My super exciting afternoon....

This is going to be a long story because well I enjoy telling long stories....Yesterday started out as my normal Wednesday, breakfast, hang out with Zada, play, eat lunch and walk to school... On Wednesdays when I drop Zada off at school I continue on my 3 mile walk through the pathways near our house. These pathways are fantasitc because they run through the neighborhood and you don't have to worry about crossing a lot of streets, except for one. Normally the only vehicals I see on the streets are the city buses, not yesterday. I get ready to cross the street and I see 2 cars speeding towards me so I stop. I wait. Just before they were to get to me they both turned down a side street... My first thought was wow that car must have cut off that SUV. THEN just as I try my second attempt at crossing the street another car comes blazing at me.. I"m thinking what is going on!! The car passes me... so I try again and I look and the car that just blazed by me is going by me again and squeals her brakes when she gets to that street. This time I just stop and watch. The SUV and the Car begin to exit the side street but now the SUV has blocked the car. The guy in the SUV gets out. I'm still in my head thinking oh my this MUST be some serious road rage. This guy is going to be that kid in the car... THEN!!! The kid exits his car on the passengers side and starts to run!

In my head I thought, wow I had better watch where that kid is going and remember what he's wearing. With that a cop car comes blazing down the street... me and another bystander wave him down that he went down the pathways.. the cop drives on the (non-road) pathways. Then another cop car... I finally feel safe to cross the street and carry on. As I cross another car stops and 2 undercover cops get out.

As I begin walking I see the cop car and 4 cops kind standing looking around.. so I say, he do you guys need a discription of the guy.. and the one cop is like yeah and then another cop says, wait is this the guy you saw? He had the kid pushed up on the cop car like you see in the movies! I kind of laugh and say no that isn't him. The cop looks at me and is like are you sure.. I said yeah the guy that was running was BLACK. This guy was WHITE!!!! omg You have never seen cops take off so fast! Needless to say I talked to the entire Ottawa police department on hot pursuit for this guy!

It was really crazy when one of the cops stopped and asked if I had seen anything.. I said oh yeah I had seen everything go down and even the one guy that found. He said oh was that not him! I said umm not the guy I saw was black and I gave him my description... he said oh thanks! lol

When I told James about my adventure he was in shock, he said in his 30 years of living in Ottawa he has NEVER seen something like that. From what I heard was there was 3 guys stealing cars, the cops had 2 of them and this one took off...


Just another day as a Stay-at-home Mom!!!