Some brilliant functionary decided that it would be nice to give our local prison inmates a holiday at the fair. At the end of the day, they’re missing one, sort of a Hannibal Lecter type, far out of touch with reality, to hear the local news guys, and probably off his meds. He just sort of walked away from the fairgrounds. Apparently his voices tell him to do very bad things.<\/p>\n
Now we have a chopper with a spotlight circling across the street, and probably every police car in Spokane having screamed its way down our arterial, and you have to feel sort of sorry for the guy who does not live on this planet, and for the cops, who are having to forge through undergrowth, probably down to the Spokane river, in pursuit of a guy whose major recent offense was getting lost at the fair, but who is in for life for his safety and ours. This is not a good situation. We have decided perhaps it’s a good night to shut and lock the windows, and to remain just a little on the alert.<\/p>\n
Though if the chase heads for the river, it may have a bad ending. The river is white water, and not one friendly to swimmers, especially at night, and in this season, when the water is getting colder.<\/p>\n
Bad situation.<\/p>\n
Trust however\u00a0we’ll stay safe, but, yep, there comes the chopper and its searchlight on another loop. There must be five squad cars down the hill. They were passing us at the rate of one a minute.<\/p>\n
Update: well, it turns out they are not hunting the crazy person. They are hunting a man with a gun who committed an armed robbery about 2 blocks from us, and he is still on the run, with the chopper still circling. With luck, he and the walkaway guy will meet out there in the woods.<\/p>\n
I’m for bed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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