I helped catch a robber :-)

[seeker5]

Tonight, or rather this morning, I decided to take a walk outside at 2:30am.

I saw an SUV pull up into a parking space. I went on walking, and 5 minutes late, a cop car came around driving around the apartment complex. A minute later, the cop car came to me. He asked me if I had seen a couple, or a Jeep. I told him, no, but that I had seen an SUV park and told him where it was - it was in a really far out back area of the apartment complex.

Turns out, that was the SUV he was looking for. The couple he was looking for had robbed a gas station by taking the cashier and pushing her to the ground while robbing the store. When the cop got to the SUV in the parking lot, the couple tried to run away. The guy got into a fight with the officer and the officer eventually subdued him with the tazer. Later, when the cop asked me to come over, I saw the cop with blood over his hand, and I saw the guy later on and he had blood over his leg. While the guy was fighting the cop, the girl went into the SUV, pulled out rapidly, banged a car that was parked and ran away and I saw her storm away rapidly. The parked car she banged was probably still drivable, but the back of it was really messed up and dented with the taillights all broken.

The cop asked me to stay to fill out a statement so I did. The cop was quite happy I had guided him to the SUV I saw, I had been the only one outside that night. So, this was an interesting walk tonight!

At one point they took the guy the cop caught out of the car for a moment, and I got a chance to see the guy's face - it's one of my new neighbor! I know him, we've had a few conversations this past week! Just a few days ago he invited me to have beer with him...! I didn't do it because I had other plans that night, but I've been meaning to take him up on his offer and go hang out with him. I guess I'll avoid that for now.

[Dan.Linehan]

Man, that's rough. Always weird to get caught in the midst of that sort of thing firsthand.

Nice job filling out a statement!

[{aspiring_to_clarity}]

Yeah, stuff like that is crazy.

Once my brother and I were driving and we stopped at a light. On the cross street, this girl speeds up to the stoplight in the turn lane. A car speeds up behind her and the guy gets out, stomps up to her window and smashes it in, hitting her with his fist!

We pulled over and called the cops, but the guy sped off. Don't know if they got him.

Anyway, glad you helped. Lots of people just go in and shut their doors.