Waking Up to a Police Standoff

It's not every morning you have to have to call in late to work because the police wont let you leave your house...

Typical Thursday morning, and I have two alarms set.  One for 6:00AM and one for 6:15AM.

My 6AM alarm went off and instead of hitting snooze I had the feeling that I should just get up.  I stood up, looked out the window, and was greeted with the sight of about 15 cop cars parked outside of my house.  Not only did they line each side of the street (where other cars aren't parked) but they were parked in the middle too; so nothing can get through.

My first though: Oh no, what did the neighbors downstairs do?

Photo from KSL, yes this is in front of my house (ish)

I ran and knocked on the roommate's bedroom door. Did you see all those cop cars?!?! What on earth is happening?

I ran to throw some pants on just as the roommate turned on the news just in time to catch the tail end of a report saying there was a hostage situation and they were asking all residents to stay in their homes unless the police decided to evacuate.  I looked out the window in time to see a swat team of about ten men run down the street. WTF?  Evacuate?  Is there a bomb?!?!

Swat guy gearing up this morning.  Photo from KSL

Seeing as there was a threat of evacuation, the roommate called Julie next door and woke her up to tell her the story in case we needed to leave.  I decided to hold off on my morning shower so I didn't get evacuated while naked, and called my boss to let him know that I would most likely be late.  He lives down the street and had seen the cop cars go by.

We peaked out the window and watch as swat members hid on our lawn behind the neighbors SUV.  That's about the time we decided we probably shouldn't be sitting in the window. The roommate made a pot of coffee, I grabbed a cup and sat down with some toast as we watched the news and waited for an update.

Photo from KSL.

It was more exciting than scary really.  I've never been so close to a police standoff, (Josh has, he lived in Ogden for many years-LOL!) and it ended well.  Apparently it had been going on since 4AM when his girlfriend fled the house with headwounds and called the cops.  He took another female family member hostage, and the swat team was able to tazer him around 8AM and get away without anyone else getting hurt.

So that made for a rather interesting morning today! Haha!