Wednesday, September 3, 2008
An interesting lunch with a S.W.A.T. team in my house
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 
I am fortunate enough to be able to run home to see our dog and have some lunch during the work week. Today, leaving the house I saw a slew of S.W.A.T. members and police walking the streets, some in camo and others in the traditional black. All with bullet-proof vests. AR-15s, sidearms, and shotguns. Two helicopters flying low over the neighborhood, looking for something. WTF?
I asked one of the members what was going on and was told they are looking for a 53-year old man armed with a knife who was suicidal. He lives at the far end of the street we're on (roughly a half-mile away). I thought I had seen something fly through our backyard earlier, but of course I just thought it was a kid or something. I had no idea what was happening outside. So I put it together and made sure they checked the house.
I had a team sweep our entire house which turned up nothing (thankfully) and they checked the backyard. We have about an acre of protected land behind our house and maybe the guy was laying low in there. It's thick back there and would be a decent place to hide. They have canine units and were going to run through there later.
It seems like a lot of firepower for some guy who is suicidal, I wonder if he tried to take a hostage or wants to, or ?I hope they find this guy and that he doesn't harm himself or anyone else. They even locked the local schools down. Looks like I have to run my own sweep when I get home from work.
This is nuts.
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