winterbadger | oh, that's going to be on the police blotter for sure

I was just going to bed, about fifteen minutes ago, when,

I would guess

maybe 2-4 blocks away

*CRACK*

then, right outside my window, a siren lights up and a police car (I didn't see it, don't know if it was marked or unmarked, must just have been sitting in our street, ?waiting?) zooms down the street to the corner and out onto the through street

then, maybe a little further away (or smaller caliber)

*crack-crack-crack-crack-crack*

more sirens, more highspeed cars

some squealing tires

lots more sirens, running, then shutting off

I can hear sirens from *long* ways away now coming into the area.

Now it's all gone quiet.

Now dogs barking, and manual sirens.

Now quiet again.

I'm going to guess that local law enforcement was expecting something, goodness knows what, to go down tonight, only maybe it didn't get handled quite as neatly as they expected. A little bit of Season One of The Wire right here in Langley Park.

I was going to say I hope no one got hit. But just as I was finishing this, I heard what is definitely an ambo siren. Now several, heading down the through street to Adventist.

Like the song says, "someone's going to emergency/someone's going to jail." :-(