom to pick up my sister at school that afternoon and they wouldn't let us back on to the street, so we spent the night at a teacher's house. My father hung out at a sandwich shop nearby for much of the evening until he was allowed back onto our street. The next day, my family moved to where we live today. Quite an exciting ending to living in the city.

I'm glad everyone is okay in your situation.

I remember that day. I was working on the Westside and we pretty much stopped down to watch on TV. Luckily, I lived in Marina del Rey at the time. Now, I live on the other side of the hill and I can't imagine how it would have been. Glad you were not caught up in it.

 

[suecait]

Sadly I can relate also. It was several yrs ago early Easter morning woke up at 5 AM to find police & an ambulance at the end of our driveway. I tried to find out what was happening & basically was told stay in your house. (Less than a yr before we had moved out of the burbs to a more rural area.) Well a little later here comes the SWAT team & truck down the street of course stopping at the end of our driveway. Apparently we were the base camp. Later the swat team is going down the side of the property line through our back yard making their way over to the neighbors property (some on the side some to the back end. I did get a lot on film. It turned out to be a several hr ordeal of the cops on loud speakers telling the people to come out of the house. Ended with several tear bombs & stuff tossed into the house before they finally came out. Stories I heard later were three guys having a bachlor party (seems odd on Easter Sunday), getting drunk, shooting some guns off in the middle of the night (I never heard them) & supposedly passed out & never heard the cops for the stand off. Of course that seems a bit fishy to me.

It made for an interesting story at Easter brunch that day.

 

[Pdowning98]

Glad to hear that everything turned out well for your neighborhood

Several years ago when we moved to a more rural suburb, it was the afternoon, kids coming home from school they closed our street due to a man who was mentally ill waving around a semi-automatic rifle. He was shot and killed by officers. The mobile home was torn down not long after. Very sad, it can happen anywhere!

 

[holycow]

When I read that it reminded me of the time our then DS 6 comes in and says hey mom, there is a bloody guy on our lawn! YIKES! there was. He robbed the guy down the street jumped through a window and the neighbor tackled him on our lawn. SCARY!


Glad everything turned out ok!

 

[disfan07]

The closest thing i've experienced to this was the DC Sniper. We lived in Fairfax County (about 20 miles west of DC). There was a county wide school lockdown (no recess, no outside gym, no afterschool activties and no walking to or from school) and than each school could institute other policies. My middle school was near a major road so they had police officers outside securing the school all day and the busses from our school that took any of the major roads in the county had 2 police officers as well.

We were also in the Capitol during the shooting there back in 1999 i think it was (I was 10...it took my parents months to get me to go back into the city)

 

[Disney Doll]

When I read that it reminded me of the time our then DS 6 comes in and says hey mom, there is a bloody guy on our lawn! YIKES! there was. He robbed the guy down the street jumped through a window and the neighbor tackled him on our lawn. SCARY!


Glad everything turned out ok!

That happened to us too!
I was woking evenings.
DH was watching TV in the livingroom, doorbell rings at about 9pm, he opens to a guy standing there holding up a badge plus he has a guy in a headlock and says to DH "Call th epolice and tell them an officer needs back up here". The off duty cop and the guy then proceeded to wrestle around on my front lawn whie DH called and in about 30 secinds about 8 police cars came screaming onto my street. Turns out off duty cop noticed the guy driving erratically just as the guy hit the phone pole across the street, got out of the carm started stumbling around, the off duty cop told him he was an off duty cop, the drunk guy lunged at him, all kinds of carrying on till the off duty cop got him into the headlock and under some control and was able to ring the doorbell!

 

[golfgal]

I know my first reaction to that comment would have been to laugh and say something about imaginations...

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

Holy smokes, y'all have had some crazy things happen! Glad everyone's okay.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Several years ago, a high-speed police chase ended on our usually quiet residential street. The officer was trying to do a routine stop for an expired registration sticker but the driver wouldn't stop because he had a meth kit in his car and was high on meth, too! He ended up turning into our neighborhood, hitting a parked car next door and hitting our across the street neighbor's SUV that was parked in his driveway. The car ended up being wedged between the SUV and a huge bush and he couldn't back it out. So the guy jumped out of the car and went into another neighbor's backyard. The officer stated chasing the guy on foot and another neighbor was yelling, "Everyone get in your houses!" About 10 more police cars showed up because the officer had a trainee in his car who was able to call in their exact location. The fugative hopped a few fences and ended up several streets over from us. He broke his arm in the process of running away and asked a guy who was working in his garage for a ride to the hospital. The guy said no and promptly called the 911, not knowing about the situation on our street and where they guy came from. They caught him within a few minutes. We stood in our neighbor's yard and watched the officer clean out the car and inventory everything that was in it. He showed us what the meth kit looked like. I gave the officers bottled water and Christmas cookies which they appreciated! It was a very interesting December day!

 

[Mickey527]

We live not too far from the city jail, you have to walk about two blocks, then walk through the HS lot, then the jail is across the street.
About 10 years ago someone broke out of jail and was being chased through the streets. The guy wound up on our street and hopped a fence into my neighbors yard. Little did he know that the yard he chose was a Bridgeport Cop, who just happened to be a police dog cop. The guy jumped the fence and the dog jumped the guy. then my neighbor got his gun and cuffs and the guy was back in jail.
We were all lucky that he didn't chose any other yard because all the kids were home from school and playing in their yards. He just happened to pick the wrong house.