This doesn't really have anything to do with the forum, besides the fact was reading it while this happened, I just thought it was rather catchy ;)

So, last night, I was up sewing, chatting, etc...when there was the most horrific noise. A number of things crossed my mind: #1-Someone is stealing the school's garbage can (I live near an elementaty school), #2-An airplane had crashed at the school, and #3-it wss the second coming. Okay, the last two are very unreasonable..but they did occur to me for about 1/30th of a second, probably due to the fact it was very late at night.
Next thing I knew, my father was yelling at me to get off the telephone so he could call the cops. I went and heard him tell the police that someone in a pick-up truck had just driven through our fence.
So, we went outside to investigate, and the whole neighbourhood (well, apprx. 8 of us. . .) was there. One of the families had seen it, and told us what had happened.
The street that we live on runs E-W, and there is a large hill with a road on it perpindicular to it. It is no a street that runs all the way through, it stops at the intersection. Instead of a road, there is my house and an elementary school. They said that the person was driving very fast and didn't stop at the stop sign. Then he swerved onto our front lawn, drove through the fence, ripped off 30 feet (!!) of it, flipped around and drove away.
The police were there immediatly. The canine unit was there first, then severel police cars, a bike police officer, and the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). They looked at the tire marks, I believe they took some pictures (atlest someone was walking around with a camera), and found chunks of the person's tires on our lawn.
Very, very exciting. We all went back home after offering statements (only the eye witnesses, my father and the family up the street)...and that's all we know. We don't know if they've caught someone, or anything. Bah. All I know was that the police were flashing their lights, flashing flashlights, and making lots of visual pollution...and they were about 10 feet away from the window that leads into my bedroom. *sigh*
Craziness.
Tess