Police activity = entertainment for 3 year olds

Yesterday, somebody ran from the police in our neighborhood. No idea what he did, or why he was in this area. The police were not forthcoming, and we haven't found anything in the news about it yet.

However, it did end up being good fun for the girls. There were three police cars parked around our house, and one had a police dog. There were at least a dozen police up and down the streets doing searches which makes for good breakfast entertainment. They did ask us to be sure all our doors and windows were closed and locked, and then they came in the backyard to look around (as they did for all the houses in the neighborhood.) The girls thought that was funny.

Eventually they moved off to the next block, and we were back to our day to day routine.

Carpool Lane Checks

This morning as I was getting on 101 from a carpool on-ramp I noticed a police officer standing by the metering light and thought it was kind of odd. He appeared to be checking vehicles, so I just thought he must be looking for a fugitive. Nope. He was looking for solo riders in the carpool lane. The guy 2 cars ahead of me did not have a rider with him, so the officer waved him over to the side of the road, then proceeded to walk across right in front of the other cars getting on the ramp and pulled out his ticket book as he approached the car he had waved over.