[Microblogging] Today's adventures in being outside

[kjorteo]

*Approaches street corner where the nearby Pokemon Go gym is, because it's there and vulnerable*

*What appears to be the tail end of a police chase ensues; a car comes spilling out of that intersection and the immediately pulls over, flanked by four or five police cars who do the same. Sirens are blaring. One officer gets out of his car, draws and points his weapon at the non-officer car, and starts barking orders at its driver*

Me: O_O



You know, now that I really stop and think about it, maybe I didn't need the extra coins and gym experience that badly.

Comments

[chalcedony_starlings]

“Aha! It's there and vulnerable! Maybe I should be there and vulnerable too!”

“… or maybe not. How about not. @..@”

[kjorteo]

Never in my life have I had a faster "Okay, see this situation happening over there? I should turn around and proceed in a direction that is not over there" reaction.

[xyzzysqrl]

I get edgy moms, you get a police chase.

Are you in The Goonies RIGHT NOW? Is that what's happening here?

...I want to be Mouth in this analogy but I know I am Chunk and embrace it.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Yeah, that seems like it was probably the right call. O_o;

[penguinmayhem]

"But only the guilty run!"

Said some hypothetical person who has never witnessed an actual police stand-off occur in front of them before.

[kjorteo]

Even if I wasn't afraid of the police deciding that being in the wrong place at the wrong time is now a crime (and bear in mind that I live in one of those cities whose cops are trigger-happy enough to have made national news before,) all it would have taken was the suspect deciding not to go quietly, and I would have found myself in close physical proximity to an actual firefight. This is, shall we say, not an ideal situation to be in, regardless of one's guilt or innocence.

(Fortunately, nothing like that happened though.)

I didn't run, because I wasn't quite close enough for anyone on either side of the exchange to look over and notice me, and I kind of wanted to keep it that way. But I definitely turned around and very briskly walked right back the way I came like I was a Last Unicorn character escaping the harpy Celaeno.