Cops: Hutchinson
So evidently Hutchinson is becoming something of a police state. We were told it was a pretty quite little town when we moved here, but we've had some serious problems lately. Here's a recap of the last week or so:
On Thursday, luckily we were on our way to Indiana, because there was a standoff about 4 blocks away from our apartment. Apparently police had reason to believe a parole violator was in on of the apartments nearby and spent five hours trying to get him out. They had blocked of a 6 block radius in all directions, which would have included our apartment, so we wouldn't have been able to get home. The ordeal ended with broken windows and teargas... and no sign of the guy they were looking for. I posted his picture, in case you see him somewhere around the world.
Then, yesterday, we had a bomb threat and hostage situation at the grocery store we shop at. It was apparently part of a larger scheme that is happening all across the country. You'll have to read the story if you want a lot of details, because I'm not repeating them all, but it involves phone calls, nudity, bombs, money, and cutting off fingers. Not a bad movie plot.
So, what could possibly happen today to continue the story? Another call came into another Dillon's grocery store that's about two blocks away from my office! Same story, but they got people out of there pretty fast this time. They closed the street down for a while and then it was all over. But, some goobers in town thought it would be funny to call Wal-Mart and a couple other grocery stores in town and make bomb threats. They did it with their cell phone, and police caught them later this evening. There were about six of them and they all had outstanding warrants.
