Live, On Tape From Hollywood...
Mood:  quizzical
OK, not really from Hollywood. Some of you know from Rancelot's blog that I'm a 91XXX zip girl. That's somewhere in the San Fernando Valley(see profile).

Now out here in SoCal, you don't have to have OJ in the car to get media attention. Anyone in a high(or low)speed chase gets local, and sometimes national coverage. It's kind of an unofficial spectator sport. My mom was visiting when the memorable stolen "7-UP" truck chase occurred, and she's been hooked ever since. She'll call me up if a chase makes the cable news nets.

Anyway, I was running errands today, and I swear it was like I was watching a movie. The sirens started, cop cars coming up behind me, then from the right, then from in front. They converged at the ally behind me, squealing tires, lights & all. So I pulled out from the curb, and more cars. I rounded the corner, more cars. Up the block to the light, another car. The chopper was up & circling.

Again, this is "The Valley",and they shoot alot of movies & TV shows here. So I can't be positive all this is real, but I don't see any trailers, honey wagons, or people with clipboards & headsets.

I was at work during the Bank of America shootout in... '96 was it? Mr.Man was home, we lived about 6 blocks away from the scene. It was all over the news. Every TV at work(Marketing departments-TV's in every office)had on the news, on every channel.

So, I decide to finish my errands and check out what was going on, on the afternoon news(there's local news on from 11am to 1pm, and from 2pm to 3:30pm, then from 4pm to 6:30pm, and finally 8pm to 11:30pm). An hour & a half later, on the way home from my errands, the chopper's still up, so I decide to go home the way I'd come. Cops still there.

So, I get home, it's 5pm. Perfect timing. I turn on the news... NOTHING!!! I flip through all the channels(even the Spanish language-they have great local coverage), NOTHING!

I call my mom & ask her to check out FOX News... NOTHING.

WHAT THE HELL!!!

I call Mr.Man. He tells me Bro-in-law survived the 1st surgery. Shocked all the docs, guess he was on his 8th life after all. Anyway, I tell Mr.Man what's going on. He says the only time he's seen anything like I described is an "officer down" call in his home town. Makes since. But it's now 5 hours after I first saw activity, and NOTHING on the news.

So now my little brain is working up a conspiracy theory/cover up plot.

Got to get on the road now, or I'll miss most of the piano jazz at The Nut House tonight. See ya there.

Chinquapin
(the password is... Blue Monday)