Taking all guesses - why is a SWAT team sealing my street?

[stefania4]

I came home from work and two SWAT cars and some police dogs were at the base of my street. I was ready to just go kill some time at the bookstore, but they looked over my car and let me through - then immediately blocked the entrance again.

They've been there over 30 minutes, engines running. Taking any and all guesses! I have no idea if there are cars further down the street - I'm not freaked out, but I'm also not going to wander around outdoors unnecessarily.

[colleency]

Looking for a black hat.

[funnybone]

Maybe the runaway bride moved to your area of Atlanta now that her fiance kicked her to the curb and they are looking for signs of her. :D

[KristiB]

Could be any number of things. My uneducated guess is that with the dogs it's either a drug bust or a fugitive.

Anyhoo let us know when you find out and stay inside!

[sage]

Someone had posted recently on one of the "kid" threads---wobblers maybe? That this had happened recently to her when she went to pick up her kid from a home-based daycare. Street blocked off---SWAT team called in---it was a cyber crime (someone downloading porn) at a residence.

I can't remember what city it was in---but I would never have guessed they would block the street and call out SWAT for a cyber crime bust...

Guess it could be anything really. You'd hope they'd give you any pertinent details (like "stay in your house") if it wasn't safe for you to move around when they stopped folks to search their cars...

[Hammster]

Maybe it's on the news??

[stefania4]

I have the news on, but I figured they'd only say something after whatever was (possibly) going on was over.

There was a helicopter that flew much closer than most, and they were gone. We did talk to our state house rep a while ago about our concerns that there was a drug lab on the street, so it may have been something with that. At any rate, with it being 93 degrees outside it's not like I was hoping to hang out in the front yard, anyway!

*Since we live close to two highways, there are often helicopters overhead for traffic reporting.

[Rae]

That happened to me a few years ago too. I came home from work at 8:30pm and found my street blocked off and a SWAT team in my front yard. An officer stopped me, asked me if I lived there and told me "It's all over, go on in." OK. I went into my big huge house where I lived alone, called everyone I knew to tell them about the SWAT team and then popped some popcorn and turned on the news only to hear the jaw-dropping top story "Masked Gun Man Goes Unapprehended..." UGHHHHHHH!!! I grabbed my purse and fled to a friend's for the night.

Turns out it was all a hoax! Some neighbor kids with more time than sense, told their mom that they saw a man wearing a mask point a gun at them through the window of the house two doors down from mine. They admitted they made it all up the next day and had to pay restitution for police time, etc.

[Aubergine]

why not call the local police station and ask? whenever i see something worrisome in my neighborhood, that's what i do. esp. in a situation like that, where my own/family's safety might be involved...just a thought.

[sugarbaby]

Maybe the runaway bride moved to your area of Atlanta now that her fiance kicked her to the curb and they are looking for signs of her. :D

HA-HA!!!! This made me chuckle! I'm from Albuquerque where A) the runaway bride ended up because she ran out of money and B) there seems to be a SWAT situation here at least once a month! The first 4 months I lived here I was in shock at all the SWAT situations! I feel your pain stefania4!

sugarbaby

[mbrogier]

With the info you gave about suspecting a drug lab in your neighborhood, that's probably what it is.

If I encountered swat teams on my street, I'd probably go out to eat and then watch a movie out or something until it was over. Most do end peacefully, but if shots were fired, I don't want to worry about being in range. A drug lab would be the one that would worry me the most because those guys have the most to lose.

[gabbyh]

Well...we had the same situation Friday Evening...and I have a bullet on my bookshelf as evidence :D

I was JUST sitting my butt in a chair with a nice glass of red wine and I hear this LOUD sound outside....we run to the front door and see a helicopter circling our house, very low...then we hear POP POP POP...my husband says: "hmmmm, that's gun-fire"...and pushes me to the floor....we crawl to the bathroom, as the one whole side of the house is windows, and these bullets sounded VERY close...

I call 911 and was told: "the Sheriff's dept is in pursuit of an armed suspect in your neighborhood, stay inside!"...oh my! so we stayed in the bathroom till it was quiet...but I was freaking out, as our front door was unlocked...I could picture this guy running up the street and in our house...well, bottom line is we had CSI Delray on our street, and they shot and killed him at the corner...seems he was shooting out the car window with a machine gun, and had driven all the way down I-95 from WPB doing this...now his family is claiming "police brutality" :rolleyes:

My Friday night excitement...so I say look for bullets :cool:

~Gail

[stefania4]

Wow, Gabby! What an adventure!

I did consider moving along and just going to hang out at the bookstore, but the dogs had been inside ALL day and really needed to be taken outside. We went out the back door, they were quick, and we came right back in.

It was actually the second day in a row of drama on the street. Two days ago I came home and saw fire trucks and ambulances; 3-car accident, SUV hit a light pole, light pole came crashing down, etc. Maybe the 'burbs don't sound so bad after all...

[Chefzhat]

Did you ever figure it out? Maybe they did bust the lab down the street!

[mbrogier]

I'm also wondering if you figured out if it was the lab--I'm guessing meth lab?

Gabby, I'm so glad you're ok. Machine gun fire is very hazardous because the bullets can travel so far. You were smart to stay in the bathroom. I guess the bullet was a casing you found outside and not one you pulled out of your house, right? :o

[KristiB]

Machine gun fire! :eek:

Glad you're ok!!!!

[Laura B]

OMG, Gabby! That is terrifying. I shudder just thinking about it.

[tbb113]

It was actually the second day in a row of drama on the street. Two days ago I came home and saw fire trucks and ambulances; 3-car accident, SUV hit a light pole, light pole came crashing down, etc. Maybe the 'burbs don't sound so bad after all...

Didn't have the accident in the 'burbs since I lived on a dead-end street, but we did have the largest meth lab bust in the county a few years ago. Guess there is excitment everywhere

Gabby - glad that you were okay. How frightening!

[Debss]

SWAT team was in our condo complex once. I went to take the dog out & as an officer ran by me he briskly said to stay inside maam. so I did :-) Turns out an ederly woman has being held at gunpoint by her drugged out daughter looking for $$$$$$$ Everything ended calmly & they arrested the daughter & the ederly woman was fine but it was nerve wrecking for several hours.

[Robyn1007]

:eek: :eek: :eek: Gail! Oh, my, I'm so glad you are okay!

Stefania, please update us, let us know what happened.

[LakeMartinGal]

It was actually the second day in a row of drama on the street. Two days ago I came home and saw fire trucks and ambulances; 3-car accident, SUV hit a light pole, light pole came crashing down, etc. Maybe the 'burbs don't sound so bad after all...
Could be time to move... not that bad things don't happen everywhere! We live in a very rural area, and the local Sheriff says we have as much crime per capita as anywhere else... just fewer 'capitas'. ;)

[Wendy w]

Wow Gail, what an adventure. I'm glad you're ok. Yes, the 'burbs seem kind of boring at times, but at least they can be safer.

[Canice]

Terrifying, Gail! And I can totally imagine visions of that unlocked door racing through your mind. :eek:

I can only imagine, LakeMartinGal: The stories on meth labs in the rural south are awful. I mean, they're awful everywhere, but it seems to have become a cottage industry in certain areas. Somehow "meth lab" doesn't have the folksy charm of "moonshine" does it? :rolleyes:

[LakeMartinGal]

I can only imagine, LakeMartinGal: The stories on meth labs in the rural south are awful. I mean, they're awful everywhere, but it seems to have become a cottage industry in certain areas. Somehow "meth lab" doesn't have the folksy charm of "moonshine" does it? :rolleyes:
LOL, no, it doesn't! One of our firemen was called to a fire in another district -- a woods fire. When they got out into the woods, they saw immense greenery, with a perfect circle cut into the tree canopy... and the plants were marijuana! He'd never seen it "green" before... :rolleyes: ;) :eek:

[colleency]

Every time I read this, I keep thinking it says, "why is a SWAT team stealing my street?"

[fancyn]

Someone had posted recently on one of the "kid" threads---wobblers maybe? That this had happened recently to her when she went to pick up her kid from a home-based daycare. Street blocked off---SWAT team called in---it was a cyber crime (someone downloading porn) at a residence.

I can't remember what city it was in---but I would never have guessed they would block the street and call out SWAT for a cyber crime bust...

Guess it could be anything really. You'd hope they'd give you any pertinent details (like "stay in your house") if it wasn't safe for you to move around when they stopped folks to search their cars...
Uh...that be me I should admit! :rolleyes: Read about it here (http://community.cookinglight.com/showpost.php?p=1036221&postcount=14) Super scary stuff!!! DBF directed me to this thread. Scared the living sh!t out of me - Parked my car in the middle of the street and just ran for the house.

Stefania4, I hope everything is okay. I'm sure everything is under wraps now...

[Aubergine]

wierdly enuf, something similar just happened here yesterday. i dunno if it hit the nat'l news, but a guy (on trial for sexual assault of his stepdaughter and another 14-y-o) killed his wife and 2 kids, ages 7 and 12, and then himself. :(

quiet rural road nearby, which we traverse almost daily, and then couldn't get through b/c of the slaughter.

"shock" doesn't begin to describe it. himself, ok (so to speak). his wife, no real opinion on that right now.

the children--UNSPEAKABLE.

and we just had a local cop shoot his wife....

life is spinning so out of control crazy in this day and age...altho' part of me knows that some humans have long been like this, it goes back to the beginning of time.

but when it's down the street, and 2 innocent children...

we've been going back-and-forth: evil, insane, or both? and, isn't evil a manifestation of insanity?

[gabbyh]

..... I guess the bullet was a casing you found outside and not one you pulled out of your house, right? :o

I wish...it was a bullet from a police revolver that hit a metal dumpster setting about 20 ft from our house and bounced off...they're building a new house next store...and it is right in front of the window where I was sitting :rolleyes:

~Gail

[jmarie]

So, what happened? Did you ever hear?
Curious minds want to know! :D
joyce