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March 25, 2005
Bad Boys, Bad Boys...Whacha Gonna Do?
What a bit of excitement! I was at the cell phone store just before karate class yesterday around 6:15. I'm standing at the counter when I hear someone yelling outside. I turn to look out the window and I see this Ann Arbor cop pointing a shotgun at some poor old street bum. He's yelling, "GET ON THE GROUND, GET ON THE GROUND!...GET ON YOUR STOMACH NOW!" There was also a female cop pointing her Glock at the poor guy who looked very confused and seemed as if he had absolutely no idea what was going on. He looked pretty harmless.
As I try to understand what's going on, I see the man was holding a long box with a picture of a rifle on it. Now, I don't know if he stole it or what--my guess is someone passing by him saw it, freaked out and called 911. The more I looked around at the scene, I realize there was a SWARM of police around him: about 5 or 6 squad cars (2 on each side of the corner of the store and 1 or 2 kitty-corner across the intersection), not to mention more than a half-dozen officers including the ones with the guns trained on the poor dude.
He slowly went down to the ground on his stomach as ordered, then the police searched his pockets. All I saw that he had on him was a pocket watch, his wallet, some smokes and a BB gun, besides the box he was carrying. They promptly cuffed him and dragged him away and it was over in less than 5 minutes.
I couldn't believe my eyes! I've never seen anything like that in person. It was like being in an episode of Cops. And I thought it was a completely excessive use of force. The store owner said the guy was a local drunk, which is probably why he seemed so disoriented. I must say that the show of force the police gave frightened me to think they'd open fire on the guy and we'd all have to take cover. Especially as close as we were...I mean, we were separated by what was going on outside by merely a glass window and a couple of feet of distance.
Bad boys, bad boys...whacha gonna do when they come for you??
Posted by Amy at March 25, 2005 07:00 AM
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Maybe he had a Fluffy Pillow?
Posted by: Silver marble at March 27, 2005 01:57 PM
No, I didn't find out anything more. I might stop by the cell phone store again to see if they heard anything more about it.
Posted by: Amy at March 25, 2005 04:32 PM
Gosh!!! Exciting things seem to love your company!!! I will have to hang around with you more often, maybe move in your house? Just kidding!!!! Any more outcome from that episode?
Posted by: Mary at March 25, 2005 11:04 AM
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