My building is in the middle of a police quarentine zone, because the pharmacy diagonally across the intersection was held up shortly after I arrived at work. Those of us at work can't leave. Those who hadn't arrived at work can't enter. At least I'm trapped somewhere with heat. So much for being in the safe part of town.
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The plot thickens. There has now been an on going hostage situation for the past several hours. Every once in a while we hear a siren. We've been advised to stay away from windows on the street side. If we really need to leave the building for a cup of coffee or something, we're allowed to leave by the loading dock in the back alley. People in my building are pretty relaxed. I've heard rumors that the robbers surrendered in just the last half hour. I bet snipers were on the roof of my building.
Apparently the store was in the process of being held up at or almost exactly at the time that I walked by it on my way to work. Glad that I didn't go in. Quite an odd day.
Crazy. I wonder if Dusty was on your roof.
or maybe it went something like this...
Strauss walks quickly through a cold Tuesday morning in downtown Washington, DC. Out of the corner of his eye, he thinks he sees Dusty standing in a CVS on the corner near his work, but when he turns to take a closer look, no one is there. Strauss shrugs it off and continues into his office building. Cut back to the CVS. We are looking in the front of the pharmacy from the sidewalk outside. Dust is standing back up after picking up the bagel he just dropped in the floor. Luckily, it was in a convenient bagel bag. Unluckily, he drops the bagel again when he sees an attractive young woman brandishing a handgun. Something semi-automatic. When the cops later examine the surveilance camera tapes, they will notice Dusty and this young woman, whose name is Suzie, casualy chatting as they enter the store a few minutes before. But this is a few minutes later, and she has lost some of her previous non-chalance. Dusty tries hard to remember his training, but all he can seem to do is bounce from foot to foot in a little hopping motion and flash an awkward smile that fades into an uncomfortable grin. As Suzie keeps talking faster and faster, Dusty's longitudinal hoppping speeds up at the same rate. Through the glass doors of the store, we can hear the noise of her voice and of the terrified clerk trying to talk her down, but we cannot make out the exact words over the traffic noises. Finally another customer, reading a paper as he walks and therefore oblivious to the scene he is about to stumble upon, walks up to the CVS and activates the automatic sliding doors. As the doors open, we hear a single sentence of the desparate beauty's diatribe, half screamed and half cried: "If you won't give me beautiful pilot babies, then none of us are leaving this pharamacy alive!" The stranger drops his paper and his barely tasted Starbucks grande black coffee as the doors to the pharmacy slide closed behind him. We see flashing red and blue lights reflected in the glass doors and we hear the sound of sirens in the distance...
Here's the real story if anyone is interested. It's actually kind of comical. Police treated the place as a hostage situation, when the gun men had been gone for hours.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15954-2004Dec21.html
D.C. Police Search for Armed Robbers
Streets Reopen After Employees Escape Safely
By Josh Herr
Washington Post Beat Writer
Tuesday, December 21, 2004; 1:14 PM
Streets were closed in parts of downtown Washington for four hours this morning as heavily armed police searched in vain for an armed robber and possible hostages inside a Rite Aid drugstore at the corner of 15th and L Streets NW.
Customers fled the store during the 8 a.m. robbery, but two employees sought refuge in a side office and made contact with the police.
Police initially thought the gunman remained inside and was holding the workers hostage. A team of at least a dozen SWAT team officers, including snipers, descended on the corner of 15th Street.
But after conducting a search of the store, they determined the suspect had escaped.
An orange jumpsuit and a bagel bag were found outside the store in a rear alley, but it was unclear if it was prison-issued, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a police spokesman.
No one was injured. It was not yet known whether or not the robber obtained money.
By Josh Herr!!! WTF?!?
I told you these bagel bags were going to be the next big thing.
Coye, what is Josh up to now?
yeah, if not for the bagel bag...
But the real question is: "What did Dusty tell her?"
And Coye, why are you using language like, "WTF?!?!?!" I thought only I knew what the stood for because of my Army friends. But they add, "WTF, over???"
Let's wash Coye's mouth out with soap!
Or we could wash my mouth out with a nice cabernet sauvignon...oh wait, that's what I'm doing right now.
in general, my soldiers use the word "heck" "crap" etc....What kind of show are you running over there Adam!
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