Thursday, November 04, 2004

Theres a WHAT outside?!!

High noon at the OK corral

It was getting close to the lunch hour when our branch manager came out and made this statement: "I'm locking the place down. No one leaves for lunch."

What the hell? Me and my gut had great plans involving a rendevous with a sultry foot long spicy italian sub... Why, then?

"Because there is a running gunfight between Richardson Police and a group of Bank Robbers with assault rifles and high capacity magazines on the next block. They have already carjacked three people trying to get away. They've already shot up three police cruisers too."

So THAT was the noise. At this news several people (snicker) walked straight out to their vehicles and, you guessed it, got 'Heavy'. And they were all mine. I love it. I'm beginning to love this state. "Hey, guys. I can turn a blind eye to the pistols, say, is that a Sig? If I can't see 'em, they're not there, in my book, but a DEER RIFLE?! " ..."wait a minute, these guys may have body armor ...bring in the deer rifle." Hehehehehe

Watching the report on the news, they showed footage of the area where this fight took place, from the air, and LBG's Company's Campus was near the center of the shot. Woa! We work that close together . If he got trigger time or shot at instead, I would never live it down.

The gunfight ended up traveling north into Plano, where these guys lit Plano P.D. up too, and then they got away. They were able to disable all pursuer's patrol vehicles with rifle fire and flee out of sight. Told you something would happen while the house was empty. There are still police helos heard overhead right now over every city north of Dallas.

Shucks, we were hoping for trigger time...

2 Comments:

Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

...and here is the sad thing. P.P.D. and R.P.D. were up against it with MP-5's, which is now a standard weapon system for every unit. So it was 9mm pistol rounds against 7.62x23mm rifle rounds. The evidence of these guys flight took them to Wylie so they're in East Texas now. Kinda wish they would have run in to all us knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, move our lips when we read, Bubbas. When the boss of the whole place has a mounted BigHorn Sheep head in his office with the arrow he used to take it down resting on the horns, you know these guys wouldn't have a chance. Last news report speculated that this was a crew that is responsible for 60 bank robberies here over 2 years. Now that would have been a trophy. "Say, can I have their heads. I'll fill them with sawdust and mount them on some cherry wood..."

November 4, 2004 at 9:35 PM  
Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

Err?

November 6, 2004 at 2:00 PM  

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