HOSTAGE

So if you're my friend you might have heard that there was a "hostage situation" at my apartment complex. Thats the way we do it at the manor. It was some pretty crazy stuff. Mike Brown and I were sitting in my apartment doing Mad Libs and watching a live Rush dvd that Matt left on. I heard four loud bangs like someone angrily knocking on a door, and then a couple of seconds later my roommate matt walked in with a weird look on his face. 

"Did you guys hear any fighting or anything like that downstairs?"

"no, what's up?"

"Well there's like 10 cops downstairs about to bust into the apartment." (the one directly below us)

So of course I stepped outside to see what was going on. I looked down over the balcony to see several police officers. One of them yelled at me to go back inside until they had everything resolved, another asked if I had heard any fighting coming from the apartment below us, I answered that I hadn't.

So we went back inside and waited for things to cool off, go out on the patio and peaking out the windows from time to time to try to see what was going on. Someone knocked on our door and upon opening an officer asked to come in. She asked us again if we had heard fighting, and we told her no, not today, but explained that we had heard the couple fight on several occasions before. She thanked us and left. We assumed that the situation was over and after a couple of minutes stepped outside to investigate. We were immediately welcomed by an officer telling us to step back inside and warning us not to go out on the patio again. 

So we waited inside and wondered. A half hour or so passed before we heard a voice on a loud speaker.

"Sir we have reason to believe you are holding your girlfriend hostage, and maybe the children too. We're going to call you on your Cell phone."

Shocked we looked out our windows and balcony to see what was happening. We found the apartment to be surrounded by cops (15-20 of them) hiding in the bushes with guns drawn, assault rifles and such. Again, we heard the loud speaker. 

"You didn't answer your cell phone, its possible that we have the wrong number, if you're not getting our calls I urge you to call 911 and talk to us. We're not leaving. The best thing you can do is talk to us."

We waited inside for probably another 45 minutes. Then started looking around again. We couldn't see any of the cops in the bushes, so curiously and cautiously we stepped outside one more to investigate. The cops were gone and there was no sign of them. We don't know what exactly happened other than that the problem must've been resolved.