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Rt 66 closed. Just ran up to store and was helicopter circling the store parking lot.
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Not something you want to walk into. I just missed walking into an armed holdup of my bank last year by about 15 minutes. Police were just getting out when I arrived to cash a check. Needless to say, I came back the next day.
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Pleased to learn it ended with the morons in custody.
Not a bank, but a drive-thru "Beverage Castle" we would frequent. State Fair was under way. Not to cast aspersions on the folks who run those venues but it seems to attract a certain bunch of ne'er-do-well types as followers. We stopped one evening to get my usual one liter Canada Dry Ginger Ale, asked the employee for it and was told they were "out of that just now". There was one guy on foot standing at a cooler a few yards away, kind of "milling around" with hands in pockets. Not odd to see someone on foot in the place, though. I asked for a Vernor's substitute and as he handed it to me, in a low voice the attendant said: "We're being robbed". I paid, winked acknowledgement, thanked him and left (in the MGB, BTW). We drove to the fairground entrance a few hundred yards away, where I knew a State Trooper was monitoring entrance traffic and told him of the situation. Response was quick, the perp was caught running into a pasture behind the business and the attendant was unharmed. But the adrenaline rush and the effort to "keep calm" so as not to arouse the robber's suspicion put me into that aforementioned OODA Loop. Was I "carrying"? Yes. Was the situation one to allow advantage? No. And we got "free" ginger ale a couple times after that.
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State Police arrest suspects in shooting of officer in East Mountains
Couple, arrested after being tracked to a home in Torrance County, face multiple charges in incident injuring lieutenant
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Yea, nice looking couple.State Police arrest suspects in shooting of officer in East Mountains
Couple, arrested after being tracked to a home in Torrance County, face multiple charges in incident injuring lieutenantwww.abqjournal.com
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Yesterday some homeless guy went on a stabbing rampage. Started on Central Avenue downtown and proceeded east on central all the way to Wyoming (a few miles). He was randomly stabbing people (11 in total). Two are in critical condition. Fortunately the police caught up with him and were able to apprehend.
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There seems to be more and more of that stuff occurring across the country, would never occur to me to do anything like that to someone else.
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Well, isn't this a fine how do you do. I just got a text message a few minutes ago from a retired cop friend of mine - he informed me there was a shootout of some sort at the Sheriff's office in town. Don't have any details yet other than the perp has assumed room temperature and luckily no cops injured. Hoping to learn more on the 10 O'clock news.
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Heard here it was a stabbing. I hadn't followed through looking for other accounts.
Crazy times.