In the wee hours of Saturday morning, I was up writing a blog post.
I got distracted by a helicopter flying around outside.
It circled for a long time. It was loud enough that I'm amazed (but pleased, because she needs all the sleep she can get) that it didn't wake Laura up.
Eventually, I got out and filmed about 10 minutes worth of video. It turned out almost all black, though there are places you can make out some sorts of bright spots (from something that looked like either an ambulance or fire truck).. But you can hear the chopper.
I speculated a bit about what it might have been. It circled around for far too long to be a Flight For Life. I didn't see anything like search lights. We live pretty close to a tiny airstrip that houses a lot of personal and experimental flying vehicles, but it was way too late to be someone random just joy-riding.
As I'm writing this (in the wee hours of Sunday morning), it's back.
I don't have any idea what's going on out there now.
Somehow or other, Laura found out about it after the fact. She took Mal somewhere on Saturday morning. (Sidenote: I think that one of home-schooling's other benefits is that it makes you immune to viruses). Maybe people there were talking about it. She mentioned seeing posts asking about it on nextdoor.com, so maybe that's where she picked it up.
However she ran across the information, she eventually tracked down the basic story:
For some reason, police chased someone down 1431. Whoever it was took a left at our wide spot in the road. They wound up at our lakeside park. They spun around to try to get back out, but cops had already blocked both exits.
So whoever it was made the only possible rational decision: they drove the car into the lake, then swam across.
The helicopter was the cops continuing the pursuit.
Apparently, whoever it was got away clean. But they did pull the vehicle out of the lake this afternoon. So maybe they'll get some clues there.
Maybe whoever it was did something really and truly awful. Until I find out why the chase started in the first place, I'm rooting for the escapee.
😀
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