SWAT standoff update

Eventually we got evacuated since we were 'in the line of fire'. As we were leaving the negotiations had moved on to "Walter, lets not make this difficult like last time, we don't want to be here for 10 hours again"

So, Walter broke his record, since it took 11 hours this time!

These photos (1, 2) are from the San Diego NBC site and show what a spectacle this whole thing became. We just spent the day surfing and reading at Brian's.

Apart from the fact that we were without our car for all this, and kept out of our house for nearly 12hours, we were pretty shocked by the actions of the Police. When we returned to the house, there were half drank drinks on top of our car along with leftover candy and ration packs. Also strewn around were bits of food (which of course Macy ate a few days later and then threw up on our bed). But worse than all this was the state that they left the poor womans home in after extracting Walter. The windows were all smashed in and the door hanging off its hinges, and they just left it like that with no security or anything. The family were there the next morning trying to patch things up and take care of the cats and birds, which I suspect were a little freaked out after seeing their owner beaten with a hammer one day and then tear gassed and flash bombed the next!

Not so much America's finest in my eyes.